The Seattle Sounders announced Friday that they have begun exploratory conversations about the team’s USL affiliate playing its home games in a new stadium in Tacoma sometime in the next three years.
Sounders owner Adrian Hanauer and Tacoma Raniers president Aaron Artman made the announcement via conference call with media members on Friday. Seattle Sounders FC 2 has trained and played all of its home games at the Starfire Sports complex in suburban Tukwila since making its USL debut in 2015.
The club will not relocate its training grounds, but the appeal of a new stadium and a partnership with the Rainiers was enticing enough for both organizations to begin conversations about a potential move roughly 25 miles south on S2 game nights.