Oklahoma City to Get New MLS Stadium

Oklahoma City will soon be home to a new Major League Soccer worthy stadium with a metro sports marketing company partnering with the local developer ADG Inc.

The end of a three-year preparation process, the firm building the MLS stadium is the same one responsible for the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark – now in its 15^th year of operation.

The stadium will be home to a yet-unnamed United Soccer League PRO franchise. Darren Ransely, Director of Creativity and Entertainment for Prodigal said: “For Oklahoma City, bringing USL PRO is a conjugate path for the future to bring in a MLS team.” 

Ransley says the city will have a USL team in Spring 2014, owned and operated by the company.

Prodigal LLC, a full service event management company, based in the city also own and operates local hockey team the Oklahoma City Barons in addition to spending $4 million on the developing the Cox Convention Center.

“Prodigal LLC is a class act and they’ve got great leadership,” said Tom Anderson, Oklahoma City’s Executive Manager of Special Projects.

“You know, I think there’s probably a tremendous market in Oklahoma City for Soccer,” said Anderson.

The current plan is to design and build a 7,000 seat stadium with the ability to expand further to 20,000 seats – the minimum size for a MLS franchise to be considered. At least 10 different locations for the stadium are being looked at for the new site.