Ever since the announcement of New York’s new football club, I’d been wondering one thing — where do you house MLS matches in the city? The logical approach is to vie for an existing structure, and the city has done just that with the announcement of Yankee Stadium as the host for the New York City FC’s grand entrance.
According to mlssoccer.com, “The stadium will be downsized from its regular capacity of 49,642 seats to 33,444 seats for MLS matches. The dimensions for the soccer field will be 110 yards by 70 yards.”
Coach Jason Kreis also doesn’t think the baseball stadium’s dimensions will be a problem for his club, according to the article.
“For me, that’s a comfortable width,” Kreis said a press conference at Yankee Stadium on Monday. “If you start going narrower than that, you have some concerns. But when I was told it was going to be 70 yards wide, I was a very happy man.”