Unlike some Major League Soccer expansion clubs, the first home game in 2021 for Austin FC will be in their own 20,500-seat stadium. Team president Andy Loughnane said the organization wouldn’t have it any other way.
The new soccer-specific, multi-purpose event venue will open with the team’s first season. He said the $240 million, privately funded project will feature the second-largest canopy structure among soccer-specific stadiums. It will be immediately joined by Austin FC staff and infrastructure.
The Austin franchise was joined by fellow MLS expansion club Inter Miami in adding teams to the U.