The Sounders and Seahawks have shared Lumen Field since 2009.
In some interesting news that is reasonably related to theMajor League Soccer’s Seattle Sounders FC, who have played at Lumen Field since joining the league in 2009, are exploring having their own soccer-specific venue at the team’s soon-to-be opened training facility in Renton., which recently went independent after leaving the SB Nation platform, interviewed team president of business operations Hugh Weber about the Sounders’ future at their new complex.
“Lumen Field has been a great home, but having a soccer-centric stadium is always the dream of any premier MLS club,” Weber said. “It’s always something we’re contemplating and thinking about. There’s definitely room on the site. There’s a lot of exploration that has to happen in terms of is it even a thing our fanbase would consider a positive? There’s a lot of work to be done. I’d be remiss and not honest if I said we weren’t thinking about it.
The Sounders have consistently been one of the best in MLS in terms of fan attendance, and while the standard seating chart is roughly half the size of a Seahawks home game, select. Of the 29 teams in MLS, the Sounders are one of only seven teams that share a stadium with an NFL team. Stadiums aren’t built that quickly so this would be a longer-term project and not something that would impact the 2024 season, but it would reduce the stadium occupants to the Seahawks, the
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