A professional soccer team affiliated with Major League Soccer’s Next Pro league is coming to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, with play slated to start at the historic Kezar Stadium within the next two years.
The deal to use the stadium, which opened in 1925 and was later the original home of the San Francisco 49ers pro football team, was described by Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office as a public-private partnership that will include the new franchise making $10 million worth of upgrades to the stadium at the southeast corner of the park, while preserving it for public and high school sports.
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