Three months after MLS awarded an expansion team to a group that will begin play in San Diego in 2025, the city’s USL Championship team announced that it will fold after the 2023 season. When MLS reached a $500 million deal to bring a new team to San Diego, where it will play at San […]
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Thursday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. Rapinoe says her retirement call will help U.S. women’s soccer team to focus at World Cup By Steve McMorran (AP)2. Two USL pro soccer teams, new soccer stadium, planned for Northwest Arkansas By Adam Roberts (4029tv.com)3. Does football need FIFA? Breakaway threat may test Infantino’s grip on global game By Jonathan Wilson (The Guardian)
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San Diego finally gets MLS team
Expansion efforts rarely die. Almost six years after its expansion bid started to crumble, San Diego was introduced on Thursday as MLS’s 30th team. On the same stadium site as the original bid proposed, but with different owners and a hefty increase in the expansion fee. In 2017, San Diego was tipped as the hot […]
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What They're Saying: Don Garber
“I’ve always believed that even success isn’t final, so failure can’t be final. You can learn from the losses you have. We’re in the sports business. It’s not just about winning every game. Losses build character and build fortitude and put you on a plan to try not to lose again. The day [SoccerCity] lost, […]
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MLS to unveil new team in San Diego for record fee of around $500 million
Major League Soccer will announce a new team in San Diego on Thursday after British-Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Mansour paid a record expansion fee of around $500 million, a person with knowledge of the plans has told AFP. The 30th club in MLS will play at the recently built 35,000-seat Snapdragon Stadium, home to the San […]
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What They're Saying: Jessica Berman
“We do expect for the 2026 season to add two more teams, and so that process will begin later this calendar year, and through the process we ran in 2022 for this round of expansion, we have an incredible amount of interest from qualified investors who want to get in early. And even though our […]
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Thursday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. MLS expansion: San Diego has the momentum to clear a path to becoming league’s 30th team By Jeff Carlisle (ESPN)2. White Stadium set to get a renovation, with an eye to luring a Boston NWSL team By Michael Silverman (Boston Globe) 3. Toronto named 3rd franchise in Canadian women’s pro soccer league set to start […]
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Oakland soccer teams eye lot next to Coliseum for interim stadium
On the same day Oakland mourned the impending loss of the baseball A’s, the Oakland Roots and Soul Sports Club announced they had submitted a proposal for a 10-year lease of Malibu Lot adjacent to the Coliseum, home of the A’s since 1966 and for many years the Raiders. The A’s intend to follow the […]
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Tuesday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. City SC’s cyclone against FC Cincinnati will go down as an unforgettable storm watch By Ben Frederickson (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)2. Environmental clean-up at site of proposed Des Moines soccer stadium could cost $15 million (KCCI.com)3. Behind the scenes at English professional referee training camp By Ben Fisher (The Guardian)
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Wednesday morning: What we're reading (and listening to)
1. MLS considering significant overhaul of playoff format: Sources By Sam Stejskal and Pablo Maurer (The Athletic)2. U.S. women’s soccer celebrated with new stamp by USPS By Chris Wright (ESPN)3. Centene backs out of St. Louis soccer stadium naming deal By Annika Merrilees and Steph Kukuljan (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)