FC Edmonton announced on Thursday that the team will be playing its home games in 2012 at Clarke Stadium, located next to Commonwealth Stadium. The team played home games in its inaugural NASL campaign at the oft-maligned Foote Field.
Clarke Stadium -- which previously played home to the Edmonton Drillers and Edmonton Aviators -- currently has a capacity of around 1,200, though the club will be paying to have 3,000 additional seats installed. The hope is that success in the new facility will lay the groundwork for the construction of a new, soccer-specific stadium at some point down the road.
The team, however, will play its Voyageurs Cup semifinal match against the Vancouver Whitecaps at Commonwealth Stadium. Like the 60,000-seat Commonwealth, Clarke Stadium uses an artificial turf surface.
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