After serving as the vice president/general manager for Saint Louis FC of the USL Championship league since March 2014, Jeremy Alumbaugh is set to become the new general manager of the Chattanooga Football Club.
With over 20 years of coaching and management experience in the club, collegiate and professional ranks, the 46-year-old Alumbaugh takes over for CFC co-founder Sheldon Grizzle, who released the reins at the end of the 2019 season.
“It’s very rare in sports where you get an opportunity to come in and be a part of something that is in a really good spot,” said Alumbaugh, who will be introduced at Finley Stadium this morning at 11. “A lot of times as a coach or leader you come in when things aren’t going well. The team has been losing or the team is not doing well at the gate. Chattanooga FC is obviously the opposite. They have done amazing things here, and this is an opportunity I could not pass up.”
CFC has an all-time record of 115-41-35 and a home attendance of more than 400,000 for soccer matches in Finley since 2009. This February the club will make the leap to the professional tier-3 division of US Soccer as they join the National Independent Soccer Association.
With the club’s stated mission to use soccer as a tool to build community in Chattanooga, and to strengthen relationships among all people, Alumbaugh believes he has found a perfect fit.