The Independent Supporters Council is a collective that is here to promote supporters’ culture and advocate for fair treatment of supporters, both at home and on the road. We also serve as a resource for our members to share information about supporters’ issues. There are more than 90 members of the Independent Supporters Council in the US and Canada between MLS, NWSL, USL, NPSL, UPSL, and CPL.

We EDUCATE on supporters culture, soccer, and best practices.
We SUPPORT each other to show solidarity in growing supporters culture and our teams in a way that aligns with our charter.
We ADVOCATE for supporters, home or away, to the leagues of play as a collective voice to see consistency and fairness in policy and treatment.
We COLLABORATE with our members for best practices and any other questions they may have.
We AMPLIFY the work that our member organizations do in their community to strengthen the bonds between team and town.
We SHARE our ideas for how supporters culture can evolve, include all who want to participate, and remain distinctly North American.
We STAND for and with each other whenever there are questions about our purpose, goals, tactics, or tools.

Through these actions, we seek to grow supporters culture in the United States and Canada in a positive and inclusive manner.


  1. Statement of Purpose
    The Supporters’ Council exists to:






  2. Supporters’ Bill of Rights
    The Supporters’ Council will work to ensure the rights of all home and away supporters at any stadium in the United States and Canada to:


    2. The use of all safe, legal methods of showing support, including but not limited to flags, banners, drums, instruments, overhead banners and safe pyrotechnics;


    4. Minimum league standards for the accommodation of away supporters;



  3. Council Members and Delegates

    1. A member of the ISC shall be defined as: a delegation of supporters of a soccer team playing in leagues in the US and Canada.

    2. Each team’s delegation in good standing shall have one vote on the council.

      1. If members of the team’s delegation do not agree, the vote shall be counted as an abstention.

      2. Good Standing shall be considered to be having no outstanding debt from ISC events or initiatives.

      3. For League-specific issues, only members from that league receive a vote.

    3. The Supporters’ Council has no standing budget and acts entirely through its member Supporters’ Groups and associations and volunteers. Each project sponsor supporter group or association shall be responsible for up front expenses, to be reimbursed equally from member teams’ delegations. A detailed accounting of those expenses must be made available to all members prior to reimbursement.

    4. Each Supporters’ Group or Association that has been approved for membership has the right to appoint a delegate or delegates (up to two per Supporters’ Group or Association) to the Council.





















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