KC Current continues to break ground with 2nd stadium, expanded training facility
The Kansas City Current, leading the National Women’s Soccer League standings at the season’s midway point, tops the league in another category.
Groundbreaking ceremonies.
The latest occurred Thursday, when co-owners Angie and Chris Long put shovels in the dirt on a new development at their training site in Riverside.
This phase includes a stadium, state-of-the-art performance center and youth fields, a $20 million investment that brings to $52 million the price tag for the practice facility that likely will be used as a training base for a national team at next year’s men’s FIFA World Cup.
“We will lose our training facility to a country and this will be their base camp,” Chris Long said. “What we’re doing here with Riverside Stadium gives our players a seamless experience when we lose a place to train.”
Riverside Stadium will seat 2,000 and will feature a heated grass field. The performance center, along with the franchise’s headquarters, gives the Current 35,000 square feet in their footprint.
The additions are for the KC Current players, and more.
“It gives us an opportunity to develop players across their entire pathway,” Angie Long said. “It allows a pathway for us to build our second team, and perhaps teams underneath that. Now we have the space and facilities to accomplish that.”
The addition to the training facility follows the 2021 opening of CPKC Stadium in Kansas City — the world’s first stadium purpose-built for a women’s professional sports team — and, one year later, the first training facility built for a women’s pro team.
This story was originally published July 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM.