The Greenville Triumph and Greenville Liberty will play their home matches at Furman University\u2019s Paladin Stadium in 2023 as the soccer club works toward construction of a multi-use stadium to host matches as early as 2024, the team announced today.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are proud to call Furman University the official match home of the Triumph and Liberty,\u201d said Chris Lewis, president of the Greenville Triumph Soccer Club. \u201cFurman has been a fantastic partner as the training site for the Liberty. Furman\u2019s sophisticated athletic facilities, resources, and core values make it a perfect fit for our organization and playing our home matches at the stadium only builds on that relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since its formation as the Upstate\u2019s professional soccer club, the Greenville Triumph men\u2019s team has played its first four seasons at Legacy Early College in West Greenville. The Greenville Liberty pre-professional women\u2019s team joined them at Legacy Early College for their 2022 inaugural season.<\/p>\n
Greenville Triumph Chairman and owner, Joe Erwin, praised Legacy Early College and its founder, William Brown, for their hospitality. \u201cThough we originally planned to stay just two seasons, the school graciously accommodated us for two more years,\u201d Erwin said. \u201cWe will be forever grateful for the memories created on that pitch, the school administrators and staff with whom we worked, and the incredible scholars we\u2019ve met along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Triumph will continue its Legacy Early College internship program and have donated a scoreboard and press box to the school.<\/p>\n
At Furman, the team will continue to build on the fan experience the organization has committed to providing since its inception, said Doug Erwin, vice chairman and chief brand officer for the Triumph. Fans can look forward to the improved amenities and greater capacity of Paladin Stadium.<\/p>\n
Furman will continue as the training site for the Greenville Liberty, and the Greenville Triumph will continue to use Bob Jones University as its training site.<\/p>\n
\u201cFurman University is honored to partner with the Greenville Triumph and Greenville Liberty, and we are thrilled to host them on campus this season,\u201d said Vice President for Athletics Jason Donnelly. \u201cTheir mission to use soccer as a platform to inspire unity and create joy in a way that unites the people of Upstate South Carolina and beyond both complements our university\u2019s goals and helps us to extend our Paladin reach.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Greenville Triumph and Greenville Liberty have featured several current and former Paladins, including Grace Baghdady, Caitlin Reilly, Camryn Bolick, Cameron Whitacre, Maggie Miller, Riley Parsons, Cambelle Roberson, Ben Hale, Cole McLagan and Miles Fenton.<\/p>\n
The Greenville Liberty competed in the USL W League\u2019s inaugural season in the Summer of 2022, finishing undefeated at home. Greenville Triumph men\u2019s professional team began play in 2019 in the USL League One. The men\u2019s team has appeared in three league finals, including winning the USL League One Championship in 2020.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong>The Greenville Triumph kicks off its fifth season at home against the Richmond Kickers on March 25, and will release the full season schedule Jan. 11. The Greenville Liberty is expected to begin its second season in early May. For tickets and information, visit www.greenvilletriumph.com<\/a> and www.greenvilleliberty.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greenville Triumph, Greenville Liberty will play their home matches at Furman\u2019s Paladin Stadium in 2023 as the soccer club works toward construction of a multi-use stadium to host matches in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":22437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24],"tags":[1787,1786,1788,1131],"class_list":["post-22427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","tag-greenville-liberty","tag-greenville-triumph","tag-paladin-stadium","tag-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}