Which several expansion projects going on for the Championship, and even more for League One, which city would be best suited for a Championship or League One team?
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San Francisco is an untapped goldmine whose market power would immediately be a presence to be reckoned with.
Non-profit teams like San Francisco Glens and San Francisco City FC have said in their own mission statements that their aim is to become profesional teams.
S.F. Glens I believe will be opening their Treasure Island Stadium where the Oakland Soul will play a game against their Women’s side this W-League season. Now, to become let’s say USL-1 for the men’s side will depend mainly I think in their investors. As for San Francisco City FC I believe they plan to continue playing in their two home stadiums.
Nevertheless, at the end of the day the housing situation could always be most difficult aspect in sustaining professional teams in S.F. (e.g. S.F. Deltas).
(In an ideal world, I would like Bay Bridge Derbies).
That’s great to know, I didn’t know much about any of this until you mentioned it. I thought City and Glens were more so local competitive teams for youth.
I was really happy to see the mayor of San Francisco propose the building of a 15-20k seat soccer stadium in the city, and if they could play in USL that would be amazing.
It would leave every major population center of the NorCal mega region with professional representation:
Sacramento has Republic, with its fanbase stretching from eastern Solano County to the Sierra Nevada.
East Bay has you guys, Roots have such an amazing culture and fans come from Oakland and all over the Bay Area and east bay in particular to support.
A club in the city would add a more accessible, new and exciting sports attraction, with a city that is already very international. Plenty of investor potential as well. Marin I’d imagine would be absorbed by this fan base.
Monterey Bay is the only pro team representing the Central Coast anywhere and I’m impressed by their growth.
The big loser is San Jose Earthquakes who on paper and in theory is supposed to encompass all of the above areas, but the South Bay alone is enough to support the Quakes.
Only thing missing is more nor cal; a USL1 team would do very very well in Chico