Dignity Health Sports Park

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Dignity Health Sports Park
Victoria Street
The playing field of the Dignity Health Sports Park
The playing field of the Dignity Health Sports Park
Earlier names

Home Depot Center (2003–2013)
StubHub Center (2013–2018)

Data
place 18400 Avalon Boulevard Carson , California 90746
United StatesUnited States
Coordinates 33 ° 51 '51.2 "  N , 118 ° 15' 39.9"  W Coordinates: 33 ° 51 '51.2 "  N , 118 ° 15' 39.9"  W.
owner AEG
operator AEG
start of building February 26, 2002
opening June 1, 2003
surface Natural grass (football stadium)
Hard court (tennis stadium)
costs $ 87 million (soccer stadium)
$ 150 million (entire complex)
architect Rossetti Architects
capacity 27,000 places (MLS)
08,000 places (tennis)
playing area 109.7 m × 68.6 m (football)
Societies)
Events

The Dignity Health Sports Park is a multi-purpose sports complex on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson in Los Angeles County . At the end of 2018, the non-profit organization Dignity Health gave the facility its name. It has had the new name since January 1, 2019.

history

The central element on the 125 acre (505,857 square meter) area is the 27,000-seat football stadium with 48 boxes and 1,500 club seats. It is the home of the LA Galaxy soccer team , as well as their LA Galaxy II reserve team from the USL Professional Division (USL Pro). Construction of the soccer arena began on February 26, 2002 and after around nine months the inauguration was celebrated on June 1, 2003. After the Columbus Crew Stadium, which opened in 1999, it is the second stadium in the United States designed primarily for soccer by a professional soccer team .

In addition to the football stadium and ten training grounds (two of them with artificial turf ), there is also the covered Velodrom Velo Sports Center with 2,450 places, a tennis stadium with 8,000 places including 32 additional places, an athletics facility with 2,000 permanently installed places (expandable to 20,000 places) and one around five kilometers long jogging route to the complex.

The construction costs for the entire sports complex amounted to approximately 150 million US dollars . The soccer stadium made about 87 million US dollars. Until June 2013, the American hardware store and interior design chain The Home Depot was the name sponsor. Since June 1, 2013, it has officially been named StubHub Center after the StubHub Internet ticket exchange, which belongs to eBay ! . Financial details about the multi-year contract between the Anschutz Entertainment Group and StubHub! were not known. For the LA Galaxy game against the Portland Timbers on June 19, 2013, the stadium was inaugurated under a new name.

Since July 2016, the Dignity Health Sports Park has the first stadium in the Major League Soccer a LED - floodlights . The new lighting will consume 60 percent less energy than the old system. The 15-minute warm-up time for the old floodlights is also no longer necessary. In the case of television broadcasts, the flicker effect should be eliminated in slow motion recordings. It was first used on July 15 when the LA Galaxy played against Houston Dynamo .

The Dignity Health Sports Park is the National Football League team the Los Angeles Chargers - so hot, since January 2017, the San Diego Chargers - as a temporary venue for their home games until the new American football - in Inglewood stadium is completed.

Events

In addition to the LA Galaxy and CD Chivas USA, it was the home stadium of Los Angeles Sol from Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) in 2009 , but they broke up immediately after their first season. The Lacrosse team of the Los Angeles Riptide from the Major League Lacrosse (MLL) used the stadium from 2006 to 2008. There were four group games, the game for third place and the final of the 2003 Women's World Cup , the final of the MLS 2003, 2004 , 2008 and 2011 and the MLS All-Star Game 2003. In June 2005, two group C matches in the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2005 took place in the Home Depot Center .

The football stadium is also a popular place for boxing matches . The AstroTurf NFLPA Collegiate Bowl stopped at what was then the Home Depot Center on January 21, 2012. The American football game between the American team and the national team ended in a 20:14 win for the Nationals . In addition, the CIF State Football Championship Bowl games are hosted at the stadium and will remain there until at least 2014.

The Los Angeles WTA women's tennis tournament was held in the tennis stadium from 2003 to 2009 . From June 23 to 26, 2005, the track and field stadium was the venue for the US track and field championships. The Adidas Track Classic athletics meeting has also been taking place in the Carson athletics stadium since 2005.

gallery

  • Entrance to the stadium in 2008

  • The football stadium from the outside

  • The scoreboard

  • Western Conference Final Game - LA Galaxy v Houston Dynamo (2-0 aet) on November 13, 2009

  • Interior of the
    VELO Sports Center

panorama

and display information about the image
The 2008 MLS Cup at the Carson Stadium

Concerts

In addition to the sporting events, the stadium is also used as a concert arena.

See also

Web links

Commons : Dignity Health Sports Park  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New name sponsor for LA Galaxy Stadium. In: stadionwelt.de. December 14, 2018, accessed January 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ oursportscentral.com: Construction of the football stadium (English)
  3. ↑ stubhubcenter.com: Football Stadium ( Memento from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  4. ↑ stubhubcenter.com: VELO Sports Center (English)
  5. ↑ stubhubcenter.com: Athletics facility (English)
  6. ↑ stubhubcenter.com: Tennis Stadium ( Memento from June 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  7. ↑ mlssoccer.com: Home Depot Center to be renamed StubHub Center in June article from March 4, 2013 (English)
  8. ↑ venuestoday.com: AEG Unveils StubHub Center article from June 26, 2013 (English)
  9. ↑ stadionwelt.de: First LED floodlight of the MLS in the StubHub Center Article from July 15, 2016
  10. ^ Chargers to Relocate to Los Angeles. (No longer available online.) January 12, 2017, archived from the original on January 12, 2017 ; accessed on January 12, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ stubhubcenter.com: Boxing's Summer Season kicks off on June 8 at the Home Depot Center in Carson, CA (English)
  12. ↑ espn.go.com: NFLPA to have Los Angeles game article from November 7, 2011 (English)
  13. ↑ scores.espn.go.com: National team wins NFLPA Collegiate Bowl article from January 21, 2012 (English)
  14. ↑ stubhubcenter.com: The Home Depot Center to host CIF State Football Championship Bowl Games through 2014 Article dated December 14, 2012
  15. ↑ stubhubcenter.com: adidas Becomes Title Sponsor of adidas Track Classic article from April 21, 2005
  16. ↑ setlist.fm: concert list of the Home Depot Center and the StubHub Center (English)