MLS team owners meeting in LA to discuss Sacramento expansion

HAPPENING TODAY, MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER TEAM OWNERS ARE MEETING TO TALK ABOUT SACRAMENTO’S BID TO BRING AN MLS TEAM TO CAPITAL CITY. TONI: JUST PALM AND ST IS LIVE WITH -- TISH PALAMIDESSI IS LIVE. TISH: THIS IS THE SITE WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE HOPING IS THE FUTURE HOME TO A SACRAMENTO MLS TEAM, BUT DOWN IN LOS ANGELES TODAY, CURRENT TEAM OWNERS WILL DISCUSS WHICH CITY WILL HOST THE NEXT EXPANSION TO THE LAKE. SACRAMENTO AND ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ARE SAID TO BE THE TWO FRONT RUNNERS IN THE DECISION. THE MINOR-LEAGUE TEAM HAS SEEN BIG SUCCESS IN THE USL, AND THE TEAM HAS BEEN TRYING TO GET MLS SOCCER IN THE CAPITAL CITY FOR SOME TIME. "STRONGER WHEN PUBLIC OWNERS -- THE BID GOT A LOT STRONGER WENT PUBLIC OWNERS RELEASED DESIGNS AND THEN THE SACRAMENTO CITY COUNCIL AGREED TO A $33 MILLION INCENTIVE PACKAGE TO GET THE STADIUM BUILT. THE STADIUM NEWS IS RUMORED TO HAVE MOVED SACRAMENTO AHEAD OF ST. LOUIS, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF FACTORS TO CONSIDER. IT IS LIKELY WE WILL NOT HEAR THE DECISION AFTER THE MEETING, BUT IN THE COMING WEEKS WE SHOULD KNOW IF MLS WILL BE COMING TO THE CAPITAL CITY.

Sacramento may be one step closer to finding out if a bid for a Major League Soccer team will be granted by league officials.MLS team owners who make up the league's board of governors are in Los Angeles on Thursday for their annual spring meeting, and on the agenda is which city will take on the league's 28th expansion team. Sacramento and St. Louis, Missouri, are said to be the two front-runners in the competition.Sacramento has seen big success with its minor league soccer team. Sacramento Republic FC, in the USL Championship league, has been trying to get MLS soccer into the capital city for some time. | MORE | City, Sacramento Republic FC release term sheet on MLS stadiumSacramento's bid got a lot stronger earlier this month, when Republic owners released renderings of a new stadium site at the downtown railyards along the Old Sacramento riverfront. And two weeks ago, the Sacramento City Council agreed to a $33 million incentive package to help get that stadium built.The latest stadium news is rumored to have moved Sacramento ahead of St. Louis, but there are still a lot of factors the league has to consider.The league is expected to release more information in the coming weeks.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —

Sacramento may be one step closer to finding out if a bid for a Major League Soccer team will be granted by league officials.

MLS team owners who make up the league's board of governors are in Los Angeles on Thursday for their annual spring meeting, and on the agenda is which city will take on the league's 28th expansion team.

Sacramento and St. Louis, Missouri, are said to be the two front-runners in the competition.

Sacramento has seen big success with its minor league soccer team. Sacramento Republic FC, in the USL Championship league, has been trying to get MLS soccer into the capital city for some time.

| MORE | City, Sacramento Republic FC release term sheet on MLS stadium

Sacramento's bid got a lot stronger earlier this month, when Republic owners released renderings of a new stadium site at the downtown railyards along the Old Sacramento riverfront. And two weeks ago, the Sacramento City Council agreed to a $33 million incentive package to help get that stadium built.

The latest stadium news is rumored to have moved Sacramento ahead of St. Louis, but there are still a lot of factors the league has to consider.

The league is expected to release more information in the coming weeks.

MLS team owners meeting in LA to discuss Sacramento expansion

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