Massive new soccer facility to open in wine country
— Hundreds of San Diego-area soccer parents are, sooner or later, going to be heading for Riverside County's wine country.Temecula-based Arsenal FC plans to open a massive new soccer facility at Galway Downs, an equestrian center just minutes from several wineries. The proposed 63 acres of grass soccer fields would replace Arsenal FC’s old facility — the John Blanche Memorial Soccer Complex — which shut down in December.
The new facility, approximately seven miles east of Interstate 15 in a rural, unincorporated section of Riverside County, will host Arsenal FC’s home games, tournaments and likely be used for several other major youth soccer events that will draw teams from Chula Vista to Carlsbad. The old John Blanche facility hosted numerous local, regional and national tournaments that attracted hundreds of teams from San Diego County.
“We’re keeping a close eye on the progress of the facility,” California State Soccer Association-South CEO John Weinerth said. “It will absolutely have strong consideration for Cal South events.”
The project was originally approved in February by the Riverside County Planning Commission. Residents hoping to block it filed an appeal, but that was rejected by the commission last month.
Plans call for 24 soccer fields, including six that will have lights, according to a Riverside County Planning Department staff report. The facility will also have 1,930 parking spaces.
Although it is primarily being built for soccer, the fields would also be open to youth football, lacrosse, ultimate Frisbee, cross-country running, field hockey and “other similar recreational activities and regional tournaments,” the staff report says.
There are approximately 45,000 youth soccer players in San Diego County, Weinerth said, and Galway Downs would provide many teams with a closer potential destination during the spring tournament season.
This past spring, many competitive teams from the county traveled to faraway locations such as Bakersfield, Lancaster, Apple Valley and San Bernardino to compete in Cal South’s State Cup and National Cup competitions.
“For us, it’s a positive,” Weinerth said. “Our mission is to govern and grow the game in a responsible way, and having fields to play on is a critical part of that.”
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