16 Facts About Providence Park

Providence Park is an outdoor soccer venue located in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.

Providence Park is currently the oldest facility to be configured as a soccer-specific stadium for use by a MLS team, and is one of the most historic grounds used by any United States professional soccer team.

Providence Park has been the home of the Portland Timbers since 1975.

The Portland Timbers have sold out every single game at Providence Park since moving to MLS in 2011, and the Thorns set a single-game National Women's Soccer League attendance record in August 2019 with a sell-out crowd of the same capacity.

Providence Park is an outdoor soccer stadium which houses the MLS Portland Timbers and NWSL Portland Thorns.

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Kerry Tymchuk, executive director of the Oregon Historical Society, summarized the stadium's history: "Providence Park has been home to some of the most iconic moments in Oregon sports history.

In 2018, Portland hosted two rounds of playoffs at Providence Park, rewarding the home support with crucial results as the Timbers defeated Seattle and Sporting Kansas City to advance to the MLS Cup Final.

Providence Park has been consistently cited as one of the best American soccer stadiums and as one of the best places to see Major League Soccer.

Portland Beavers minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League had played some games at Multnomah Field during 1905 when their Vaughn Street Providence Park was temporarily reconfigured to host a track and field event.

From 2008 to 2017, Providence Park was used as home for the Timbers U23s of the USL2, a development platform for the club.

Providence Park has hosted the United States men's national team on 4 different occasions.

On December 11, 2021, Providence Park hosted the 2021 MLS Cup after the Timbers won the Western Conference Final over Real Salt Lake and are the highest seed remaining.

Providence Park, then known as Civic Stadium, was home to many generations of high-octane offense from the Portland State Vikings, including from 1975 to 1980 when Mouse Davis, the "godfather" of the run and shoot offense and Portland State Football Hall of Famer, was the head coach of PSU.

In 2010, Providence Park was a filming location of Season 2 of the television series Leverage.

Providence Park was added to the stadium rotation in the FIFA video game series for the first time in September 2020, beginning with FIFA 21.

Providence Park became the sixth Major League Soccer stadium added to the game, and the addition allowed for the access of all three Cascadia clubs' home stadiums for the first time.