Kickers home schedule released

The Richmond Kickers will be taking the field at City Stadium 16 times in the regular season. In addition you can expect to see, if things go as planned, an additional big name friendly and several Open Cup games.

Season Tickets are currently on sale and run from $75 – $175 for an individual or $375 for a family pass which gives you five tickets per game.

There are five preseason games. The big one will be against the University of Virginia on March 4th, at Ukrop Park. Tickets are $10 and limited to 500.

The Kickers’ preseason test will continue with a home and away series against North Carolina FC, hosting the NASL side at City Stadium on March 15 at 7:00 p.m.  Tickets are $10 and 2017 Season Tickets will be accepted at this match.

The preseason tune-up will conclude with a closed-door game against Virginia Commonwealth University on March 19th.

This is the first year that the league the Kickers play in, the USL will be Division 2.

The USL’s expansive national footprint features teams in 21 of the top 50 U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas and three of the top six populated Canadian cities. This year, team markets reached 75 million people including 30 million who lived in a region where the USL was the only professional league.

“After an exhaustive process working with both leagues, in the best interest of the sport the U.S. Soccer Board of Directors has decided to grant provisional Division II status to the USL,” said U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati. “U.S. Soccer will create an internal working group that will work with the league to set a pathway to meet the full requirements for Division II and allow for the larger goal of creating a sustainable future. We look forward to another productive year for professional soccer in this country.”