New multi-sports complex expected to generate $30-50M annually in Jefferson City

JEFFERSON CITY – The United Capital City Soccer Club unveiled plans for a new 21-acre, multi-sports complex that will impact Jefferson City’s local economy with plans of opening in the spring.

Tom Chapman is the Executive Director of the United Capital City Soccer Club, he said the project has been a long time coming adding that the project not only benefits mid-Missouri athletes and their families from traveling every weekend but also the community.

“To have something here in central Missouri that provides not only for our parents to stay home but also an economic driver here in Jefferson City and Cole County, which can change the landscape of what we can do here in this town.”

He adds that it will put all of their club members at the same complex as well, which now has over 450 athletes involved.

The complex will be next to the Special Olympics Training for Life Campus off Christy Drive and is expected to cost around $10.7 million.

Chapman says through studies with the Jefferson City Convention and Visitors’ Bureau the complex is expected to bring anywhere from $30 to $50 million annually.

“We already have 40 events planned for 2025-26, that being in the range of soccer, baseball, softball, those kinds of things.”

Chapman says his vision for the project is to have it used almost every weekend, adding it won’t take an army to transform the field from baseball to soccer thanks to the help of turf tank – a robotic field painter.

“Thin out the paint to where those lines last about three to four days, and then they are gone, and then we just start all over again every single week. It does not matter, we can do softball lines, we can do soccer lines, we can do football lines. We can do anything we want to on this, which makes it very versatile.”

Chapman adds the complex will serve thousands of athletes with the hope to begin on the project by December.

“So that is what makes this a little more unique than everything you’ve seen, is the ability to play pretty much any sport we want to play now.”