Bethlehem Steel, the Union's minor-league USL affiliate, will move next season's games to Talen Energy Stadium after the USL office barred the team from playing at Lehigh's Goodman Stadium due to a lack of floodlights there.
The move was announced Monday by Union chief business officer Tim McDermott, in a press release issued by the team. It came as a surprise, but the timing of the announcement was more surprising than the move itself.
Goodman Stadium has lacked floodlights ever since it opened in 1988, and that's been a thorn in Bethlehem Steel's side since they launched in 2016.