Wednesday, August 21, 2019

MLS Denies Sacramento Expansion

After five year of being strung along, Major League Soccer has again awarded another city a franchise. The winner yesterday was St. Louis and their scheduled to kick off in a new downtown stadium is 2022. At this point, Sacramento appears to be used as leverage against other cities also wanting a franchise. There is steep price to join the league, in April the expansion fee went up to $200 million which many have forced the Sacramento investors to recalibrate?
From the beginning, I thought both our city leaders and media were far too confident believing Sacramento was all but officially awarded a new franchise. MLS still plans to expand another two team in the next few years, but Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Phoenix, Raleigh and San Diego are going do their best to emerge as the best candidates too. 

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