For sale: one sports team

By: Melissa | March 5th, 2008

Don’t panic, its not the Earthquakes. Rather, the new Women’s Professional Soccer League is looking for someone to own and operate a Bay Area team. According to Commissioner Tonya Antonucci, the price is somewhere between $1.9 million to $2.8 million and owners should expect to “break even within five years if they average a minimum of 5,000 paid fans, and that’s doable in the Bay Area.” I agree. Especially considering the fact that the Oakland As and the San Francisco 49ers plan to permanently move to the South Bay. And with the loss of our little USL team that tried, it appears the SF Bay may have room for a new league (not to knock the SF Seals, whose season is starting up soon btw). So to anyone with that kind of cash lying around and the desire to invest in the women’s league, I encourage you to take a serious look at Oakland or San Francisco for your base of operations. But in my biased opinion, Oakland is way cooler than SF so you should just set up shop here. Hey, I’ll buy a season ticket so thats 1 of your 5,000 already accounted for.

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• Goodsport |  March 5th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

  
  
  

  I’d read that Earthquakes Soccer, LLC already purchased the Bay Area rights to the then-upcoming women’s pro soccer league (which has since been revealed as Women’s Professional Soccer) last summer, so it’s really only a matter of when ESLLC will be ready to run the team. Perhaps starting in 2009 in Buck Shaw Stadium or in 2010/2011 when The [Corporate name] Epicenter at San José opens for use?

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• Melissa |  March 5th, 2008 at 8:13 pm

  
  
  

  I read that too (I think in Sports Illustrated) but I’ve read elsewhere that only AEG bought the LA rights and the league wants a norcal team and The Quakes turned them down. Now apparently the league is looking for other buyers. I don’t have any sources so I’m not sure about this.

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• Andrew |  March 5th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

  
  
  

  Would that I had $2 million laying around. How much fun would that be?

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