LOUISVILLE CITY FC
Latest LouCity
Happenings
BY GRANT VANCE | COURTESY PHOTOS
Louisville’s premiere professional soccer team,
despite its relative youth to the local sporting
arena, is growing at an exponential rate. With
a new stadium on the way in Butchertown, and
no ceiling in sight for how far the success of
this football club can reach, Louisville City FC
has been bending it into the net and making a
positive impact on the community in a number
of different ways.
Here are some recent LCFC happenings to
chant with the Coopers about:
Finally, a Stadium
As any game-attending fan of LCFC knows,
the team does not quite have a home of its
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“The 41 investors who started this team did
it (for three) reasons: One, we all love soccer.
Two, we thought professional sports would
be great for the city, and we really do. And
three, when we saw we needed a soccer
specific stadium, we said, ‘Let’s find the best
site for that stadium for everybody’… When
you look at this stadium, we’re only building
10,000 seats today – but we’re going to have
20,000 seats here. We’re building this thing to
get an MLS franchise.”
John Neace,
Louisville City FC
Chairman
own. Currently, home games are held at the
River Bats’ Louisville Slugger stadium. A shared
space is better than none at all, of course, but the
upcoming LCFC designated stadium will open
up a world of opportunity for growth. The site of
the stadium is located in Butchertown, carefully
chosen to be a central, convenient route for
fans from all around. Expect the stadium to be
completed in 2020.
Go to extolsports.com to see the full
press conference.
Pitching in with Falls City
Louisville City FC has partnered with Falls
City Beer. This new partnership brought with it