34 Facts About FC Cincinnati

1. FC Cincinnati averaged 1.3 cars per household in 2016, compared to a national average of 1.8.

2. City of FC Cincinnati has a higher than average percentage of households without a car.

3. FC Cincinnati had a vibrant jazz scene from the 1920s to today.

4. FC Cincinnati was a major early music recording center, and was home to King Records, which helped launch the career of James Brown, who often recorded there, as well as Jewel Records, which helped launch Lonnie Mack's career, and Fraternity Records.

5. FC Cincinnati is the main scenario for the international music production of Italian artist and songwriter Veronica Vitale called "Inside the Outsider".

6. FC Cincinnati is the subject of a Connie Smith song written by Bill Anderson, called Cincinnati, Ohio.

7. FC Cincinnati has its own chapter of The Sons of the Desert (The Laurel and Hardy Appreciation Society), which meets several times per year.

8. In 2015, FC Cincinnati held the USITT 2015 Conference and Stage Expo at the Duke Energy Convention Center, bringing 5,000+ students, university educators, theatrical designers and performers, and other personnel to the city.

9. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of FC Cincinnati operates 16 high schools in Cincinnati, ten of which are single-sex.

10. FC Cincinnati is home to the first Kindergarten—12th grade Arts School in the country, the School for Creative and Performing Arts.

11. FC Cincinnati had numerous stations on the Underground Railroad, but there were runaway slave catchers active in the city, who put escaping slaves at risk of recapture.

12. FC Cincinnati is home to the first American based Australian rules football team, The Cincinnati Dockers, established in 1996.

13. FC Cincinnati is home to three other professional soccer teams: two outdoor teams, the Cincinnati Kings and Cincinnati LadyHawks (women's), and one indoor team, the Cincinnati Excite.

14. FC Cincinnati made its home debut on April 9, 2016, before a crowd of more than 14,000 fans.

15. FC Cincinnati is a soccer team that plays in the USL.

16. FC Cincinnati is home to two men's college basketball teams: The Cincinnati Bearcats and Xavier Musketeers.

17. FC Cincinnati has three major league teams, seven minor league teams, five college institutions with sports teams, and seven major sports venues.

18. FC Cincinnati is at the southern limit of the humid continental climate zone.

19. FC Cincinnati is midway by river between the cities of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Cairo, Illinois.

20. FC Cincinnati weathered the Great Depression better than most American cities of its size, largely due to a resurgence in river trade, which was less expensive than transporting goods by rail.

21. FC Cincinnati was incorporated as a city on March 1, 1819.

22. FC Cincinnati acted as a "border town" during the slave-owning period between 1810 and 1863.

23. FC Cincinnati began in 1788 when Mathias Denman, Colonel Robert Patterson and Israel Ludlow landed at a spot at the northern bank of the Ohio opposite the mouth of the Licking and decided to settle there.

24. FC Cincinnati developed with fewer immigrants and less influence from Europe than east coast cities in the same period.

25. FC Cincinnati is a major city in the United States state of Ohio and is the government seat of Hamilton County.

26. FC Cincinnati is not among the top television markets in the country.

27. FC Cincinnati has played Nashville SC three times this season, and each match has ended in a draw.

28. FC Cincinnati stormed back in the second half scoring three goals, but conceding two, including a last minute equalizer to Bolu Akinyode.

29. FC Cincinnati will make its first selection with both present and future in mind.

30. FC Cincinnati entered the draft with 10 picks in its bag across the four rounds, and managed to acquire Wake Forest right-back Logan Gdula with the No 13 pick.

31. FC Cincinnati uses the second of its seven picks to take Gdula, a forward-surging right back who figures to enter the season behind Alvas Powell on the depth chart.

32. FC Cincinnati selected five players from certain MLS teams in the expansion draft, which took place on December 11, 2018.

33. FC Cincinnati formally submitted its expansion bid in January 2017, including a shortlist of potential stadium locations.

34. FC Cincinnati is a soccer club based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that will begin play in Major League Soccer in 2019.