North Carolina Football Club will not be one of the two teams joining Major League Soccer in the league’s next wave of expansion, the MLS announced this morning.

NCFC, located in Cary with plans to build a new stadium in downtown Raleigh if an MLS spot was secured, was not named among the four finalists for the two expansion bids which will be announced in December. Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville and Sacramento are the four cities still vying for a jump to the top-flight division, narrowed down from the original 12-team field.

While a move to the MLS will not happen for NCFC in the coming months, the club is still in the hunt for the league’s next two expansion spots following the December decision. The league said in its statement that all remaining markets that submitted an initial bid will be considered for another wave of expansion, which will be announced sometime in the future.

Despite the MLS decision, NCFC will still be playing in a new league next season, as the club announced earlier this month it is making the jump from the struggling North American Soccer League to the rapidly expanding United Soccer League.