Oakland Roots and Soul Sports Club wants to turn its low-key Alameda training campus into a full-on matchday destination, filing plans for a temporary modular stadium that could pack in thousands of fans. The idea is to shift some home dates away from the Coliseum and over to the Harbor Bay practice site while the club keeps chasing a permanent waterfront stadium. Alameda planning officials are scheduled to review the filing later this month.
The application sketches out a modular venue with room for up to 8,000 fans for Oakland Roots matches, an estimated 20 to 24 dates a year from March through November. Oakland Soul games would be capped at about 1,500 spectators on a handful of dates between May and July. Other sports and community events would generally range from 500 to 2,500 attendees, and the documents make a point of banning concerts and music festivals outright. The proposal is set to go before the Alameda Planning Board on June 22, according to KTVU.
The site is already on the global soccer map. The City of Alameda has tagged the Roots and Soul training campus as an official FIFA World Cup 2026 team base camp, and the club recently welcomed Australia’s men’s national team for an open community training session. Roots operate the Harbor Bay facility with local real estate partners and have been quick to highlight youth programs and neighborhood access alongside pro training, according to Oakland Roots…