“On behalf of Lenore Hanauer, we are excited to make this additional commitment to soccer in our community and specifically to the women’s game in our region,” said Sounders FC Owner Adrian Hanauer. For the Hanauers, the move is a natural step for a family that has had a lifelong connection to the sport, with Lenore also being a huge women’s soccer and Reign FC fan. That means that despite this new location-sharing arrangement and expanded ownership group, Reign FC will remain officially unaffiliated with the Sounders and their USL team. Adrian Hanauer and his mother, Lenore, will become minority owners - a personal move for Hanauer that is unrelated to his role with the Sounders. With this move further south on I-5, Bill and Teresa Predmore welcome new owners into the Reign FC family. “The more we talked, the more we believed Tacoma could be an ideal long-term option for our organization.” We found their vision for growing the game in Tacoma extremely compelling,” owner Bill Predmore shared in a Reign FC release. “Over the last year we spent a significant amount of time with the group operating the Rainiers and Sounders FC’s USL squad. Reign FC will also train at a to-be-confirmed location in Tacoma, with players moving a bit further south to be closer to their new home. Should this be completed, it would become Reign FC’s permanent home alongside the Defiance. Meanwhile, the city continues to advance plans to re-purpose Heidelberg/Davis Park into a soccer stadium, something that is expected to happen in 2021.

We look forward to an exciting, and busy, 2019 in Cheney Stadium.” “The addition of Reign FC to Tacoma matters, and shows the power behind great partnerships. “This is a special day for Tacoma, and speaks to what’s possible with great partners, and we should be proud of that,” said Tacoma Rainiers President Aaron Artman. The move is similar in nature to the Seattle Sounders joint venture with the Tacoma Rainiers, which has allowed the team to operate their USL club in Tacoma. The rest of the club’s changes are a bit more significant and will take longer to unpack.īeginning in 2019, Reign FC will play home matches at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, which also is home to the Tacoma Defiance - formerly of Sounders 2 fame. Given they will no longer be located in Seattle, the team is shifting from Seattle Reign FC to just Reign FC - and unveiled a new visual identity that retains the essential elements of its previous shield, with a few bold adjustments. On Wednesday afternoon, additional local partnerships were brought into the fold, as Reign FC announced a series of changes for the club in 2019 - including a move to Tacoma, new minority owners, and a slight name change. First it was a new sponsor, Zulily, that united Seattle’s two largest professional soccer teams.

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