![]() Louis City’s CityPark it’s 4,500 more For LAFC, it’s an even 4,000. Austin’s Q2 Stadium only holds about 2,000 more than PayPal Park. PayPal Park opened with a final construction bill of around $100 million nearly every MLS stadium that has opened since the start of 2017 has cost between $200 million and $1 billion, and for similarly-sized buildings. Louis and Austin – and lacks the capacity and premium seating that drives the kind of revenue needed to compete for championships.” Keown also writes that Fisher said PayPal Park “is already outdated compared to newer MLS stadiums – he mentions LAFC, St. The club consistently ranks at or near the bottom third of MLS in payroll. The team has yet to host a playoff game in that stadium, having only qualified twice since it opened. In the article, Fisher cites the decayed state of the A’s’ Oakland Coliseum as a primary factor for the move he believes greater revenue streams by way of a Vegas relocation (or a new stadium deal in Oakland, which failed) could fund a more competitive team.ĮSPN reporter Tim Keown correctly points out that similar promises were made before the opening of the Earthquakes’ PayPal Park in 2015. This past week, owner John Fisher spoke with ESPN about his other club, baseball’s Oakland Athletics, in an article chronicling how that franchise got to the brink of relocating to Las Vegas. ![]() ![]() Off the field, the Quakes are lagging behind.
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