time for a history lesson 50 years takes us back to 1974 where San Jose began as an expansion franchise in the North American soccer league the club played in the original major indoor soccer league winning the first ever nasl indoor tournament in 1975 from 1983 to 1984 the team was briefly known as the golden Bay earthquakes San Jose returned in 1994 as one of the founding members of MLS but this time under the name San Jose Clash they hosted the League's inaugural game at Spartan Stadium on April 6th 1996 it took an Eric Waldo strike in the dying Embers of the match for The Clash to defeat DC United 1- and win the first ever game in MLS history since their founding the club has won two MLS cups led by MLS and US MNT Legend Landon Donovan 2003 the playoffs featured one of the greatest comebacks in MLS history the Quakes defeated the Galaxy overcoming a four go deficit to win the two-leg series 5 to four that's all for the history lesson definitely got to check out a game sometime and see one of the founding clubs and most important