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Orlando City Stadium is an under-construction soccer-specific stadium in downtown Orlando, Florida. It will be the home venue for the Orlando City SC, which entered Major League Soccer (MLS) as an expansion franchise in 2015, and their National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) sister club the Orlando Pride. The stadium was expected to cost $110 million, however after announcing updated plans, this cost rose to $155 million. It is expected to open for the latter stages of the 2016 MLS season.〔〔 Orlando City will play at the Citrus Bowl until its completion. ==History== In April 2013, the City of Orlando purchased downtown land for $8.2 million to be used towards the construction of a $110 million MLS soccer stadium. However, in May, the Florida House of Representatives failed to vote on a bill that had passed the Senate that would have provided up to $30 million in state funds towards the stadium project. Rawlins responded by expressing his intent to find alternative funding and keep seeking MLS expansion. The Orlando downtown soccer stadium moved closer to securing funding on August 8, 2013, when Orange County Mayor Teresa Jacobs and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer reached an agreement on a deal to provide financial support for a variety of Orlando projects including the new MLS soccer stadium. The last piece in stadium funding was an October 2013 vote on using an existing tourism tax to fund the final quarter of the $80 million stadium project. On October 22, 2013, the Orange County Board of Commissioners voted 5-2 to approve the use of $20 million in tourist development tax funds to build an $84 million multi-purpose soccer stadium in downtown Orlando. On December 11, 2013, the NCAA announced that the 2016 & 2017 NCAA Women's College Cup Championship would be held at the new stadium. 〔 On August 4, 2014, the team announced that the stadium location would be moved one block west, to avoid having a delay to the opening day, due to Faith Deliverance Temple fighting the city's eminent-domain claim. The new location will result in the closure of Parramore Ave. between Church St. and Central Blvd., as the stadium will be built right on top of where the road currently runs.〔〔 Orlando City Stadium is scheduled to be completed for the 2016 season. The club will play their home matches at Citrus Bowl in 2015. On May 29, 2015, Orlando City SC's owners announced that the stadium would be privately funded by Orlando City SC and not the city. They also announced they would upgrade the stadium's capacity from 19,000 seats, to somewhere between 25,000 and 28,000 seats. The new plan was unveiled on July 31, increasing capacity to 25,500 by adding seats to the south end to maximize seats without major design changes that would set back the project by an additional year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Orlando City Stadium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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