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The Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer (MLS) play at Dick's Sporting Goods Park, a soccer-specific stadium in the Denver suburb of Commerce City. The Rapids were one of the ten founding teams of Major League Soccer that began play in 1996, and initially played at what was then known as Invesco Field at Mile High before moving into their ...
Colorado Rapids 2 is a professional soccer club based in Denver, Colorado area that competes in the MLS Next Pro league, the third division of American soccer. The team is owned by, and operates as the reserve team of, the Major League Soccer club Colorado Rapids. The team was announced as a member of MLS Next Pro on December 6, 2021. [1]
Colorado Rapids U–23 were an American soccer team based in the Denver suburb of Commerce City, Colorado. Originally founded in 2000 as part of the development system for the Colorado Rapids , the team played in the Premier Development League , the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid .
Dick's Sporting Goods Park, [8] also known as DSG Park, [9] [10] is a soccer-specific stadium located in Commerce City, Colorado, that is home to the Colorado Rapids men's professional soccer team. The stadium seats up to 18,061 people for soccer matches, but can accommodate up to 19,734 for special soccer events and 27,000 for concerts.
It is home to the Denver Pioneers men's and women's soccer teams of the University of Denver. Other teams that use/have used the stadium for their home games are Colorado Rapids 2 of the MLS Next Pro and PRO Rugby team, Denver Stampede.
The team had sought a soccer-specific stadium as early as 1999 due to the lack of control at Mile High. [54] The team's first home stadium was Mile High Stadium, a large American football venue shared with the Denver Broncos. The Rapids played there until September 8, 2001, and had an average attendance of over 13,000 for most matches.
KSE continued to acquire sports teams when it purchased the National Lacrosse League's Colorado Mammoth in 2002 [1] and Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids from Phil Anschutz in 2003. From 2002 to 2006, KSE owned the Grand Prix of Denver. [citation needed]
Dick's Sporting Goods Park, home of the Colorado Rapids. Colorado is the least populous state with a franchise in each of the major professional sports leagues . The state is able to support the teams because it contains a large metropolitan area with a higher population than any other city within 550 miles (885 km).