{"id":234252,"date":"2026-03-24T15:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234252\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:49:09","slug":"usl-club-sacramento-republic-fc-owners-detail-new-expanded-plans-for-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/234252\/","title":{"rendered":"USL club Sacramento Republic FC owners detail new expanded plans for stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-facilities \">Sacramento Republic FC majority owner Wilton Rancheria has \u201csignificantly expanded its initial plan for a new soccer stadium\u201d downtown, which \u201ccan seat more than 20,000 fans and will serve as the centerpiece of a multibillion-dollar housing and entertainment complex,\u201d according to Ryan Lillis of Sacramento-based KVIE-PBS. The initial plan that received city approval called for a 12,000-seat stadium that \u201ccould eventually be expanded in future phases.\u201d Instead, Wilton Rancheria will \u201cforgo the smaller plans and begin construction soon on a much larger stadium that could also accommodate 27,000 attendees for concerts, festivals and other events.\u201d Wilton Rancheria leaders said that the privately financed $350M stadium \u201cwill be ready in time for the 2028 season.\u201d New elements in the stadium plan \u201cinclude a canopy, a key request of Republic FC fans, that will cover stadium seats and shield spectators from the warm summer sun.\u201d Stadium seating will \u201ccreate a bowl design, placing fans close to the field.\u201d Officials for the USL Championship club mentioned that the decision to construct a larger stadium than initially planned \u201cwas born out of demand.\u201d The stadium plan will \u201clikely raise questions about whether the shift is part of a broader strategy to attract the attention\u201d of MLS. The new stadium capacity will make it the \u201clargest soccer-specific facility in the USL.\u201d Wilton Rancheria COO Chris Franklin said the stadium is \u201cnot about MLS today,\u201d it is \u201cabout this region and it\u2019s about Sac Republic\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abridged.org\/news\/exclusive-wilton-rancheria-sacramento-republic-fc-expand-railyards-stadium-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.abridged.org\/news\/exclusive-wilton-rancheria-sacramento-republic-fc-expand-railyards-stadium-plan\/\">ABRIGDED.org, 3\/24<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento Republic FC majority owner Wilton Rancheria has \u201csignificantly expanded its initial plan for a new soccer stadium\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,1083],"class_list":["post-234252","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\/234252","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=234252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}