Sports in San Antonio

The American city of San Antonio, Texas also has college, high school, and other amateur or semi-pro sports teams.

[2] This beat the city's previous record for a soccer match of 54,313, set in January 2014 for a friendly between Mexico and South Korea.

The facility is an NHRA Member Track and also hosts a number of large yearly events including Bounty Hunters No-Prep, Midnight Grudge Fest, Club Loose Drifting, Summit Series Bracket Racing, and weekly test and tune sessions.

San Antonio is home of the U.S. Army All-American Bowl,[4] played annually in the Alamodome and televised live on NBC.

The Bowl is an East versus West showdown featuring the nation's top 90 high school senior football players.

The season ranges from April to the end of August, when the team competes at the North American Gaelic Athletic Association tournament every Labor Day Weekend.

The club also has two inter-squad teams, the San Patricios and the I.C.A (Irish Citizen Army), that compete in a pub league in the fall.

The city served as a temporary home for the New Orleans Saints for the 2005 NFL season due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

Both the city and the league seemed to be in harmony,[citation needed] with the council voting 9-2 in favor of the new San Antonio team, citing that it would reduce the financial burden of the stadium on the city by providing it with a permanent tenant without extra financial costs as the necessary upgrading of facilities at the dome would have to take place regardless of a team moving in or not.

At the time it was stated that San Antonio had only a fraction of the youth soccer facilities available in other Texan cities of Dallas, Houston and Austin.

The prospects for the franchise were further hindered when it became a political football during the election for Mayor, which was won by Phil Hardberger who instantly distanced the city from any deal with MLS.

MLS meanwhile released a statement claiming that they had planned to withdraw before the election but did not wish to comment until afterwards in order to "respect the electoral process in San Antonio.