Cascadian Football League

Now it may come as no surprise that since I am from the Pacific Northwest I have a certain view on political ideology. This ideology includes that of the Republic of Cascadia. I honestly believe that our way of living here in the Pacific Northwest differs greatly from that of crowded East-Coast living and has lost touch with its constituents. I believe this is similar to soccer in the United States. Consistently in Major League Soccer it can be seen that Western teams dominate the soccer scene. 14 of the 20 MLS cups have been won by western teams (as the league is arranged as of 2016); 8 of these times it was won by a team on the west coast. Recent dominance has been evident as well with most recently 9 of the last 10 MLS cups won by western teams.

Soccer seems to be the calling card for Cascadia with the teams in the region with Cascadia teams going to the playoffs 10 times since 2011 as well as winning the cup in 2015. In fact, all Cascadia teams since 2011 to 2015 have an average points per season record of 49.5. It is no doubt that Cascadia reigns, in the teams now 5 years of existence in MLS (7 for the Sounders) Cascadia teams have brought home a MLS Cup, 4 U.S. Open Cups, one Supporters Shield and a Amway Canadian Championship.

Update 2017: Make that two MLS Cups...

Largest Population Centers for Cascadian Region
City	State	Population	City	State	Population
Seattle*	Washington	3,905,026	Redding	California	241,992
Vancouver*	B. Columbia	2,463,700	Idaho Falls	Idaho	231,995
Portland*	Oregon	2,226,009	Bellingham	Washington	208,351
Boise*	Idaho	616,561	Tacoma	Washington	198,397
Santa Rosa	California	483,878	Bend*	Oregon	183,006
Spokane*	Washington	471,221	Kelowna*	B. Columbia	179,839
Surry	B. Columbia	468,251	Abbotsford*	B. Columbia	170,191
Salem*	Oregon	390,738	Vancouver	Washington	161,791
Eugene*	Oregon	351,715	Bellevue	Washington	136,426
Victoria*	B. Columbia	344,615	Eureka	California	134,827
Kennewick	Washington	268,243	Missoula	Montana	110,977
Olympia	Washington	258,332	Hillsboro	Oregon	91,611
Yakima*	Washington	243,231	Juneau	Alaska	32,556

* denotes metropolitan area

Map of the Cascadian Football League. Bl.-WA, Yel.-ID, Rd-CA, Gr.-OR

The populations in the Cascadia region are rather small, I can attest to this coming from a city of 50,000 in Oregon that was considered a middle/large city. There are many cities/towns in this region that simply number in the hundreds. But Population dosen't seem to be a issue for teams who don't have to travel too far. For example, the Premier League.

The largest town in Premier League is London with 8,173,941. Aside from the 5 London clubs in 2015-2016 the largest cities are Aston Villa in Birmingham with 1,085,810 and on average the teams aside from that run from 552,267 (Liverpool) to 91,930 (West Bromwich Albion). The same can be said for the Bundesliga they have the same trend. With a couple teams at the higher populations (Bayern Munich) 1,407,836, (Brorussia Dortmund) 575,944, with the rest (Leverkusen, Wolfsburg, Darmstadt) all around  150,000 population.

The map includes the teams/cities that I would believe that would show promise at fielding a wonderful professional team.

These statistics are based off of population, population density (that is why we see Vancouver, WA on the list and not Kelowna, BC) as well as median household income (this is due to the fact that you can't really run an entertainment business if the people can't afford to go to it.

City	Reg.	Pop.	Density	Income
Seattle	WA	3,905,026	3077/km²	$65,677
Vancouver	BC	2,463,700	5249/km²	$55,212
Portland	OR	2,226,009	1689/km²	$59,168
Boise City	ID	616,561	1033/km²	$49,182
Salem	OR	390,738	1247/km²	$45,564
Eugene	OR	351,715	1379/km²	$42,167
Victoria	BC	344,615	4109/km²	$63,570
Tri-Cities	WA	268,243	1060/km²	$51,581
Olympia	WA	258,332	1007/km²	$53,147
Yakima	WA	243,231	1294/km²	$39,746
Redding	CA	241,992	570/km²	$43,667
Idaho Falls	ID	231,995	982/km²	$51,501
Tacoma	WA	198,397	1540/km²	$50,439
Bend	OR	183,006	896/km²	$53,027
Abbotsford	BC	170,191	355/km²	$74,087
Vancouver	WA	161,791	1345/km²	$47,696
Hillsboro	OR	161,791	1480/km²	$64,943
Everett	WA	103,019	820/km²	$47,491