Chattanooga FC can still refer to “Fort Finley” as its primary home.
Less than two days after CFC won its first MLS Next Pro crown with a 1-0 downing of LAFC 2, the championship soccer club announced a five-year extension with Finley Stadium.
Sunday night’s title match drew 10,228 fans to Finley, setting a record for an MLS Next Pro title match.
The new agreement calls for Finley to be CFC’s chief residence but that the team could have three or four opportunities to play elsewhere, such as Erlanger Park. CFC posted a 1-0 win over Miami CF II on July 4 before an Erlanger Park crowd of 6,017, which set a regular-season record for the club that was founded in 2009.
“We think it’s really important as we continue to grow to keep multiple options for revenue on the table,” Chad Emerson, who became CFC’s first managing director of business operations back in February, said Tuesday after the quarterly Stadium Corp. meeting. “We had a great experience at Erlanger, but obviously Fort Finley has been and will be our primary home going forward.