CINCINNATI – After shattering attendance records and completing an innovative plan to build a new, state-of-the-art soccer stadium, Cincinnati has been awarded a Major League Soccer expansion team, Commissioner Don Garber announced today. Led by an impressive, highly-respected local ownership group, the team will begin MLS play in the 2019 season.
The club, which will continue as FC Cincinnati when it joins MLS, will play at Nippert Stadium until the club’s 21,000-seat soccer stadium in Cincinnati’s West End neighborhood is completed in 2021. The venue is the result of club and community leadership executing a plan to build a soccer stadium that will be a centerpiece of economic growth in the region.