KC Current Continue to Set the Standard in Women’s Sports

On Tuesday, the Kansas City Current took yet another step forward for all things women’s sports with the opening of the next phase of the University of Kansas Healthy System Training Facility. Members of the community gathered for the ribbon cutting on a facility that is primarily for the KC Current II and the Academy but will be shared with the first team while the Netherlands are using the previously built facility as their base camp during the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

According to co-owner Angie Long, the team had “outgrown” their training facility already.

If you build it, they will come.

And the Longs have done a ton of building. Between all the training facilities, practice fields and the new 2,000 seat stadium at Riverside, and of course CPKC Stadium in downtown Kansas City, they’ve invested heavily in the team and women’s sports in general.

Just at their Riverside, MO facilities, they are up to $52 million in investments.

That investment includes Riverside Stadium, a heated pitch that will be home to the KC Current II and will host the second of two games between the USWNT U-20s and the Brazil U-20s on Wednesday, April 15. The other meeting on the weekend, will be at CPKC Stadium.

Keep in mind, that’s a stadium for a team that doesn’t even have a league to play in! That’s commitment.

The grass at Riverside Stadium is also exactly the same as what’s in CPKC Stadium. It will create a like-for-like setup for Kansas City to train on a field that will exactly match the conditions when they host their NWSL games.

Beyond the stadium, the team now has 35,000 square feet of facilities between their performance center and headquarters in Riverside. The new facilities have locker rooms for KC Current II and any opponent that comes to town. They also have a U18 locker room and a referee locker room.

Another innovation is the installation of their new Goal Station system. It’s the first of its kind in the United States as the KC Soccer Journal was told by the owner of the company who was onsite for the launch. Sporting KC has a partnership too, but this is the first full system setup in the US.

The KC Current opened a new performance center that the first team will use while the Netherlands use their center, but is ultimately meant for Current II.It also boasts the first Goal Station in the United States, something many clubs around the world are using. #KCBaby

— Chad Smith (@chadcsmith.bsky.social) 2026-02-24T23:38:07.577Z

Despite the lack of integration elsewhere in the United States, it’s used prolifically in Europe with 50 percent of the German Bundesliga clubs having it, as well as 40 percent of the Danish Superliga teams. But what is a Goal Station?

“Goal Station will bring advanced sports science and neuro-training capabilities directly into the athlete development environment. Goal Station integrates cognitive training with physical performance through interactive, multi-sensory technology that challenges athletes to process visual and spatial information, make rapid decisions and react in real time while moving at game speed.”

Fancy words aside, a player can get over 1,300 touches in an hour training session. If you’ve ever watched a team practice, you know players don’t come close to that with traditional methods. Practice makes perfect, right?

The KC Current and their ownership are doing everything they can to give this team an advantage.

And it just adds to what they’ve already done. Beyond the investment in Kansas City, they’ve purchased HB Køge Women in the Danish topflight. Just recently, they announced the launch of the Teal Rising Academy in Itu, São Paulo, Brazil.

We had to ask Angie Long what is next. “Well, it’s a secret,” said Long. “We’ve got something coming, though.”

When the KC Soccer Journal pressed if this network of clubs, academies and all things women’s football would expand, Long didn’t hesitate.

“We have ambition to tap into all the various places that can make our organization the best that it can possibly be,” began Angie Long. “And so, yes, at some point there will be additional global investments. How they all take shape and form could be different. In some locations, it might be owning a club. In other places, it might be having an academy. In other places, it might be having a partnership. But I think that using a global network to help develop talent, both on the field and off the field, are two tremendous opportunities.”

One thing is clear; the KC Current are just getting started.

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