Orange County Blues 2016 USL regular season schedule revealed

The schedule is officially here! After waiting all offseason, and with training camp set to begin very soon, USL released the entire 2016 USL regular season schedule on Tuesday.

Although the schedule is expanded to 30 games this season, the main principles of the slate are in line with last year's schedule. The Orange County Blues, being a West Coast team, will not play any Eastern Conference teams again this year, and the schedule is tilted so that teams play opponents closest to them most often.

The downside is that the easternmost teams in the Western Conference, including Saint Louis FC and Swope Park Rangers, will only play the Blues once each this year, which doesn't seem great for competitive balance. However, the league appears to have heeded the complaints about teams having to play two games in three days, usually on road trips, and the Blues' tightest turnarounds are Thursday-to-Sunday this year, which seems more reasonable.

And the Blues will once again play at Anteater Stadium at UC Irvine for the coming season.

Here's OC's full schedule for 2016. Which games are you most looking forward to? Will the Blues be able to have another good season with this slate ahead of them?

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