Inter Miami CF will continue to play at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, through the 2025 Major League Soccer season, now targeting 2026 as the debut year for new venue Miami Freedom Park.

The club previously stated the new stadium would be ready in time for the 2025 campaign, but confirmed Tuesday in emails to fans regarding season-ticket membership renewal and waitlist that the upcoming year would be the “final season” in Fort Lauderdale.

“The 2025 Season is expected to be our FINAL season here at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale before moving to the new stadium in Miami,” the message said. “We Look forward to having you sign and cheering along as we continue our playoff push!

Inter Miami will provide season ticket holders who choose to renew the membership “priority access to the inaugural season at Miami Freedom Park.”

Some fans expressed displeasure over a second price increase to season tickets since the arrival of Argentine star Lionel Messi in the summer of 2023, and the delay of the new stadium.

“2025 was widely advertised as the year the team would move to Miami Freedom Park and has been used as a “benefit” of season tickets since the inaugural year – “first in line” for Miami Freedom Park tickets,” Morgan Guigon, Inter Miami season ticket holder since 2020 who is choosing not to renew his membership this year, told ESPN.

“I’m choosing not to renew this year after over a 150% increase in ticket prices in the past 2 years and since the arrival of Messi … it’s cheaper to buy tickets on the resale market match by match than it is to buy season tickets directly from the club.”

Added another fan on X: “Messi has missed more than half of Inter Miami’s matches this season. The value of tickets drops by over 85% in matches he misses. Inter Miami logic: let’s raise prices again for no reason whatsoever.”

Prices vary depending on the location of seating.

With 2026 as a target for moving to Miami Freedom Park, Messi may now not feature in the new stadium. His original contract with the MLS club expires at the end of 2025, and it remains unclear whether he will extend his time in South Florida.

Construction on the 25,000-seat Miami Freedom Park began in August 2023, with Inter Miami managing owner Jorge Mas saying at the time that they were targeting a 2025 opening.

“I can’t wait to welcome our fans to our state-of-the-art stadium and hear the chants as Messi and your Inter Miami players take the pitch for the first time in 2025,” he said in a team statement.

In an interview with reporters at the same time, Mas added: “We’re going to be fast tracking everything, targeting having the stadium ready at some point in the summer or early fall of 2025.”

After missing the playoffs last season, Miami currently tops the MLS Supporters’ Shied standings after 25 games.

“I want to start off by saying Hotties for Harris!” Megan Thee Stallion announced as she took the stage at the Georgia State Convocation Center in Atlanta.

The three-time Grammy winner was there to perform at Vice President Kamala Harris’s first campaign rally in the city as the presumptive Democratic nominee. Naturally, Megan wore a bright blue pantsuit fit for a Hottie – complete with a cropped blazer and button down, skin-tight bottoms, and a necktie to match. She took care to sensor her tracks and keep the twerking modest as she and a crew of dancers burst into “Girls in the Hood,” her 2020 flip of an Eazy-E classic. 

As she performed her viral hit “Mamushi,” the crowd sang along, but soon, the real reason the rap star was there emerged as she transitioned into “Body.”

“Now I know my ladies in the crowd love their bodies,” she said fresh out of the Mamushi dance break. “And you want to keep loving your body — you know who to vote for!” As she performed the “Savage” remix, she told the crowd that “real savages” vote.

“I’m so happy to be here Atlanta! We’re about to make history with the first female president,” the artist declared. “The first Black female president! Let’s get this done!”

Megan is no stranger to advocacy. In 2021, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who died on July 19, presented Megan with a Humanitarian Award from their district. When Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, she called out the decision while performing at Glastonbury Festival in the U.K, and led the crowd in a chant of “My body, my motherfucking choice,” echoing a lyric in her 2022 song “Gift & A Curse.”

The rapper has continued to highlight the line on the road, giving it a standout moment at Washington D.C.’s Broccoli City Festival on Sunday, just two days before the rally.

In 2020, when she made her Saturday Night Live debut as a musical guest, Megan spotlighted the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Black emergency medical technician in Kentucky who was shot by police when plainclothes officers executed a no-knock warrant at her home obtained with a falsified affidavit. A backdrop for Megan’s performance at the time read “Protect Black Women” and she used vocal clips of activist Tamika Mallory condemning Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s management of the case. It also included a portion of a famous 1962 speech by Malcolm X, in which the civil rights leader says: “The most disrespected, unprotected, neglected person in America is the Black woman.”

Soon after that Saturday Night Live performance, she published an op-ed in the New York Times titled “Why I Speak Up for Black Women.” In it, she connected being shot by Tory Lanez to other instances of misogynoir — a term for misogyny specific to Black women — in acts of violence, as well as health care, pop culture, and politics. “I’m not afraid of criticism,” she wrote. “We live in a country where we have the freedom to criticize elected officials. And it’s ridiculous that some people think the simple phrase ‘Protect Black women’ is controversial.”