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Legion Field was well known for hosting the regular season-ending rivalry between Alabama and Auburn each year from 1948 to 1988. Because of Birmingham's major industry of iron and steel manufacturing, the game became known as the "Iron Bowl." From the series' resumption in 1948 to 1987, each team rotated claiming home-field rights, with ...
Protective Stadium is a football stadium owned and operated by the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center Authority in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. [2] [3] Since its opening in 2021, the stadium has been named for Protective Life, a financial service holding company based in Birmingham, which pays $1 million per year as part of a 15-year naming rights deal. [4]
Birmingham Legion FC is an American professional soccer club based in Birmingham, Alabama, that competes in the USL Championship, the second division of American soccer.The team was established in August 2013 and played under the name Birmingham Hammers until 2018 and began their first professional season as Legion FC on March 10, 2019.
The following is a partial list of soccer stadiums in the United States. It includes all stadiums in the top three levels of American soccer and some lower league and collegiate stadiums in the United States. The minimum capacity is 1,000. Some of these venues are soccer-specific stadiums. Other venues are multipurpose stadiums, American football stadiums, or baseball stadiums that also host ...
Birmingham Vulcans Birmingham: Basketball: NABL (North American Basketball League) Young Stars Basketball Academy Dixie Derby Girls Huntsville: Roller derby: Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Von Braun Center: Birmingham Legion FC: Birmingham: Soccer: USL Championship: Protective Stadium: Birmingham Barons: Birmingham: Baseball ...
The Sicard Hollow Athletic Complex is a multi-purpose sports complex in Vestavia Hills, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham.The facility hosts the Vestavia Hills Soccer Club, a youth soccer program for the community, and used to host the Birmingham Hammers, a National Premier Soccer League club, until they were dissolved in 2018 to make way for Birmingham Legion FC, a USL Championship team.
The expansion was financed in part by the Birmingham Legion FC, which agreed to an eight-year lease to play at the stadium starting in 2019 for $350,000 annually. [3] Originally named for corporate sponsor BBVA USA, the name was changed in late 2021 to reflect the purchase of BBVA United States banking operations by PNC.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB Blazers) and Samford University in Homewood have popular collegiate sports teams, including college basketball and football. The Hoover Metropolitan Stadium is home to the Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament, which drew more than 108,000 spectators in 2006 and continues to draw large crowds ...