Sporting Kansas City and Children's Mercy Hospital announced a huge new partnership including renaming the stadium to Children's Mercy Park. The hospital will become the official healthcare and sports medicine provider and also receives naming rights to the training center, including the championship field, home to both Swope Park Rangers and FCKC.
The home of Sporting Kansas City will now be known as Children's Mercy Park.
The joint press conference today at the hospital was a packed house. Sports media, local TV news stations, patients, doctors, basically the entire Sporting KC team, Kit and even Blue the Mascot were all on hand for the big announcement.