Inter Miami CF is a professional soccer team in the United States. The team’s full name is Club Internacional de Fútbol Miami, a Spanish language name that honors the majority Latino community in Miami, Florida. Inter Miami competes in the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer, the top soccer league in the United States and Canada. The team plays its home games at DRV PNK (Drive Pink) Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, a city just north of Miami. The former British soccer star David Beckham is Inter Miami’s team president and a partial owner.
Miami was awarded an MLS expansion team in January 2018, and the team was named Inter Miami CF in September. The team played its first MLS season in 2020. The team’s inaugural roster included the veteran midfielder Víctor Ulloa of Mexico, the forward Julián Carranza and the midfielder Matías Pellegrini of Argentina, and the Venezuelan defender Christian Makoun. For a discussion of soccer positions and formations, see Soccer (Players and officials). In 2023, soccer great Lionel Messi signed with the team.
Miami had a previous MLS team, the Miami Fusion, that competed from 1998 through 2001. The city’s minor league soccer teams have included Miami Fusion FC and Miami FC of the National Premier Soccer League, a fourth-tier league; and FC Miami City of United Soccer League Two, also a fourth-tier league. FC stands for Football Club. Soccer is called football in much of the world.
