Arkansas Diamonds

The team was first owned by Samir Haj, a youth club coach based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

The franchise struggled for funding as it first played outdoor at Scott Field in Little Rock and its indoor games on the road.

Several local players that grew up in the Arkansas soccer leagues played in the earlier years including David T. Jones, Brad Shock and Robb Fischer from the Westside Futbol Club.

The team was owned by the former Arkansas State Soccer Association's DOC Nigel Boulton and a small group of dedicated parents whose children played for the A's youth teams run by Boulton.

Funding remained a serious problem and in 1995 the group sold the franchise rights to a Tennessee businessman but the team was never reborn in Arkansas or relocated elsewhere.