BOSTON — The Boston Legacy FC will not be competing at White Stadium until 2028, the club announced on Thursday. Construction is currently underway in Dorchester, including in the grandstands as crews continue working on site, six days a week.
According to a club press release, the next steps in the completion of White Stadium include “major structural steel being installed and underground utility improvements underway. Over the coming months, the stadium structure will continue to take shape as roof systems, flooring, and additional architectural elements are completed.”
The club will invest $190 million in stadium renovations, while Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said that the city will pay $135 million in taxpayer dollars – which is almost triple the initial estimates.
Until then, the Swans will continue to call Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, home during the 2027 NWSL season.
This news comes just a week after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a lower court’s ruling allowing construction to continue. Located inside Franklin Park, White Stadium will offer a 10,500 seating capacity, as well as natural grass and a regulation-size track with field event facilities. There will also be locker rooms, sports medicine facilities, and strength training spaces.
The vision for White Stadium is for it to be accessible and free for Boston Public School student-athletes, as well as the club, while also increasing overall public access and BPS programming, specifically. When completed, it will become just the second professional women’s sports stadium in the country.
“Throughout this journey, we have been guided by a simple belief: Boston deserves a world-class home for professional women’s soccer and youth sports–a home that will shape the future of our club, expand opportunities for Boston Public Schools students, and serve families and communities for generations to come,” said Jennifer Epstein, Controlling Owner of Boston Legacy FC. “…With certainty now in place, we are excited to continue building our club and our community together at Centreville Bank Stadium in 2027, while keeping our eyes on what has always been the destination: bringing Boston Legacy FC home to White Stadium.”
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This season, Centreville Bank Stadium offered a glimpse of what’s to come for the Swans, specifically in terms of the environment, as it mimicked the exact same seating capacity as White Stadium. Located just an hour outside of Boston, the Swans made history by competing in the first-ever professional women’s soccer game there on May 22 against the Seattle Reign FC and have since then had two sell-out matches there against the Washington Spirit and the Portland Thorns, whom they most recently lost to on Aug. 9, 4-3.
Due to the delays with White Stadium, the club opened its inaugural season competing at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough. Then, the Legacy moved home contests to the Ocean State while Gillette Stadium hosted a handful of FIFA World Cup matches.
The team also stated that it will train mainly at the Boston Legacy FC Performance Center in Brockton, Mass., which will be a brand new, 30,000-square-foot facility equipped with two full-size pitches – a heated natural grass field and a FIFA-approved artificial turf field inside a “seasonal air-supported dome for year-round, all-weather training” – as well as a half-field natural grass pitch.
The Swans will return to Gillette Stadium on Monday, Aug. 31 to face Angel City FC at 8 p.m. ET.
