Results
| USA NPSL | 06/29 02:00 | 1 |
Cruizers FC
v
El Farolito 
|
W | 0-4 | |
| USA NPSL | 06/21 23:00 | 1 |
[1] El Farolito v
Bigua
[7] 
|
W | Abandoned | |
| USA NPSL | 06/15 02:00 | 1 |
[5] Sacramento Gold
v
El Farolito [1]
|
W | 0-1 | |
| USA NPSL | 06/01 02:00 | 1 |
San Leandro Utd
v
El Farolito
|
W | 0-7 | |
| USA NPSL | 05/25 02:30 | 1 |
[1] El Farolito v
California Odyssey
[6] |
W | 2-1 | |
| USA NPSL | 05/22 02:30 | - |
[1] El Farolito v
Sacramento Gold
[4]
|
W | 1-0 | |
| USA NPSL | 05/18 01:00 | 1 |
[3] Oakland Stompers
v
El Farolito [1]
|
W | 0-3 | |
| USA NPSL | 05/11 02:00 | 1 |
[4] California Odyssey
v
El Farolito [1]
|
W | 0-3 | |
| USA NPSL | 05/03 23:00 | 1 |
El Farolito v
Cruizers FC
|
W | 6-2 | |
| USA NPSL | 04/27 02:00 | 1 |
Real San Jose
v
El Farolito
|
W | 0-2 | |
| USA NPSL | 04/19 23:00 | 1 |
El Farolito v
Sacramento Gold
|
- | PPT. | |
| USA US Open Cup | 04/17 02:00 | 9 |
Sacramento Republic
v
El Farolito
|
L | 1-0 |
Stats
| Total | Home | Away | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matches played | 18 | 8 | 10 |
| Wins | 16 | 8 | 8 |
| Draws | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Losses | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Goals for | 51 | 26 | 25 |
| Goals against | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| Clean sheets | 10 | 4 | 6 |
| Failed to score | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Wikipedia - El Farolito SC
El Farolito is an amateur soccer club based in San Francisco, California. It currently plays in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), generally considered the fourth tier of U.S. Soccer, within the Golden Gate Conference. The team is best known for its 1993 U.S. Open Cup championship under its previous name, Club Deportivo (CD) Mexico.
History
The club was founded in 1985 and was first known as El Farolito, named after the owner's chain of restaurants. They played at Boxer Stadium and were a new force in the San Francisco Soccer Football League (SFSFL), where they started in the lower divisions. El Faro fielded teams with immigrant players, including former professionals, and employees of the restaurant chain. The team earned successive promotions to the top division of the SFSFL within five years.[] By the 1991–92 season, the club had won the SFSFL championship and had reached the final of the National Amateur Cup. The following season, El Faro retained the title as 'Club Deportivo Mexico'.
In 1993, San Francisco C.D. Mexico won the U.S. Open Cup, an American soccer competition open to all United States Soccer Federation (USSF) affiliated teams. The team pulled off wins against the defending tournament champion San Jose Oaks, Milwaukee Bavarian SC, before defeating United German Hungarians in the final. As U.S. Open Cup champions, C.D. Mexico qualified for the 1994 CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup and played Club Necaxa of the Mexican First Division in the quarterfinals. They lost 5–1 in San Jose.
When the California Premier Soccer Association (CPSA) was formed in 1993, CD Mexico was one of the SFSFL representatives along with Greek-American A.C., SF United, and Concordia. The CPSA was developed as a 'super league' composed of teams from the SFSFL, Peninsula Soccer League, and the San Joaquin Valley Soccer League. The team, returning to their original name El Farolito, won multiple titles over the next two and a half decades.
On November 20, 2017, El Farolito announced it would field a team in the National Premier Soccer League for the 2018 season.
On March 22, 2023, El Farolito defeated Inter San Francisco 3–0 in the first round of the 2023 U.S. Open Cup, scoring all three goals in extra time. The team lost in the second round to fellow Bay Area team Oakland Roots SC of the USL Championship.
El Farolito once again qualified for the Open Cup and defeated MLS Next Pro side Portland Timbers 2 in the first round on March 19, 2024. The reserve team was representing their parent team, the Portland Timbers of Major League Soccer, after the league had withdrawn from the U.S. Open Cup. El Farolito defeated Central Valley Fuego FC, another third-division team, but were eliminated in the third round by the Oakland Roots for the second consecutive year. El Farolito won their first NPSL championship in 2024 by defeating FC Motown, a four-time finalist, 2–1.
El Farolito have once again exceeded the expectations in the 2025 US Open Cup, beating Real Monarchs of MLS Next Pro 3-1 in the first round and Monterey Bay FC of USL Championship 2-1 in the second. And then their US Open Cup season came to a close, as they were defeated to USL Championship side Sacramento Republic in the third round on April 16th, 1-0.
Year-by-year
| Year | League | Regular Season | Playoffs | U.S. Open Cup | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Limited information available on early seasons in the San Francisco Soccer Football League | |||||
| 1991–92 | SFSFL | 1st, Major Division | did not qualify | ||
| 1992–93 | 1st, Major Division | Defeated United German-Hungarians, 5–0, in U.S. Open Cup Final | |||
| 1993–94 | No information available | ||||
| 1994–95 | |||||
| 1995–96 | 1st, Premier Division | did not qualify | |||
| 1997 | No information available | ||||
| 1998 | |||||
| 1999 | 1st, Premier Division | did not qualify | |||
| 2000 | 3rd, Premier A Division | did not qualify | |||
| 2001 | 1st, Premier Division | did not qualify | |||
| 2002 | 2nd, Premier Division | did not qualify | |||
| 2003 | 1st, Premier Division | did not qualify | |||
| 2004 | 4th, Premier Division | did not qualify | |||
| 2005 | 3rd, Premier Division | did not qualify | |||
| 2006 | 3rd, Premier Division | Semifinal | did not qualify | Lost to San Francisco Glens SC in CPSA Semifinal | |
| 2007 | 1st, Premier Division | Champions | did not qualify | Defeated San Francisco Glens SC, 4–1, in the CPSA Final | |
| 2008 | 2nd, Premier Division | Semifinals | did not qualify | Lost to Olympic Club in the CSPA Semifinal | |
| 2009 | 1st, Premier Division | Champions | did not qualify | Defeated Rosal FAS, 2–0, in the CSPA Final | |
| 2010 | did not qualify | ||||
| 2011 | 2nd, Premier Division | did not qualify | |||
| 2012 | 1st, Premier Division | Champions | did not qualify | Defeated Olympic Club, 1–0, in Cup Final | |
| 2013 | 2nd, Premier Division | Champions | did not qualify | Defeated Olympic Club, 1–0, in Cup Final | |
| 2014 | 3rd, Premier Division | Semifinals | did not qualify | Lost to Olympic Club in Cup Semifinal | |
| 2015 | 1st, Premier Division | Champions | did not qualify | Defeated Olympic Club, 1–0, in Cup Final | |
| 2016 | 2nd, Premier Division | League Final | First Qualifying Round | Lost to Olympic Club in Cup Final | |
| 2017 | 1st, Premier Division | Champions | First round | Defeated Olympic Club, 3–2, in Cup Final | |
| 2018 | NPSL | 1st, Golden Gate Conference | Regional semifinal | Disqualified | Lost to FC Mulhouse Portland in Regional semifinal |
| 2019 | 5th, Golden Gate Conference | did not qualify | Second round | ||
| 2020 | Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic | ||||
| 2021 | Finalist, Golden Gate Conference Playoffs | Golden Gate Conference did not participate in regular league play | Not held | Lost to Academica SC in conference playoffs | |
| 2022 | 2nd, Golden Gate Conference | Regional Finals | Did not qualify | Lost to Crossfire Redmond in Regional Finals | |
| 2023 | 1st, Golden Gate Conference | Regional Finals | Second round | Lost to Crossfire Redmond in Regional Finals | |
| 2024 | 1st, Golden Gate Conference | Champions | Third round | Defeated FC Motown, 2–1, in NPSL National Championship Game | |
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