CPKC Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, will host the 2024 National Women’s Soccer League Championship on Saturday, Nov. 23.
CPKC Stadium opened earlier this year as the first venue built specifically for an NWSL team. The Kansas City Current have sold out every home match to date in the 11,500-seat capacity stadium.
The match will mark the first time Kansas City has hosted the NWSL Championship. The Current are unbeaten this season through 15 matches.
CPKC Stadium cost over $120 million and was mostly privately funded. The Current is owned by Angie and Chris Long as well as Brittany Mahomes and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes.
NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman has frequently stressed the importance of teams owning their own venues to control revenue and have first selection of key dates.
“It’s so much more than I expected,” NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman said at halftime of the opening match of the NWSL season in Kansas City in March.
“We’ve been saying if you build it they will come, internally, and then coming here and actually seeing what it means to actually invest in brick and mortar physical infrastructure, it’s a game-changer.
“They have changed…
