The UC Riverside Men’s and Women’s Soccer Teams play their home matches at the UC Riverside Soccer Stadium (Tour The Newly-Renovated Facility).
The stadium seats 878 people along the western sideline opposite the team benches, and there is room for an additional 278 persons on the grass on either side of the stadium seating.
The field was originally renovated in the summer of 2007 with a new “Tiger Turf” field installed. On August 28, 2007 the University of California Riverside officially dedicated the new field.
The new artificial surface allows both the men’s and women’s soccer teams to practice and play on the same field all season long. Unlike a grass field, the TigerTurf surface needs no rest between competitions.
New turf was laid down in the summer of 2011.
A state-of-the-art scoreboard was added to the facility in the spring of 2008. In addition, improvements to the lighting at the stadium enable both men’s and women’s soccer programs to host night contests.
The first such night match for the women’s team came Friday, September 5, 2008 against Sacramento State while the men’s first night match was Thursday, October 2, 2008 vs. Houston Baptist.
During the summer of 2012, the Highlanders added new windscreens to the fencing around the stadium, team rooms in the South end zone, and shelters over the team benches, complete with misters for those 100-degree days for which the Inland Empire is known.
The fields were the original home of the Highlanders men’s soccer team during its first incarnation from the 1950s to the early 1980s, as well as the original home of the Highlanders’ baseball team.
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