New York City officials have reached an agreement to build the city’s first professional football stadium in Queens, according to multiple reports Tuesday.
The 25,000-seat stadium will be the home ground of the American Professional Football League New York City Football Club and is expected to be completed in 2027.
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NYCFC will pay approximately $780 million to build a privately funded stadium on city land, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
A deal will be officially announced on Wednesday at an event attended by Mayor Eric Adams, according to Reuters.
“Queens, the county of the world, will now become the home of football,” Maria Torres-Springer, deputy mayor for economic development and workforce, said in an interview with the NYT on Tuesday. , the sport of the world.
The stadium will be located across from Citi Field, home of the New York Mets baseball team, and will be part of a broader waterfront project that includes housing and a hotel.
MLS Commissioner Don Garber has frequently expressed the desire that league teams build soccer-specific stadiums in metropolitan areas and expanded teams such as Nashville SC, FC Cincinnati and Austin FC has done so in recent years.
Garber said of the newly proposed NYCFC stadium: “This is just another step towards the vision we want our club to be in a community accessible to fans.
Information from Reuters was used in this story.
