The Ocean City Nor’easters have taken a huge step forward in their attempts to improve the quality of soccer being played at Carey Stadium in the summer as they are now being operated by a nonprofit corporation, Ocean City Nor’easters Soccer, Inc. The Nor’easters purpose is to educate and promote the game of soccer throughout Ocean City and the southern New Jersey community, while providing affordable family entertainment. This move was led by club President Giancarlo Granese and South Jersey Pro Soccer General Manager Neil Holloway. The change in structure allows the Nor'easters to help the community in many more ways and to serve the people of Ocean City that host them with such great support.

Former Ocean City Nor’easters forward, Steven Miller, was selected in the MLS Supplemental Draft by Montreal Impact. Montreal Impact is Major League Soccer’s newest franchise starting their inaugural season at Vancouver Whitecaps on March 10.

Coach Oswald and his staff were impressed with the turnout of the tryout they held on January 7th and 8th as the Nor’easters look to finalize both their PDL and U20 squad for the 2012 season.

Bloomfield College senior forward Terry Gibbs has been selected the 2011 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) men's soccer Player of the Year, as the All-Conference team was released Monday. The 12 CACC head coaches conducted the voting and saw Terry Gibbs as the standout player of the season, this award goes alongside the 2 Conference Player of the Week awards he picked up along the way.

Rutgers-Camden dominates All-NJAC honors, heads into NJAC semifinals

The Rutgers University-Camden Scarlet Raptors are reaping the rewards for the first regular-season New Jersey Athletic Conference men’s soccer crown in program history.

Nor’easters Head Coach Tim Oswald has wasted no time in putting together his 2012 Premier Development League team. The Ocean City Nor’easters have come off the back of a disappointing 2011 but the appointment of a new coach has led to a momentum shift throughout the whole organisation. Coach Oswald has now appointed two new assistants to the PDL team, Kevin Nuss and Billy Pinto. The new coaching trio will oversee the development of the PDL players as well U20 Men’s team, the plan is to bring the two teams closer together and have more fluidity between the teams with the U20 Men’s essentially becoming the PDL reserve team. Players performing well in the U20 Men’s will be given the chance to prove themselves at the PDL level.

The Ocean City Nor’easters are pleased to announce that Tim Oswald will become head coach of their Premier Development League team for the 2012 season. A backroom staff reshuffle see’s former head coach Neil Holloway concentrate on his role as General Manager in an effort to further grow and expand the organization, the Nor’easters and Oswald are excited about this new era.

The season began with high hopes that the 2^nd year of the Ocean City Nor’easters would be a step forward for the franchise and 2011 certainly was that. The record improved, the young players were stepping up from the U20 Men’s team and showing that they could play at the PDL level and the crowd numbers rose. It was a season that gave hope to the future of our young Nor’easters franchise and showed that there was a lot of substance to the great style of the blue and white hoops.

You can not only get the soccer fan in your life the best gear, but you can support Ocean City FC while you do it.

If you click on THIS LINK, you will be sent to Eurosport’s home page and for every purchase you make, a portion will go to Ocean City FC. Shop ’till you drop!

The Ocean City Nor'easters bought back some of their best players to be a part of the action for the Betsy Young Scholarship Fund Game at Tennessee Avenue on Sunday 18th September. Young was a long-time music teacher at Ocean City Intermediate School who died on August 29th after battling brain cancer. The scholarship will help musicians from Ocean City High School fund college studies.

From left to right: Ocean City FC director of PDL operations, Stephen Thurlby poses with Inter Milan and Brazilian National Team star Maicon; Inter Milan players in training; Ocean City FC PDL team captain John Fletcher poses for a photo with new Inter Milan manager Rafa Benitez.

It was soccer madness this summer in the United States with not only the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but several high-profile preseason exhibition matches that were played from coast to coast. Teams like Manchester United, Real Madrid and AC Milan all came to the U.S. to prepare for the upcoming 2010/11 club season in their respective countries.

Ocean City FC was able to be involved with one of those mega-clubs, as they continue to develop a relationship with Italian giant Inter Milan. The defending European and Italian champions came to the U.S. for three full exhibition games in Los Angeles, Dallas and Baltimore and some smaller training matches against other clubs.