by Boston’s NWSL expansion team,
Boston Legacy FC
, made a pair of announcements on Monday as the team continues its preparations for a debut season in 2026.
In infrastructure news, the club revealed its plan to build a 24-acre training center in Brockton, which it hopes to break ground on in August and complete in January in time for the team’s first preseason training.
“The club intends to build a $27-million, privately-funded performance center in Brockton,” noted a team statement.
“Construction on the approximately 24-acre complex is scheduled to be ready for players by the start of the 2026 NWSL preseason.”
The center will contain:
- A 30,000 square-foot building that will include “workout spaces, sports medicine, film room, kitchen, hydrotherapy, and staff offices”
- “Six total fields, including two grass fields, with at least one heated field”
- A bubble dome
- Three turf fields
“When complete, several of the fields will be available for community youth soccer use,” the team release also noted.
“I have supported this complex from day one because it’s a true win-win for Brockton,” said Brockton mayor Robert Sullivan via the Legacy statement. “It honors our rich sports legacy as the ‘City of Champions’ while creating new opportunities for our young soccer players with high-quality playing fields
and inspiration for the future. I am deeply grateful to the Boston Legacy Football Club and Boston Unity Soccer Partners for their proposed investment in our community.”
The Legacy are planning to play games at a renovated White Stadium, but controlling partner Jennifer Epstein
revealed last September
that the club was also looking for a site to build a training facility. League games will
initially
be played at Gillette Stadium when the Legacy make an NWSL debut next year.
The day’s other
announcement
pertained to the team’s ownership situation. Indiana Fever forward Aliyah Boston, a former basketball standout at Worcester Academy, has joined the club’s investment group.
Boston, 23, had her No. 00 retired by Worcester. She went on to lead South Carolina to an NCAA championship before being selected first overall by Indiana in 2023. She will play alongside Caitlin Clark and her Fever teammates during an upcoming matchup against the Connecticut Sun at TD Garden on July 15 at 8 p.m.
“This city helped raise me, and the support I felt here shaped so much of who I am,” Boston
said
in a statement.
“And yes,” she concluded, “Boston repping Boston just felt right!”
Hayden Bird is a sports staff writer for Boston.com, where he has worked since 2016. He covers all things sports in New England.
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