Major League Soccer is coming to San Diego by 2025 with a new franchise.
San Diego will have football Premier League football. MLS commissioner Don Garber confirmed that the California city is home to team number 30, an expansion franchise, the name and image of which are yet to be revealed.
It will be owned by Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Mansour, Sycuan Band of the Nacion Kumeyaay, Brad Termini of Zephyr Partners, Tom Vernon and Dan Dickinson of Right to Dream and Major League Baseball’s San Diego Padres player Manny Machado.
“We are thrilled to welcome San Diego to Major League Soccer as our 30th team. For years we believed that San Diego would be a great MLS market because of its youthful energy, great diversity and the fact that football is an essential part. of the daily lives of so many people. Mohamed Mansour and the Sycuan tribe have an incredible vision to build a club that will inspire and unite football fans across the city and region.”or Garber.
While it looked like said franchise would be heading to Las Vegas, it was San Diego that won and will play the race from 2025 in the Snapdragon Stadium, which will host the Mexican national team’s match against Cameroon in June and in one of the 2023 Gold Cup stadiums, where Diego Cocca is tied for the title in the hands of the United States.
The one in San Diego is the tenth expansion franchise after being included Atlanta United, Minnesota United, LAFC, FC Cincinnati, Inter Miami, Nashville SC, Austin FC, Charlotte FC and St. Louis City SC to MLS.
San Diego Loyal, a team led by Landon Donovan, is not part of the San Diego team project, which will have Tom Penn, former LAFC president Carlos Vela, as executive director.
Source: Goal