BURLINGTON — Vermont Green Football Club are national champions.

The Green toppled Seattle-based Ballard FC, 2-1, in Saturday night’s United Soccer League Two championship game at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Thousands of fans turned out to the Green’s home stadium at the school, Virtue Field, to watch the team cap off its undefeated 2025 season with its first-ever national-level prize.

United Soccer League Two is a semi-professional, summertime competition made up largely of collegiate players. It has about 150 total teams across the country.

“Unbelievable. Unreal,” Maxi Kissel, the forward who scored the Green’s go-ahead second goal, said after the match ended. He was surrounded by at least a dozen kids, all clad in Vermont Green merchandise, who had run onto the field to

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