CPKC Stadium in Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, will host the 2024 Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League Championship on Saturday, Nov. 23.
CPKC Stadium opened earlier this 12 months as the primary venue constructed particularly for an NWSL group. The Kansas Metropolis Present have offered out each house match to this point within the 11,500-seat capability stadium.
The match will mark the primary time Kansas Metropolis has hosted the NWSL Championship. The Present are unbeaten this season by way of 15 matches.
CPKC Stadium value over $120 million and was largely privately funded. The Present is owned by Angie and Chris Lengthy in addition to Brittany Mahomes and Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman has steadily pressured the significance of groups proudly owning their very own venues to manage income and have first collection of key dates.
“It is a lot greater than I anticipated,” NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman mentioned at halftime of the opening match of the NWSL season in Kansas Metropolis in March.
“We have been saying in the event you construct it they’ll come, internally, after which coming right here and truly seeing what it means to truly put money into brick and mortar bodily infrastructure, it is a game-changer.
“They’ve modified the footprint of this metropolis perpetually, and I feel it should have an excellent higher influence than anybody can think about.”
Angie Lengthy mentioned in an interview with ESPN earlier this 12 months that she remembers listening to from doubters early within the course of.
“‘Why do you guys want your individual stadium? Cannot you simply go play in another person’s stadium?’ “I type of want to know what main profitable sports activities franchise on this planet is simply joyful to take a seat again and be a tenant in someone else’s stadium?” she mentioned of conversations she had. “And the truth that everyone seems to be asking this query is slightly bit ironic, I feel, nevertheless it speaks to the unbelievable alternative and one of many the explanation why the expansion potential is there.”
Nov. 23 will mark the most recent NWSL Championship within the calendar 12 months in league historical past.
ESPN will air quarterfinal spherical matches starting on Nov. 9 in addition to semifinal spherical matches starting Nov. 16.
San Diego hosted final 12 months’s last in entrance of a crowd of 25,011, a report for a league last. NJ/NY Gotham FC defeated OL Reign (now Seattle Reign FC), 2-1.