Goebel Soccer Complex is a multi-purpose, $3.4 million project that opened in the spring of 2004 on of land in

Evansville, Indiana Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in ...

. The facility has nine Olympic-size irrigated

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fields and one Olympic-size AstroPlay turf field. The main field and five of the grass fields have lights for night play. In addition to

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

, the complex also hosts

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

and

lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized sport in North America, with its origins with the indigenous people of North America as early as the 12th century. The game was extensively ...

events.

Professional teams

The facility has been home to various minor league football teams including the Evansville Enforcers of the Great Midwest Football League, the Evansville Vipers of the Ohio Valley Football League, the Tri-State Titans of the Mid Ohio Football League, the Ohio River Bearcats of the Midwest Football League and the

Evansville Express :''Also see: Sports in Evansville''. The Evansville Express were a full-contact women's outdoor football team of the National Women's Football Association. The team officially became part of the NWFA and began playing league games in 2004. The E ...

of the

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. Starting in 2021, the Evansville Legends FC of the

Ohio Valley Premier League The Ohio Valley Premier League (OVPL) is a United States Adult Soccer Association, USASA-affiliated league through US Club Soccer that includes teams from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. The regular season of the OVPL run ...

will be playing home matches on the facility’s main ground, Old National Bank Field.

References

External links

Goebel Soccer Complex website
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Professional teams

See also

References

External links