The Major League Baseball franchise Oakland Athletics home Oakland’s Coliseum will be hosting nine matches of the Major League Cricket (MLC 2025) fixtures.
It will become the league’s third-largest venue after the first two seasons played in Grand Prairie, Texas and Church Street Park, Morrisville.
The Oakland Coliseum which has hosted baseball and football since 1966, will be modified to host cricket, with a reduced capacity of 12,000 and the planned installation of drop-in pitches to meet international standards.
San Franciso Unicorns, the losing finalists in 2024, will play three home games at the Coliseum.
“We have an obligation to find a home here in the Bay Area, and for the moment, that is the Coliseum. But we eventually hope that we can either take over the Coliseum or we will obviously have to look for a long term home somewhere else.”
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“We’ve been talking to Santa Clara fairgrounds. We’ve been talking to Sunnyvale. We’ll be talking to a number of different locations, and we’ll continue to do so across the Bay Area, until we find our home,” said David White, CEO of the San Francisco Unicorns.
The Coliseum was considered as one of the potential venue for the last year’s men’s T20 World Cup, but the idea was eventually ruled out due to logistical challenges.
David White views that additional cost as an investment to engage with more cricket fans in the Bay area. It will be the Unicorns’ first shot to bring cricket to their home base and the franchise has stated its plans to employ a ‘big brand’ as it’s community partner to facilitate events focusing on community engagement.
“We successfully hosted our family day, which is the last Sunday before our first game of the season with over 1500 fans. We intend on doing it this year too. There’s one particularly big, big brand that’s coming on as one of our community partners that we will be announcing next week.”
“It’s about, how do we engage, or how do we work with them to enhance the consumer and the fan experience. We’d love to have some unique San Francisco Bay Area components surrounding the overall fan experience” concluded San Franciso Unicorns CEO White.
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