Southbound & Crown — Scarves Up | Charlotte FC & Greenville Triumph Supporters

Matchday

Where we’ll be

Every home match starts hours early in the Royal Family Tailgate Lot. Away days start with a full tank and a group chat. Sample fixtures — design preview

SBC · 2026 · CLT

Charlotte FC vs Nashville SC

Bank of America Stadium · Uptown Charlotte

Lot opens 3:30 PM — grills on, games out, kids eat free.

SAT · 7:30 PMKickoff ET Lot is on

SBC · Away day

Atlanta United vs Charlotte FC

Mercedes-Benz Stadium · Atlanta

The annual bus rolls from Rock Hill — capacity capped, seats go fast.

SAT · 7:00 PMKickoff ET Bus seats open

SBC · 2026 · GVL

Greenville Triumph vs One Knoxville SC

Greenville, S.C.

Triumph members — season parking passes honored.

FRI · 7:00 PMKickoff ET Home · GVL

Who we ride for

One scarf, two ends

Charlotte FC on one end. Greenville Triumph on the other. The same yarn runs all the way through — one club, one membership home, one very long story. Nothing here is two fan pages stitched together; it’s a single scarf that got longer.

Charlotte FC

The founding end · MLS · Bank of America Stadium

South Carolina’s first Charlotte FC supporters group — started the day MLS named Charlotte club No. 30, on purpose, from outside the city limits. We’ve been heading north up I-77 ever since.

Charlotte membership

Greenville Triumph SC

The newest end · USL League One · Greenville, S.C.

Gold in the wash now, too: full Triumph memberships, season parking, and a matchday home base in the Upstate. Same songs, same family, different shade on the scarf.

Triumph membership

The Royal Family Tailgate Lot

“The best tailgate in the South.”
— SEC Quarterly

A Saturday in the Lot

Family-friendly on purpose — kids eat free, there are Legos on the table, and the karaoke is genuinely mesmerizing. Scroll through the day.

Kickoff − 4h

The lot opens

South Carolina tents up first. Claim a table, say hey to everybody.

Kickoff − 3h

Grills on

Good food, good beer, good company. Members eat cheap; kids eat free.

Kickoff − 2h

Tournament time

Ping pong brackets, Biñho, cornhole, cards — winners get bragging rights.

Kickoff − 1h

Songs & scarves

Chant practice for the new folks, karaoke covers for the brave.

Kickoff − 30m

The march

Flags out front, everybody in. The walk to the ground is half the fun.

Kickoff

Scarves up

90 minutes of noise for whichever badge we’re backing today.

Full time

Same lot, next match

Pack the cooler, hug it out. Come on back — pull up a chair anytime.

Kids eat free Every home match Family-friendly on purpose Kenny Powers flags flying

2026 memberships are open

Pick your kit

Every membership starts with the kit — scarf, sticker, clear drawstring bag — and ends with a vote. Member-run means exactly that: elections, referendums, and a board any member can stand for.

The classic

Individual

$30 / 2026 season

Member kit: scarf, sticker, clear drawstring bag
15% off everything in the SBC shop
Supporter-section single-match ticket access
Away tickets + tracked sign-ups for road trips
Discord community + discounted tailgates

Join — Individual

The whole crew

Family

$60 / 2026 season

Everything in Individual, household-wide
Kids eat free at every tailgate
Member food pricing for the whole table
Game nights & rec-day events for all ages

Join — Family

The Greenville end

Upstate

SBC Triumph

$15 / 2026 season

Triumph matchday home base in Greenville
Discord community + away-day coordination
Member merch discount

With season parking — $65 Parking pass only — $50

Join — Triumph

Every kit carries SBC voting rights. Vote in official elections and referendums, nominate yourself, run for the board. This is a democratically-run club, not a brand with customers.

Beyond matchday

Sewn on for good

The parts of the club that never come off. A supporters group that only exists on Saturdays isn’t much of one — between matches, all of this keeps rolling:

Away trips

Every road trip gets a roster — sign up, see the headcount, know exactly who's on the annual capacity-capped bus to Atlanta before it fills up.

Rec soccer

SBC fields its own sides for the Queen City Cup and adult league play. Support on Saturday, play on Sunday.

Game nights

Member-led weekly and monthly sessions — Catan, D&D, Phasmophobia, Warzone — plus Legos on the table for the kids.

Community & charity

Fundraising drives and volunteer campaigns across the Carolinas. The crest means something off the pitch, too.

“Nothing could be finer.”— the family motto, southboundcrown.com

How this scarf got so long

It started with a handful of Tottenham Hotspur supporters in Rock Hill, South Carolina. When MLS named Charlotte its 30th club, Michael Gallemore and Matt Burris turned that fandom into South Carolina’s first Charlotte FC supporters group — built deliberately from outside the city limits, to give the fans beyond Charlotte a voice.

The yarn kept going: members across the Carolinas and beyond, a second club in Greenville, a rec team, an annual bus to Atlanta, a Lego habit, and karaoke that has to be heard to be believed. Come on in, pull up a chair, and be part of the continuing story.

Founded inRock Hill, S.C.

Co-foundersGallemore & Burris

GovernanceMember-elected

Souvenirs

Fresh from the merch table

Scarves, flags, and Season 3 gear. Members take 15% off everything.

Everything in the shop →

2024 SBC Summer Scarf

Scarves

3×5 SBC Kenny Powers Display Flag

Flags

SBC Season 3 Crewneck

Apparel

2023 SBC Summer Scarf

Scarves · On sale

Scarves up with us.

Join for the 2026 season — from $15. Or just come by the lot first and let supper do the convincing. Either way, there’s a scarf with your name on it.

Become a member 2026 Visit the lot first

Scarves up, Carolina.