MLS to Outline Expansion Process, Timeline This Week

Date Posted: December 13, 2016

Posted In: Projects,

From St. Louis Business Journal:  Major League Soccer officials are expected to announce Thursday the process for its strategic expansion plan that will ultimately lead to a 28-team league.

That process likely will include a timeline, pricing and other pertinent information related to its expansion, which is expected to include St. Louis.

It’s widely anticipated that, contingent on a new $200 million stadium being built just west of Union Station, St. Louis would be in line for an expansion team that could be playing as soon as 2020.

The MLS board of directors meets Thursday in New York City.

Officials with SC STL, the local ownership group leading the MLS stadium project here, are not expected to attend the owners meeting, though Jim Kavanaugh, vice chairman of the group and CEO of World Wide Technology, does have a meeting Friday with MLS Commissioner Don Garber to talk about the local stadium effort.

Kavanaugh said he doesn’t expect the process and timeline announcement will be overly specific.

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