The new lease returns the popular soccer brand to Oakland after two seasons.
Oakland Roots fans chant for Oakland before a game against the Quakes at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. OAKLAND — Although it may no longer be draped in green-and-gold A’s banners, the concrete Oakland Coliseum stadium will still host live sports in 2025.Professional soccer franchise Oakland Roots Sports Club has inked a $3 million lease with the city and Alameda County to play 17 home games next season at the Coliseum, team officials said.
Roots officials were expected to formally announce the news Monday morning at a news conference in the Treehouse, a recreation area in the Coliseum’s ballpark. The Roots’ black-colored merchandise can be seen everywhere around town. As the French men’s national team fell to Spain in the Olympic Gold Medal match last week, a fan draped in more colorful Roots gear was seen on the TV cameras all the way in Paris.
It may be unrealistic for the Roots, which averaged 4,000 attendees at their games in Hayward, to fill the gargantuan 60,000-seat stadium. But team officials said they were confident thousands more will begin attending games upon their return to Oakland.of the African American Sports and Entertainment Group, or AASEG, local development firm looking to redevelop the site into a new nightlife hub.
“The entire Coliseum complex is really an incredibly good entertainment destination, and it has kind of an in-and-out capacity,” Bobbitt said, in reference to the property being adjacent to Interstate 880 and directly connected to a BART station.
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