Loudoun County's First Pro Sports Team Debuts Friday

LEESBURG, VA — Loudoun County's first professional sports team, Loudoun United FC, is kicking off tonight in Leesburg's newest stadium. The debut game against Charlotte Independence starts at 7:30 p.m.

The team is the United Soccer League, soccer's minor league, affiliate for D.C. United, a Major League Soccer team.

Segra Field, named for a fiber bandwidth company who won naming rights, has a capacity of 5,000. It's at 42095 Loudoun United Drive in Leesburg.

See the Loudoun United FC website.

D.C. United CEO and co-chair Jason Levien is excited to see what the stadium will bring to the sporting world and the community. "I look at this stadium behind me and I think about all the incredible events that are going to take place here – not just soccer games, but community events and concerts, hopefully high school championships and graduations," he said, according to the Loudoun Times-Mirror.

"[T]his is going to be a place where our community remembers for generations to come where life events happened and that’s such a special place to have here in Loudoun County," he said.