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Historic Crew Stadium opened on May 15, 1999, as Columbus Crew Stadium with a match between the home side and the New England Revolution. It is the second soccer-specific stadium built in the country, after Steel Athletic Field was built in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1913, and the first Major League Soccer stadium constructed in the United ...
From 1999 to 2021, the Crew played home games at Historic Crew Stadium (formerly Mapfre Stadium and Columbus Crew Stadium), the first soccer-specific stadium built for an MLS team, with a seating capacity of 19,968 as of the 2015 season. From 1996 to 1998, the Crew played its home games at Ohio Stadium on the campus of Ohio State University. [5]
The Crew end the Ohio Stadium era with an all-time home record of 33-20. May 15, 1999 – The Crew open Columbus Crew Stadium by downing the New England Revolution 2-0 before a sold-out crowd of ...
The stadium under construction, March 2021. Construction on the new stadium was originally scheduled to begin in the summer of 2019, but after delays, [6] groundbreaking was later rescheduled to October 10, 2019. [3] Upon completion of Lower.com Field, Historic Crew Stadium was redeveloped into the training center of Columbus Crew. [7]
MLS commissioner Don Garber, a Crew fan favorite, was back in town for the MLS All-Star Game at the new Crew Stadium. A couple of hours before he was power-booed prior to kickoff, the Soccer Don ...
From 1996 to 1998, Ohio Stadium was the home venue for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer prior to the opening of Columbus Crew Stadium in 1999. The stadium also was the home venue for the OSU track and field teams from 1923 to 2001.
The first time Crew fans got wind of plans to move a Crew game out of Columbus was near the end of June. One report, from Cleveland’s News 5, quoted Haslam Sports Group executive Josh Glessing ...
Columbus Crew Stadium (now Historic Crew Stadium) was the first soccer-specific stadium in MLS.. In the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, first-division professional soccer leagues in the United States, such as the North American Soccer League and Major League Soccer, primarily used American football fields, many of which were oversized in terms of seating capacity and undersized in terms of the width ...