{"id":133513,"date":"2026-01-14T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133513\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:24:10","slug":"fresno-continues-effort-to-bring-professional-soccer-to-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/133513\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno continues effort to bring professional soccer to city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno is one step closer to bringing professional soccer to the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Tuesday, the city announced it entered into an exclusivity period with the United Soccer League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During this time, the city and USL will evaluate whether teams can be properly supported, including a suitable stadium, funding models and securing an ownership group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer believes the opportunity will be beneficial for local soccer fans, while also bringing in added entertainment value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;What I can say is a soccer stadium downtown, larger entertainment district,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The proposed stadium would have a minimum seating capacity of 5,000 with the ability for future expansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Dyer says several possible sites have been toured already, but the city is not prepared to disclose where the stadium will be just yet.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Fresno is one step closer to bringing professional soccer to the Central Valley. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[68311,1053,68310,112,114,113,33966,294,68309],"class_list":["post-133513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-68311","tag-city-of-fresno","tag-exlusive-period","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-new-stadium","tag-timely","tag-united-soccer-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}