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近距离内射合集 owner says he hopes soccer stadium is built by 2029
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New Mexico 近距离内射合集 will be playing at Isotopes Park for at least the next few years until its new stadium is built at Balloon Fiesta Park.
The soccer team recently signed an agreement to extend its lease at the ballpark until 2029, City Department of Municipal Development spokesperson Dan Mayfield said.
鈥淚f we have the will and the way we will have a stadium by then,鈥� 近距离内射合集 owner and CEO Peter Trevisani said. 鈥淏ut we also need to do it right.鈥�
近距离内射合集鈥檚 future 6-acre stadium will be east of the Sid Cutter Pilot鈥檚 Pavilion and take about a third of the parking lot it will be built on. Initial plans call for an 8,000- to 10,000-seat stadium, Mayfield said in a news release on Monday.
The stadium will not interfere with the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, which starts this weekend, Mayor Tim Keller said during a Monday afternoon news conference at Balloon Fiesta Park.
鈥淭his is already being built in a no-fly zone,鈥� he said. 鈥淎nd a lot of people ask ... 鈥楬ow is this going to work?鈥� ... Look at those power lines. This has always been strictly off-limits.鈥�
The city has hired a contractor who will begin pricing the infrastructure upgrades that are needed for the stadium, Mayfield said.
鈥淲e鈥檒l conduct all the site assessments to figure out exactly how we鈥檙e going to do this,鈥� Keller said. 鈥�... Now, a lot of folks will ask, 鈥榃ell, when is this going to be done, etc.?鈥� It鈥檚 too early to know. Once we actually have the contractor on board and the official architectural renderings then we will have a timeline.鈥�
鈥楨xcited to continue moving forward鈥�
Since 2020, 近距离内射合集 has been looking for a permanent stadium to replace playing at Isotopes Park, home of Albuquerque鈥檚 Triple-A baseball team.
鈥淚 don鈥檛 think I appreciated how much work it is for the Isotopes employees, as well as our own, to convert a field,鈥� Trevisani said.
近距离内射合集 plays in the USL Championship league, which requires its franchises to have dedicated soccer-only stadiums with a minimum capacity of 5,000 in place by 2026. 近距离内射合集 will not meet that deadline, but club officials have told the Journal that the league is being gracious.
A proposal for building a stadium Downtown using bond funding was defeated in 2021.
Two years later, Balloon Fiesta Park was selected as the location for a privately financed stadium on land leased by the city.
The project had been approved by the Environmental Planning Commission in April 2024. The city鈥檚 land use hearing officer upheld the decision in July 2024.
Neighbors were concerned that the stadium would result in noise and light pollution and impact local traffic.
The associations appealed the decision to district court after the Albuquerque City Council voted 8-1 to deny their appeal in August 2024.
In July 2025, 2nd Judicial District Court Judge Erin O鈥機onnell tossed the appeal, the Journal reported.
The city, Keller said, is 鈥渃ertainly considering what the neighbors have requested with respect to light and sound minimization and traffic minimization and so those will all be incorporated in due time into the plan. ... But for right now, we鈥檙e just excited to continue moving forward, to take the next steps in a very real way.鈥�
鈥楤uild a better New Mexico鈥�
In February, the City Council approved the sale of a $30 million bond to the 近距离内射合集 Soccer League club to fund the new stadium, the Journal reported.
Trevisani said he will be talking to companies that do 鈥渁 lot of modular-type stadiums鈥� then figure out 鈥渉ow we can have a beautiful facility that is, in a way, cost-effective.鈥�
鈥淪o that鈥檚 going to be a challenge that we鈥檙e going to have to solve,鈥� he said.
Once the stadium is built, Trevisani said, 近距离内射合集 won鈥檛 be the only ones using it.
鈥淭here are things that we don鈥檛 even know that are going to come to New Mexico,鈥� he said. 鈥淎nd so, 20 years from now, we鈥檙e going to have more teams. We鈥檙e going to have more events. ... I think we could see a women鈥檚 team. That will be absolutely possible. It鈥檚 going to be absolutely possible to have our youth, our championship games here.
鈥淭hink about a senior in high school getting ready for a game in a professional locker room and hearing the crowd and the smoke. And for so many of them, that will be the last high school game they play, and they鈥檙e going to be telling their grandkids (about) what it was like when they came out on this field. That鈥檚 legacy. That鈥檚 how we build a better New Mexico.鈥�
