Oklahoma City Spirit
== Oklahoma City Spirit ==
Nickname: the Spirit, the Ghosts, Pride of Oklahoma City
Founded: 2002
Ground: Myriad Park (Capacity: 50,000)
Chairman: Messenger
Manager: Oskar Chamczyk
Division: V (five)
Series: 233
Oklahoma City Spirit Football Club is an American Hattrick soccer club based in the town of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It is one of the older, least successful clubs in Hattrick.
Oklahoma City Spirit Football Club was established in 2002 during Season 15 in Hattrick. The club was originally known as the Speedwagon Football Club of Oklahoma City, or the "Wagon", for short. The club won it's first series championship (Series V.30) in Season 17 and was promoted to Series IV.9. It then won Series IV.9 during Season 19, only to lose it's promotional playoff by a score of 3 to 1 to the Blue Lightning out of North Carolina. Following this letdown, the Speedwagon was forced to sell off many of it's star players due to financial difficulties and over the next five seasons the club drifted lower and lower in Series IV.9, slowly becoming less competitive, until they were eventually relegated to Series V.104 in Season 24.
The club officialy changed it's name to the Oklahoma City Spirit Football Club at the beginning of Season 25. According to the club, the change was conducted to make it more American and thus more appealing to surrounding neighborhoods. The club also wanted to make a fresh, new start following their first actual relegation, in order to rebuild. Finally, many fans became dismayed when they learned that the team had nothing to do with the actual late '70's rockband of the same moniker. The Spirit won Series V.104 consecutively during Season 25 and Season 26. and eventually gained promotion back to Divion IV. However, following a display of dismal performances in Series IV.20, the club was relegated again back to Division V. From there the club yo-yoed between Division V and Division VI for a few seasons until at last gaining promotion to Series V.233 in Season 32, where it has remained for the past 4 seasons.
