It will serve as the home for Sacramento Republic FC, a USL Championship club, with intentions to join Major League Soccer as an expansion team.

[5] In late 2011, a group led by former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez began exploring the possibility of having an MLS team in the Sacramento area, originally looking at stadium sites in the suburb of Elk Grove.

The revised stadium plan, which is not contingent on the revival of the MLS bid, calls for a 12,000-15,000 seat facility that can be expanded in the future should demand warrant it.

In order to meet the designer's goal of creating MLS's best home-field advantage, the seating will feature the steepest grade in the league, as well as an untiered east side that bears similarities to Westfalenstadion's Yellow Wall.

[24] However, when stadium construction was halted in 2021, these events were moved to WakeMed Soccer Park, home of fellow USL Championship club North Carolina FC.