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the Halls of Fame
Eligibility Requirements & Nomination Process
Every player must meet certain eligibility criteria to then be placed on the eligibility list.
These criteria include that he or she must be retired for at least three years but no more than ten. He or she must have either played as at least twenty full international games for the United States or he or she must have played at least five seasons in an American first division professional league and won the league championship, the U.S. Open Cup, or been a league all-star at least once.
Those players that have met the second requirements are placed in a veteran’s committee list instead of the Hall of fame inductee list. These can include international players in the American leagues.
Once the list has been approved by the Board of Directors of the National Soccer Hall of Fame they become candidates in the election. Votes are cast (it is unclear who votes) and the top three are inducted in to the Hall of Fame.