SAN JOSE — The Earthquakes’ three-year-old stadium might have a new name for the 2019 season after Santa Clara-based telecommunications company Avaya Inc. has asked a federal judge to reduce the terms of its naming rights deal as part of a bankruptcy case.
If the terms are accepted, the Quakes could lose $12 million they expected to receive over the course of the original agreement that was signed in 2014. U.S. judge Stuart M. Bernstein is scheduled to rule on the proposed settlement Dec. 12.
The team has agreed to the proposed change that would end the contract after the 2018 season, according to documents filed Thursday in U.