Venue Detail
San Jose Earthquakes
Revenues From Sports Venues Pro Facilities Report
January, 2010
San Jose Earthquakes
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3550 Stevens Creek Blvd Ste 200 Santa Clara, CA 95117 Phone: 408-241-9922 Fax: 408-554-8886 URL: www.sjearthquakes.com Owner: Lew Wolff League: Major League Soccer Western Conference
Venue
Buck Shaw Stadium, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053 Owner: Santa Clara University Managed by: Owner Built: 1962 Capacity: 11,500 Concessionaire: Neto’s Sausage
Ticket prices
Season tickets range from $198 to $720 Single tickets range from $12.00 to $45.00 2008 average attendance: 13,755 2009 average attendance: 10,329
Financing
The Venue was built for $5 million in private funds raised by Bronco Bench.
Oakland A's owner Lew Wolff reopened the Earthquakes in 2008 as an expansion team. The team formerly known as the Earthquakes moved to Houston.
The team began its new life at Santa Clara University's Buck Shaw Stadium as its temporary Venue for the majority of the home games.
The Earthquakes made upgrades to Buck Shaw Stadium including renovating the full-sized practice field, adding approximately 5,000 temporary seats which increased Buck Shaw Stadium capacity to approximately 12,000 seats. The team also installed a portable state-of-the-art digital video board. The project reconfigured the lights specifically for soccer and expanded the hospitality areas.
Buck Shaw Stadium was named after former Santa Clara football coach, Lawrence T. “Buck” Shaw, and has served as a showcase for Santa Clara sporting events since the facility opened in 1962.
In adding a 14th team, MLS is making an exception to its policy that any expansion franchise must have a suitable home stadium. While Wolff and his partners are negotiating with the city of San Jose to build a 15,000-20,000 structure, political and financial hurdles remain.
Wolff says he is committed to building a soccer stadium but it probably won’t open by 2012 as earlier anticipated. The key problem is finding a naming rights sponsor so the revenue can be pledged against construction costs.
The club, Wolff said, needs about $5 million a year in sponsorship for a 15,000-seat, no-frills stadium. It has secured 20 percent of that so far. (Facilities, Financial, Professional Sports, Venue)