WRAL Soccer Center
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The WRAL Soccer Center is a soccer complex featuring a 3,200-seat, lighted soccer-specific stadium
located on Perry Creek Road in Raleigh, North Carolina
. It is situated between Capital Boulevard (US Route 1) and Louisburg Road (NC Route 401), and just north of Interstate 540. The complex features a total of 25 soccer pitches. Two of the 25 fields are configurable into smaller pitches and are composed of FieldTurf
). The stadium is located in the middle of the park.
The site is the home field for the Capital Area Soccer League, which is one of the largest youth soccer organizations in North Carolina. It was the site of the 2008 Region III Championships for USYSA. It is also the site for several large youth soccer tournaments, including four weekends in November and December every year when the CASL Shootout and the CASL Showcase events are hosted.
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Soccer-specific stadium
Soccer-specific stadium is a term used mainly in the United States, Canada, Australia and South Korea coined by Lamar Hunt, to refer to a sports stadium either purpose built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multipurpose...
located on Perry Creek Road in Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital and the second largest city in the state of North Carolina as well as the seat of Wake County. Raleigh is known as the "City of Oaks" for its many oak trees. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city's 2010 population was 403,892, over an area of , making Raleigh...
. It is situated between Capital Boulevard (US Route 1) and Louisburg Road (NC Route 401), and just north of Interstate 540. The complex features a total of 25 soccer pitches. Two of the 25 fields are configurable into smaller pitches and are composed of FieldTurf
FieldTurf
FieldTurf is a brand of artificial turf playing surface. It is manufactured and installed by the FieldTurf Tarkett division of Tarkett Inc., based in Calhoun, Georgia, USA. In the late 1990s, the artificial surface changed the industry with a design intended to replicate real grass...
). The stadium is located in the middle of the park.
The site is the home field for the Capital Area Soccer League, which is one of the largest youth soccer organizations in North Carolina. It was the site of the 2008 Region III Championships for USYSA. It is also the site for several large youth soccer tournaments, including four weekends in November and December every year when the CASL Shootout and the CASL Showcase events are hosted.
Weather Hotline: (919)248-9516