The U.S. Soccer Federation won a jury verdict in Brooklyn on Monday in a civil antitrust case brought by a defunct league that had accused the group of an unlawful scheme to curb competition for top-tier men's professional soccer.

The $500million antitrust lawsuit filed by the North American Soccer League against the U.S. Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer is nearing its end, with jury deliberations to begin on Monday.

A federal jury in New York on Monday found that the U.S. Soccer Federation did not violate antitrust law in its handling of the North American Soccer League, which operated between 2011 and 2017 and argued that U.