{"id":184975,"date":"2026-03-10T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184975\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:40:11","slug":"280m-sports-performance-hub-miami-fc-stadium-break-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184975\/","title":{"rendered":"$280M Sports Performance Hub, Miami FC stadium break ground"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Miami<\/p>\n

Miami FC will have a new 10,000-seat stadium as part of the Sports Performance Hub in Homestead, a 92-acre, $280 million sports and education complex that began construction in March 2026.<\/p>\n

Sports Performance Hub<\/p>\n

Inter Miami isn\u2019t the only South Florida professional soccer team getting a new home. Miami FC, the local USL team, which plays at FIU\u2019s Pitbull Stadium, will relocate to a new 10,000-seat venue in Homestead over the next few years.<\/p>\n

The stadium is part of the Sports Performance Hub (SPH), a 92-acre, privately funded $280 million sports and education campus that celebrated its groundbreaking last week at the former Homestead Sports Complex.<\/p>\n

The project is led by a group of global athletes and entrepreneurs, including retired Argentine soccer legend Juan Sebasti\u00e1n Ver\u00f3n, Dario Sala, and Olympic gold medalist Pepe Sanchez. Co-Founders Gaston Remy, Emiliano Fern\u00e1ndez Balagu\u00e9, Riccardo Silva (majority owner of Miami FC), Nick Sakiewicz (longtime sports executive and real estate developer), and former Argentine NBA star Manu Ginobili, tennis pros Juan \u201cPico\u201d M\u00f3naco and Mariano Zabaleta, and NFL veteran Martin Gramatica.<\/p>\n

In addition to the Miami FC stadium, which will host the Homestead Championship Rodeo and other community events, SPH will include multi-sport academies offering specialized training and expert coaching in soccer, tennis, basketball, baseball, and football; a boarding school for 600 student-athletes; a sports-themed hotel; a sports medicine center; a children\u2019s park and public recreation facilities.<\/p>\n

\"City City officials, Sports Performance Hub officials and Miami FC officials and players attend the March 2, 2026 groundbreaking of the Sports Performance Hub in Homestead, a 92-acre, $280 million sports and education complex that will include a 10,000-seat stadium for Miami FC soccer team. David Badia Sports Performance Hub <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re creating a place where young athletes can dream bigger, families can see real opportunity close to home, and the Homestead community can thrive alongside them,\u201d said Sakiewicz, CEO of Sports Performance Hub. \u201cBy bringing together elite multi-sport training, education, and hospitality, we are building an ecosystem that supports the whole athlete and strengthens the local economy for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Homestead Mayor Steven D. Losner added: \u201cThis project represents more than new fields and facilities \u2014 it\u2019s an investment in our people. The Sports Performance Hub will open doors for our youth, create jobs for our residents, and position Homestead as a destination for opportunity, wellness, and world-class competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

The project is supported by a $280 million investment, excluding approximately $60 million in land value under an 80-year lease with the City of Homestead.<\/p>\n

Development will occur in two phases: Phase 1 (2025\u20132026) will establish non-residential academies and training infrastructure. Phase 2 (2026\u20132027) will add the hotel, student housing, and the Miami FC home stadium.<\/p>\n

SPH holds a 60 percent majority stake in Miami FC. During the groundbreaking, Miami FC also announced a partnership with Avianca, establishing the Colombian airline as the team\u2019s main uniform sponsor and exclusive carrier.<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
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Michelle Kaufman<\/a><\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/p>\n

Miami Herald sportswriter Michelle Kaufman has covered 14 Olympics, six World Cups, Wimbledon, U.S. Open, NCAA Basketball Tournaments, NBA Playoffs, Super Bowls and has been the soccer writer and University of Miami basketball beat writer for 25 years. She was born in Frederick, Md., and grew up in Miami.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami FC will have a new 10,000-seat stadium as part of the Sports Performance Hub in Homestead, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[87004,87002,123,87001,125,124,87003,9116],"class_list":["post-184975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-homestead-fl","tag-homestead-sports-complex","tag-miami","tag-miami-fc-stadium","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sports-performance-hub","tag-usl-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}