RENTON, Wash. — As the Seattle Sounders prepare to start their 14th MLS season, there should be no doubt that they are considered one of the league’s aspirational clubs. In that time, no team has claimed more points, won more trophies or drawn more fans.
But majority owner Adrian Hanauer has often talked about a nagging sense that for all the Sounders’ accomplishments, they never really had a proper home.
For all of Lumen Field’s obvious positive attributes, the Sounders are very obviously a tenant in someone else’s building. Similarly, Starfire Sports Complex has served the Sounders very well, but is also a shared facility that has been lapped several times over by most other MLS teams’ facilities.