Louisville City to host Germany’s FC Kaiserslautern

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Metropolis Soccer Membership introduced it would host its first-ever worldwide pleasant this summer season when storied German membership FC Kaiserslautern visits Lynn Household Stadium for an 8 p.m. kickoff on Wednesday, June 21.

Pleasant matches are commonplace for skilled soccer golf equipment, serving as non-competitive matches to arrange groups for a brand new season.

A member of the two Bundesliga, Kaiserslautern sits fourth on the desk and is a candidate for promotion again to the higher-division Bundesliga on the 2022-2023 season’s midway level. FCK has received quite a few top-level titles since its formation in 1900, most lately in 1997-1998.

Louisville Metropolis season ticket members will obtain emailed communication on first proper to tickets. Most of the people should buy when single-game tickets for the remainder of Metropolis’s 2023 matches go on sale Feb. 28.

Those that purchase tickets to Louisville Metropolis-FCK will obtain a reduction to another friendlies scheduled by the membership this 12 months. New season ticket members can even grow to be instantly eligible to buy forward of the general public on-sale.

“FC Kaiserslautern is a reputation I definitely know, and I’m positive most of our locker room does, as a membership with nice historical past,” mentioned Metropolis’s head coach, Danny Cruz. “It’s thrilling to welcome the sort of competitors to Lynn Household Stadium. Given our services and Louisville’s popularity as a welcoming city, we intend to place ourselves on the map for extra worldwide golf equipment to go to sooner or later.”

From Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, FCK was a founding Bundesliga member and performed within the first division annually from 1963 to 1996. Together with successful 4 German titles, the membership owns two home cups and superior so far as the UEFA champions League quarterfinals in 1999.

“We’re wanting ahead to our coaching camp in america and a recreation at Louisville Metropolis FC,” mentioned Thomas Hengen, CEO of FCK. “It is going to be an fascinating problem from a sporting perspective and hopefully a fantastic environment at Lynn Household Stadium. We’re proud to be LouCity’s first-ever worldwide opponent.”

Onside, a German sports activities company, helped make the connection between Louisville Metropolis and FCK. The visiting squad can be in Louisville as a part of its preseason for the 2023-2024 marketing campaign opening on the finish of the summer season.

This marks the primary pleasant of its form at Lynn Household Stadium, however the membership says it would proceed to discover different alternatives for distinctive matchups so as to add to its 2023 calendar.