The Long Island Rough Riders will kick off thier 14-game USL League Two season against the Red Bulls Under-23 team at Motamed Field at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. on Saturday, May 16 at 7:30 p.m.

In fact, the Rough Riders’ early schedule will be top heavy in games as six of their opening seven matches will be play at home.

The team will call three venues home, including Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. and the Howie Vogts Field at the Bethpage High School Athletic Complex in Bethpage, N.Y.

The regular season runs through July 11.

The schedule:

DAY DATE TIME HOME AWAY STADIUM
Sat May, 16th 7:30 PM Long Island Rough Riders Red Bulls Motamed Field – Adelphi University
Wed May 20th 7:30 PM Long Island Rough Riders Westchester Hofstra University
Wed May 27th 8:00 PM Cedar Stars LI Rough Riders Fairleigh Dickinson University
Sat May 30th 7:30 PM Long Island Rough Riders FA Euro Howie Vogts Field
Bethpage HS Athletic Complex
Sat Jun 6th 7:30 PM Long Island Rough Riders Red Bulls Howie Vogts Field
Bethpage HS Athletic Complex
Wed Jun 10th 7:30 PM Long Island Rough Riders Manhattan SC Manhattan College
Sat Jun 13th 7:30 PM Long Island Rough Riders Cedar Stars Howie Vogts Field
Bethpage HS Athletic Complex
Wed Jun 17th 8:00 PM Cedar Stars LI Rough Riders Fairleigh Dickinson University
Sat Jun 20th 8:00 PM Red Bulls LI Rough Riders TBD
Sat Jun 27th 8:00 PM FA Euro LI Rough Riders Poly Prep High School
Wed Jul 1st 7:30 PM Westchester LI Rough Riders City Park
Mon Jul 6th 8:00 PM FA Euro LI Rough Riders Poly Prep High School
Wed Jul 8th 7:30 PM Manhattan SC LI Rough Riders Manhattan College
Sat Jul 11th 7:30 PM Long Island Rough Riders Manhattan SC Howie Vogts Field
Bethpage HS Athletic Complex

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.