The Professional Women's Soccer League is coming to Lexington today.

The Lexington Sporting Club announced a new stadium to be built off Athens, Boonsboro Road near Interstate 75.

Now, this will be the home place for the men's and the new women's professional soccer teams in Lexington.

And there is hope the new stadium will mean new fans and new players.

This is home for us.

This is Lexington.

This is where we want to be.

We want we want to develop a community relationship where our fans can all get together and have a great time and support a team that's going to be better every year.

This is so the kids can see the pros practice, play with the pros.

Our pros have been out to the practices before and we want to integrate the system.

It is one club with one logo for everybody.

We're talking about the growth of women's soccer and the opportunity here in Lexington with.

The USL Super League, I think.

Well, well, we'll highlight Kentucky's kids are going to see if they want to be a professional soccer player.

They can.

They're going to see both men and women that look like them, that put in the time and the effort.

They're going to be out of practice alongside them, see the work ethic that it takes to be a professional athlete, which will be an amazing teaching moment no matter what they go on to do.

This is more jobs for women and men to work in the front office, to be presidents of clubs, to be sporting directors of clubs, to be coaches, to work in PR, media marketing, all of those different areas in a in a soccer business are truly special and creating more opportunities for more women, more men.

The initial stadium will be 5500 ish seats, and we will, we hope to conduct our first Super League game next August.

As mayor, I look at this announcement through an economic development lens.

This is the type of quality of life addition that will help us attract and grow new jobs as well as create jobs of its own.

In addition, this facility will support our hotels and our restaurants.

Our tourism industry Now, it is wonderful to be talking about a facility that will offer new opportunities for these businesses.

The men's team, founded in 2021, will finish its inaugural season in the USL League one on October 14th against the Greenville Triumph soccer Club from South Carolina.

Now the new women's soccer team will have its first season in 2024, the same year the new stadium will be finished.