page_title: North Carolina FC
section_title: Stadium
hierarchical_section_title: North Carolina FC / Stadium
caption_attribution_description: English: WakeMed Soccer Park. Mandatory Credit: Rob Kinnan-Carolina RailHawks
context_page_description: North Carolina Football Club is an American professional soccer team in Cary, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh. Founded in 2006, the team plays in the USL Championship, the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
  The team has played its home games at the 10,000-seat WakeMed Soccer Park since 2007. The team's colors are Atlantic blue, cardinal red, and Southern gold.
  On December 6, 2016, the Carolina RailHawks announced a name change to North Carolina Football Club in pursuit of becoming a Major League Soccer franchise. The club's home attendance record had been broken earlier that year when 10,125 attended a match against West Ham United of the English Premier League.
context_section_description: WakeMed Soccer Park; Cary, North Carolina (2007–present)
  North Carolina FC play their home games at Sahlen's Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park (formerly known as SAS Soccer Park), a soccer-specific stadium shared by the North Carolina Courage, a team in the National Women's Soccer League also owned by Stephen Malik.
  The soccer complex consists of a purpose-built main stadium, two lighted practice fields, and four additional fields. The main stadium and the 2 lighted fields (2 & 3) are all FIFA international regulation size (120 yards x 75 yards). The main stadium seats 10,000 with the expansions of 2012. Field 2 also has 1,000 permanent bleacher seats.
  The park is on 150 acres (0.61 km²) that the State of North Carolina has leased to Wake County. Money to build the soccer park came from $14.5 million in county-wide hotel room and prepared food and beverage taxes. The Town of Cary assumed responsibility for operations and maintenance in 2004 from the then Capital Area Soccer League, now North Carolina FC Youth. On January 26, 2006, the Town of Cary council amended its lease to allow it to sublet the property to Triangle Professional Soccer through the year 2011 for the exclusive promotion of professional soccer and lacrosse events at the complex. This deal was extended for the new ownership group through 2014.
  On December 6, 2016, along with a name change, North Carolina FC announced plans for a stadium seating 24,000.
  On July 13, 2018, the Daily Commercial News reported that the team is planning a $750 million stadium complex.
  Sahlen Packing Company acquired naming rights to the main stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park on March 31, 2017, thus becoming Sahlen's Stadium. Sahlen's will pay $400,000 over five years for the rights, with $100,000 going to the town of Cary and the rest to the North Carolina Courage organization.
caption: Sahlen's Stadium at WakeMed Soccer Park. Credit: Rob Kinnan- Carolina RailHawks
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