Canberra's Home Of Football is on track to be completed in time to welcome a prospective A-League team, which would likely use the base as a training facility.
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Capital Football has confirmed the parcel of land in Throsby offered by the ACT Government is large enough to expand the facility, once phase one of the development is complete in the second half of 2021.
The ACT Government has pledged $20m to build the Home of Football - a state of the art centre for the sport in Canberra which will include grass and synthetic pitches, indoor futsal fields and an office complex to house Capital Football.
Once the facility is complete in the second half of next year, Canberra's W-League side and its youth league team will move to Throsby and use it as a training base.
Should Canberra's offer to buy an A-League licence from the FFA be given the green light, the base could have another tenant.
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"The Home of Football would be exactly that, the best football facility in the ACT and therefore very suitable for an A-League or professional league club," Capital Football chair Fran Sankey said.
"The parcel of land that we've been able to secure from the ACT Government does have capacity for expansion should there be an A-League team.
"There's already work underway with the government doing their site development. We haven't quite broken ground but we're certainly advanced in some of the planning."
Capital Region FC, a team led by local businessmen Michael Caggiano and Bede Gahan, made a European-backed, multi-million dollar offer last week to acquire an A-League licence from the FFA.
The offer, believed to be worth between $5-10 million, is to either acquire the available Central Coast licence, or that of another expansion team, the A-League's 13th club.
Talks between Capital Region FC and the FFA are progressing.
A Canberra team would be ready to enter the A-League in season 2021-22 which would mark an exciting new era for the sport in the region which by then should have its new home.
James Buckley
James is a Queanbeyan boy enjoying his second stint at the Canberra Times, more than eight years on from his first. In between he's traveled the world, and spent time covering sport in Sydney.
James is a Queanbeyan boy enjoying his second stint at the Canberra Times, more than eight years on from his first. In between he's traveled the world, and spent time covering sport in Sydney.
