{"id":210896,"date":"2026-10-05T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=210896"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T14:42:38","slug":"soccer-finals-to-be-played-at-new-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/10\/05\/soccer-finals-to-be-played-at-new-location\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer finals to be played at new location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced that the OHSAA soccer state championships November 13-16 will be played at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field, home of Major League Soccer\u2019s Columbus Crew.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ohsaa-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159333\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 20,139 seat stadium in the Arena District near downtown Columbus opened in 2021 and hosted the OHSAA soccer state championships in 2021 and 2022 before the finals moved back to Historic Crew Stadium in 2023, 2024 and 2025. The OHSAA soccer finals were at Historic Crew Stadium from 1999-2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Columbus Crew matches, the stadium has hosted the U.S. Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s National Teams, the Big Ten Women\u2019s Soccer Conference Championship, the Mid-American Conference Women\u2019s Soccer Championship and many other events. The venue will also be home to Columbus NWSL 2028, the elite professional women\u2019s soccer league\u2019s 18th club that was announced in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move is due to turf maintenance at Historic Crew Stadium, causing the OHSAA soccer finals, as well as other fall and winter events, to be relocated to ScottsMiracle-Gro Field to ensure the quality player and fan experience and pitch conditions desired for the competition in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2026 OHSAA soccer finals schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Friday, November 13: Girls Division IV at noon; Girls Division V at 3 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Saturday, November 14: Girls Division I at 1 p.m., Girls Division III at 4 p.m., Girls Division II at 7 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sunday, November 15: Boys Division IV at 1 p.m., Boys Division V at 7 p.m., Boys Division I at 7 p.m.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Monday, November 16: Boys Division III at 4 p.m., Boys Division II at 7 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; The Ohio High School Athletic Association has announced that the OHSAA soccer state championships November 13-16 will be played at ScottsMiracle-Gro Field, home of Major League Soccer\u2019s Columbus Crew. The 20,139 seat stadium in the Arena District near downtown Columbus opened in 2021 and hosted the OHSAA soccer state championships in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 22:52:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210897,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210896\/revisions\/210897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}