Kevin Payne Wife: Meet Pamela Payne

Pamela Payne was the wife of Kevin J. Payne, the president and general manager of Toronto FC.

Kevin Payne and his wife Pamela lived in Reston, Virginia. Kevin Payne died from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Charleston, South Carolina, on December 25, 2022, at the age of 69

Kevin Payne was appointed national administrator of the United States Soccer Federation in 1989. In the fall of 1990, he was named the federation’s deputy executive director and director of marketing.

In 1991, he relocated to New York and became the executive vice president and, eventually, president of Soccer USA Partners, which owned all marketing, broadcast, and event promotion rights to the United States men’s national soccer team leading up to the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Payne left the federation in 1991 to become executive vice president of sales and marketing for Soccer USA Partners (SUSAP/API Soccer), and was named president of the organisation in early 1994.

From 1994 to 2012, he served as the president and CEO of D.C. United. He was also a member of the Major League Soccer Board of Governors for 18 years.