{"id":363527,"date":"2025-12-23T09:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363527\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T09:57:22","slug":"portland-fire-hires-hall-of-fame-wnba-icon-sylvia-fowles-as-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363527\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Fire Hires Hall of Fame WNBA Icon Sylvia Fowles as Assistant Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

NWSL expansion team Boston Legacy FC has found a home, with the franchise announcing Friday that it plans to play the majority of the club’s 2026 inaugural season at Foxborough’s Gillette Stadium<\/a> while moving some matches to Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

Home to the NFL’s New England Patriots, Gillette will also serve as a host site for the men’s 2026 World Cup, pushing the Boston Legacy to relocate some conflicting summer clashes to Centreville Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n

Located\u00a0approximately 22 miles by car from Foxborough, Pawtucket’s soccer-specific venue is home to second-flight USL Championship side Rhode Island FC.<\/p>\n

“As we expand across two exceptional venues, we see this as an opportunity to connect with even more soccer fans across the region,” said Boston Legacy president Jennifer van Dijk in Friday’s club statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Legacy is still moving forward on a public-private partnership with Boston’s White Stadium<\/a> for the 2027 season and beyond, with the Franklin Park venue still undergoing renovations through the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

How to attend the first-ever Boston Legacy FC match<\/p>\n

With the club aiming to move into its state-of-the-art performance center<\/a> prior to making its NWSL debut, Boston Legacy FC is also gearing up for its first-ever home opener, which will kick off inside Gillette Stadium at 12:30 PM ET on Saturday, March 14th.<\/p>\n

Though the expansion side’s opening opponent \u2014\u00a0as well as the rest of the league’s 2026 schedule \u2014 is still unknown, fans can be a part of NWSL history by snagging tickets to the club’s first-ever match at BostonLegacyFC.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NWSL expansion team Boston Legacy FC has found a home, with the franchise announcing Friday that it plans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[104805,104254,49,48,726,56137,1173,1161,736,69284,4963,104252,82,8610,58784,8611,630,4458,82271,156145,19368,67826,68680],"class_list":["post-363527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2026-wnba-season","tag-alex-sarama","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-sky","tag-class-of-2025","tag-coaches","tag-espn","tag-minnesota-lynx","tag-naismith-hall-of-fame","tag-olympics","tag-portland-fire","tag-sports","tag-sylvia-fowles","tag-team-usa","tag-tina-charles","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-all-star","tag-wnba-championship","tag-wnba-defensive-player-of-the-year","tag-wnba-expansion","tag-wnba-mvp","tag-wnba-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}