Eric Quill

Eric Quill

HEAD COACH

FC Dallas named Eric Quill as the club’s ninth full-time head coach in franchise history on Nov. 20, 2024.

COACHING CAREER

Quill served as the head coach of North Texas SC from 2019-21. He guided the team to the inaugural USL League One Championship in 2019 and earned USL League One Coach of the Year honors.

Since departing Frisco in 2021, Quill continued to build his coaching legacy. He joins FC Dallas after serving as the head coach of USL Championship side New Mexico United, where he made an immediate impact after taking the reins in June 2023. In the 2024 season, Quill led New Mexico to the USL Championship Western Conference Semifinals and the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Quarterfinals, defeating MLS club Real Salt Lake along the way. United finished 18-5-11 under Quill in 2024.

A champion of player development and a seasoned coach across all levels of the sport, Quill’s resume includes a stint as an assistant coach with the Columbus Crew from 2021-23. Quill also led Texans SC to a U.S. Development Academy National Championship in 2017, earning USSDA Coach of the Year honors the same year, and served as an assistant for the U.S. U-15 and U-19 national teams.

PLAYING CAREER

Quill’s played collegiately at Clemson University in 1996 before joining MLS in 1997 through the Project-40 (Generation Adidas) program with the Tampa Bay Mutiny, where he tallied eight goals and 19 assists across 79 appearances. He later played for the Kansas City Wizards (now Sporting Kansas City), scoring seven goals and assisting seven over 49 matches, and joined the Dallas Burn in 2004, contributing a goal and three assists in 23 games. Quill retired in 2005 after a season with the New York MetroStars (now New York Red Bulls). A U.S. Youth International, he represented the U-16 and U-20 national teams and was part of the U.S. Men’s National Team player pool from 2001 to 2003.

An outstanding youth soccer player, Quill was offered a contract by Ajax Amsterdam as a teenager, but declined the opportunity to go to Europe. He instead stayed in the United States, following the conventional route by going to Clemson University to play college soccer in 1996. After scoring six goals and five assists as a freshman for the Tigers, however, Quill decided to go pro, signing a Project-40 contract with MLS.

Quill was allocated to the Tampa Bay Mutiny for the 1997 season, but saw little playing time. After appearing extensively as a substitute in 1999, Quill finally broke into the team’s starting lineup in 2000, when he started 25 games, registering five goals and eleven assists. Quill returned and played just as well in 2001, finishing the year with two goals and eight assists in 23 starts. The Mutiny were contracted at the end of 2001, however, and Quill was selected fourth overall by the Kansas City Wizards in the 2002 MLS Dispersal Draft.

Quill immediately stepped into the Wizards’ left midfield position, but numerous injuries limited him to 13 starts and one assist on the season. Having recovered in 2003, Quill had a solid campaign, starting 25 games and scoring three goals and seven assists. However, Quill was traded in the offseason to the Dallas Burn along with Carey Talley for Shavar Thomas. Quill had a disappointing season with the Burn, and although he beat out Brad Davis for his left midfield position, he only registered one goal and three assists on the year. He was let go by the club early in 2005 and signed with the MetroStars in August. Quill was released by the club in November 2005.

Unable to find a club, Quill turned to coaching, spending time as the assistant coach and recruiting coordinator with the women’s soccer team at the University of Houston in 2007 and 2008.

In early 2009, Quill was coaxed out of semi-retirement to play in the Premier Development League for Houston Leones, where he was expected to lend his experience to the team’s midfield.^[1]

Although he had been called up to camps, Quill never played for the United States national team. He did, however, play for the U-23, U-20, and U-16 sides.

Quill’s first head coaching position was for North Texas SC during the club’s tenure in USL League One. North Texas won the league during the inaugural 2019 season, and Quill has named League One Coach of the Year.^[2]

In December 2021, Quill was named to Caleb Porter‘s Columbus Crew coaching staff.^[3]

Quill was appointed head coach of New Mexico United in the USL Championship on June 13, 2023.^[4] In August 2024, New Mexico United extended Quill’s contract through the 2026 season.^[5] Quill led New Mexico to their best-ever single season performance in 2024, including a Western Conference title and team single-season records in wins and points.^[6]

Quill was named head coach of Major League Soccer club FC Dallas on November 20, 2024.^[7]

Quill is married to Susan Bush, former soccer player for the U.S. national team and current coach, who he worked with while the assistant of the Houston Cougars women’s team.^[8]

As of match played 14 March 2026

Coaching record by team and tenure

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
North Texas SC		January 24, 2019	December 12, 2021	74	35	21	18	122	84	+38	47.30
New Mexico United		June 13, 2023	November 19, 2024	63	31	10	22	92	83	+9	49.21
FC Dallas		November 20, 2024	Present	42	13	14	15	67	72	−5	30.95
Total				179	79	45	55	281	239	+42	44.13

North Texas SC

• USL League One: 2019

Individual

• USL League One Coach of the Year: 2019