The North American Soccer League released the first details of the league’s 2013 season on Thursday, announcing a schedule of twelve games per team for the Spring half of the championship, set to take place between the beginning of April and July 4. The winner of this phase plays the winner of the fall half of the schedule (which will ostensibly run from August through mid-November) for the NASL championship. Seven teams will play in the spring, with the expansion New York Cosmos participating in the fall along with league member Puerto Rico, which has chosen to skip the spring season to reorganize for the fall.

(Confusing? Sure. But the league’s so hell-bent on promoting the return of the Cosmos that a two-half schedule wasn’t a problem for them. On Twitter, some wags suggested that the two halves of the year would be called “Preseason” and “Cosmos.”)

Closer to home, the Stars will play five of their six spring home games in the Metrodome, with just the July 4 date being played at their traditional home at the National Sports Center. Minnesota opens the year April 6 at home against San Antonio, the team they knocked out of the playoffs last fall thanks, in part, to a headbutt from Scorpions striker Pablo Campos.

The Stars played last year’s season opener at the Metrodome as well, drawing 0-0 with Carolina.

Minnesota will also get an Independence Day home game, their lone outdoor home game of the spring season, against Atlanta.