OLD CITY STADIUM CHAT w/ Knox News reporter Ryan Wilusz • #53

Knox Soccer Podcast

In this episode, Patty chats with Knox News reporter Ryan Wilusz about the plans for the Old City Stadium, which will host the Tennessee Smokies minor league baseball team and One Knoxville SC in 2025 (pending construction delays).

Ryan delves into the project's history, his conversations with Smokies owner Randy Boyd, the development of the Old City in preparation for the stadium, and his reporting trips to Durham, North Carolina, which underwent a similar stadium project.

If all goes as expected, One Knox will move from Regal Soccer Stadium, where it will play its inaugural USL 1 season in 2023, to the new stadium and become one of very few professional soccer teams in the nation sharing a home ground with a baseball team (the most famous, of course, is MLS’s NYCFC’s sharing of Yankees Stadium).

Ryan also hosts The Scruffy Stuff podcast about life in Downtown Knoxville.

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Related links:

* Read Ryan’s latest reporting on the Old City Stadium for Knox News

* Renderings of the Old City Stadium from July 2022

* Read Ryan’s article about One Knox SC’s move to pro soccer

* Listen to The Scruffy Stuff podcast (psst…we’re on it in March!)

* Follow Ryan on Instagram and Twitter

* Listen to Patty’s interview on Knox Brew Stories 02/20/23

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