Q2 Stadium in Austin will host the MLS All-Star Recreation in 2025, league commissioner Don Garber introduced Wednesday.
Austin FC, the younger MLS membership, thus acquired the dignity of internet hosting one of many league’s foremost annual occasions.
The 20,738-seat facility opened in 2021, the primary yr the franchise performed within the MLS. The stadium has hosted matches for the lads’s and girls’s groups within the World Cup qualifiers, Olympic warm-ups and the Gold Cup.
It’ll additionally host two group stage matches of the Copa América in July.
Austin FC has offered out 60 video games in a row, the longest such streak in MLS.
“This metropolis has embraced this crew, like we at all times thought it could. And in some ways we anticipated that to occur. It is a solution to say ‘thanks’ to the followers,” Garber mentioned throughout an occasion at Antone’s, a live performance venue within the metropolis’s leisure district. “This metropolis has proven the remainder of the world that MLS can thrive and achieve success in new markets that had no soccer historical past.”
MLS was the primary sports activities league to open a franchise within the capital of Texas.
The precise date of the match and the opponent for the MLS All-Star crew will probably be introduced later.
Columbus, Ohio will host this yr’s all-star festivities. The MLS all-star crew will conflict with its Liga MX counterpart on July 24.
