FC Cincinnati took another step toward closing the deal on a 21,000-seat soccer stadium needed for MLS approval as the league’s 26th team when the Cincinnati city council approved by a vote of 7-0 anamendment to the community benefits agreement for the West End neighborhood. Community benefits agreement: terms.
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MLSPA weighs in on 'deplorable' treatment of Heinemann
The Major League Soccer Players Association issued a statement that FC Cincinnati’s treatment of Tommy Heinemann, whom it released on Jan. 31 after signing a month earlier, was “deplorable andwell below the standards necessary to succeed in MLS.” The statement came as FC Cincinnati continues to seek to find a home for a stadium that […]
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Cincinnati and Sacramento anxious over second MLS expansion pick
In Cincinnati and Sacramento, where strong support for their respective USL teams made them top MLS expansion candidates, the news that MLS has announced a press conference in Nashville on Wednesday to presumably announceit as the 24th MLS team triggered lots of angst from fans in the two cities.#MLS2CINCY: Bid is FCC’s contingent on stadium […]
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MLS Expansion: The four sales pitches — and questions that will be asked
MLS headquarters at 420 5th Avenue in Manhattan will be a busy place on Wednesday. Groups representing four cities — Cincinnati, Detroit, Nashville and Sacramento — will makepresentations to MLS commissioner Don Garber and the league’s expansion committee. A decision on the two cities that will be awarded expansion spots should be made at a […]
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FC Cincinnati gets big jump on 2018 USL season with nine signings
Eliminated in the first round of the USL playoffs for the second year in a row, FC Cincinnati has wasted no time building its team for the 2018 season. It has signed nine players,including goalkeeper Spencer Richey on loan from MLS’s Vancouver Whitecaps to replace star keeper Mitch Hildebrandt, who has not been signed for […]
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FC Cincinnati's Berding: Playing in football stadium is 'fantasy' and money-losing proposition
What’s the difference between playing in an NFL stadium and playing in a soccer-specific stadium you build yourself? FC Cincinnati president and general manager Jeff Berding says that’s the difference between making $12 million over 10 years at the soccer stadium and losing $167 million at Paul Brown Stadium. That’s why he rejects the argument from […]
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FC Cincinnati plan for Cincinnati-based stadium still in limbo
A day after FC Cincinnati set out its case for building an MLS soccer stadium in Cincinnati — it will pay for the stadium if it gets help paying for $70 million-$75 million in infrastructure work onparking, roads and utilities — the Hamilton County commissioners issued their proposal, far short of what FC Cincinnati was […]
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FC Cincinnati's expansion gambit: 'We will 100 percent privately finance the stadium'
In its effort to finalize the missing piece in its bid for an MLS team, FC Cincinnati is ready to privately finance the construction of a soccer stadium. Cincinnati is a tough market towin support for the public financing of a sports facility — it’s done that with the Browns’ Paul Brown Stadium and Reds’ […]
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MLS expansion race: Cincinnati doesn't want to take backseat to Nashville
Under the gun following the decision by Metro Nashville to approve a fundingplan for a soccer stadium at Nashville’s fairgrounds, FC Cincinnati continues to work on finalizing a plan for a soccer-specific stadium, the missing piece in a city that has embraced soccer in abig way in the last two years. After shattering USL and […]
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FC Cincinnati's 'Build It Here' faces competition
Of the 12 MLS expansion candidates, none currently draws more fans than FC Cincinnati. It has shattered all kinds of USL and Open Cup attendance records in 2017, but it has one big problem. It is atenant at its home field, the University of Cincinnati’s Nippert Stadium, and needs a home of its own. Backed […]