WakeMed Soccer Park
- Carolina RailHawks FC ( NASL ) (since 2007)
- Carolina Courage ( WUSA ) ( 2002-2003)
- Cary Clarets ( USL PDL) ( 2002-2008 )
- NC State Wolfpack ( NCAA Football ) (since 2002)
The WakeMed Soccer Park is a football sports park in the U.S. city of Cary in Raleigh, North Carolina.
History
The plant was built in 2001 under the name State Capital Soccer Park. The stadium had a capacity of 7,130 spectators.
The 607 035 m2 ( 250 acres) large complex consists of the main stadium, two training courses (2nd place with 1,000 seats and 3rd place) with floodlights and four soccer fields and six buildings with ao Dressing rooms, bedrooms and living rooms. Further facilities include 2,500 parking spaces. The large stadium has 10,000 seats. The main stadium and the two floodlit courts comply with the dimensions 110 × 69 meters and the lighting of the FIFA regulations.
The town of Cary and WakeMed Health and Hospitals agreed on 27 September 2007 a new name agreement for the sports park. Since 1 January 2008, the facility has been officially named WakeMed Soccer Park.
The stadium served as the home of the 2002-2003 Carolina Courage of the Women's Football WUSA. After a year on the Fetzer Field of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002, the team moved into the new facility with the sponsor names SAS Soccer Park in. Carolina Courage, for, inter alia, also took the former, German national player Birgit Prinz, had to stop after the end of the WUSA game operation in 2003. Also in 2002 came the NCAA men's and women's soccer teams at the University of North Carolina State University named Wolfpack added. Even from the start, had their home in the park, the Cary Clarets from the USL Premier Development League ( USL PDL). The Clarets attracted in 2008, a year before its dissolution in the Middle Creek Park of Cary has to offer.
Since 2007, the Carolina RailHawks FC of the D2 Pro League one of the users of the main stadium. Since 2011, enter the RailHawks in the North American Soccer League ( NASL ).
2011-2012, the capacity of 7,130 spectators was extended to 10,000. In addition, a new, three-story Gebäüde was built on the east side with team facilities, concessions, restrooms and multipurpose room. The project cost 6.5 million U.S. dollars.
Events
Two times the national team was present at training camp before the World Championships. Several international football match was held in the main stadium. In addition, the plant is often used for the playoffs college football leagues.
- 2002: Training camp of the national football team of the United States for the 2002 World Cup
- 2003 WUSA All-Star Game
- 2003 NCAA Women's College Cup
- 2003: ACC Soccer Championships
- 2004: ACC Soccer Championships
- 2004 NCAA Women's College Cup
- 2005: ACC Soccer Championships
- 2005 NCAA Men 's College Cup
- 2006: international match of the men - USA vs. Jamaica
- 2006: Training camp of the national football team of the United States for the 2006 World Cup
- 2006: USL First Division All-Star Game against Sheffield Wednesday
- 2006: National team of women - USA vs. Canada
- 2006: ACC Women's Soccer Championships
- 2006 NCAA Women's College Cup
- 2007: international match of the men - El Salvador against Honduras
- 2007 ACC Men 's Soccer Championships
- 2007 NCAA Men 's College cup
- 2008 NCAA Women's College Cup
- 2009 NCAA Men 's College Cup
- 2009: international match of the men - Panama to Honduras
- 2010: ACC Women's Soccer Championships
- 2010: ACC Men 's Soccer Championships
- 2010: NCAA Women's College Cup
- 2011: National team of women - USA vs. Japan
- 2011: Training Camp of the men 's national soccer team of the United States