{"id":204651,"date":"2026-03-04T23:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204651\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T23:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:44:26","slug":"sacramento-republic-eyes-potential-future-in-mls-as-work-continues-on-new-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/204651\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Republic eyes potential future in MLS as work continues on new stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Sacramento Republic FC President &amp; GM Tim Holt \u201coutlined his vision\u201d for the USL Championship club as it \u201cpresses forward toward its opening of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/19\/republic-fc-breaks-ground-on-railyards-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/19\/republic-fc-breaks-ground-on-railyards-stadium\/\">new stadium<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/21\/sacramento-republic-unveils-new-plans-for-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/21\/sacramento-republic-unveils-new-plans-for-stadium\/\">downtown Railyards<\/a> in 2027 and the beginning of its 2026 season&#8221; with this Saturday\u2019s home opener, according to Chris Biderman of the SACRAMENTO BEE. Holt on Tuesday said, \u201cThis club wants, and fans deserve, for it to compete at the highest levels available to it. &#8230; But the biggest piece of that, beyond the ownership\u2019s aptitude to do it, is the stadium project.\u201d He added, \u201cA downtown, purpose built soccer stadium is a necessity for us to be able to achieve those ambitions over time.\u201d Biderman noted the club\u2019s ownership group is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/19\/sacramento-republic-fc-sets-eyes-on-mls-with-new-stadium-groundbreaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/19\/sacramento-republic-fc-sets-eyes-on-mls-with-new-stadium-groundbreaking\/\">\u201cpushing\u201d to join MLS<\/a> as the new stadium is being built to \u201cbe expanded from 12,000 seats to more than 20,000, whether that\u2019s for MLS action or something else.\u201d Republic is \u201cexpected to weigh the option\u201d of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/27\/usl-targets-2028-division-i-launch-with-14-founding-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/01\/27\/usl-targets-2028-division-i-launch-with-14-founding-teams\/\">USL\u2019s planned Division I league<\/a> \u201cvs. paying a lucrative expansion fee to join MLS.\u201d Holt will be \u201ckey in helping ownership make that decision when the time comes,\u201d as he also will \u201cintegrate into a leadership role in developing the stadium\u201d that broke ground last summer. Foundation work is \u201ccontinuing on\u201d the $175M stadium in the Railyards that is part of a larger $321M development (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/sports\/article314913300.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/sports\/article314913300.html\">SACRAMENTO BEE, 3\/3<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Republic FC President &amp; GM Tim Holt \u201coutlined his vision\u201d for the USL Championship club as it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,1083],"class_list":["post-204651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204651","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=204651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}