AMB Sports and Entertainment owns United and Falcons and Arthur Blank is the co-founder and CEO of Home Depot. AMBSE is also the owner of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. The multipurpose venue opened in 2017. Mercedes-Benz Stadium is usually able to hold 42,500 people during United matches, while the venue can seat 71,000 at NFL games. The NWSL, according to The Athletic will collect an expansion fee for Atlanta of $165,000,000, which is the largest ever in league history. According to The Athletic, the ownership group for the Denver Summit (which will start play in 2019) paid $110m earlier this season. Boston Legacy (2026), Bay FC (2024), and other 2026 expansion sides paid about $53m each. The Kansas City Chiefs are among the NWSL owners who have been focusing on NWSL-specific facilities. City Current and Angel City The teams that have their own facilities will be given priority. The NWSL has a new chapter of expansion. Atlanta is the first city to receive an expansion team after the league switched to a rolling process. Commissioner Jessica Berman described this as a “rolling procedure”. The league’s new expansion chapterAtlanta is the first market to be awarded with an NWSL expansion team since the league moved to a rolling process, as commissioner Jessica Berman has described it.
We decided to switch to a rolling system mainly because we have been through [these] Berman told the press in September that they had completed two rounds of interviews and knew a good number of those who were interested. “There are over a dozen.” The conversations are still ongoing, and they each have different perspectives on the amount of time needed to launch and what investments need to be made to succeed, possibly around infrastructure. We don’t want to force a square-peg into a circular hole. We want to be flexible so we can achieve the best results for the next phase.”Atlanta is a perfect fit for the NWSL expansion strategy. Blank has now made a documented investment in soccer United’s $50 million pledge to U.S. Soccer for the National Training Center, located in Fayetteville’s suburbs. The center is scheduled to open in 2026. It will bear the name of the businessman. Atlanta Beat played in Women’s United Soccer Association, and Women’s Professional Soccer until those leagues folded. Women’s soccer is a growing market. soccer does not end there – Mercedes-Benz Stadium set the U.S. women’s national team’s attendance record for a friendly on home soil when 50,000 filled the venue for a 2-1 win over Japan in April 2024.The NWSL has also favored major media markets in recent expansion endeavors. From 2022 to 2028, they will have added teams in four of the U.S.’ top 10 media markets – the LA-based Angel CityBay FC, Boston Legacy, and the Atlanta team. Denver, the home of the Summit is ranked in the top 20 cities and boasts an international airport.
Atlanta will be the first NWSL team to expand, despite its intention to play on artificial turf instead of artificial grass. Mercedes-Benz Stadium would not be the first NWSL stadium with artificial turf – the Portland Thorns and the Seattle Reign, two of the league’s original teams, play on artificial turf at Providence Park and Lumen Field, respectively. Boston Legacy’s inaugural season will be played at Gillette Stadium. Like Lumen Field, it is an NFL venue.
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