Creve Coeur Park Soccer Complex
2023 NACo Achievement Award Winner
St. Louis County, Mo., MO
Best In Category
About the Program
Category: Parks and Recreation (Best in Category)
Year: 2023
Creve Coeur Park Soccer Complex, which opened in February of 2018, was the culmination of a united effort of cooperation and vision between St. Louis County Parks, the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission and the St. Louis-area club soccer community. The result is 13 synthetic turf fields, including a standalone championship field with permanent seating for 500 spectators, and an oversized natural grass Super Pitch. Beyond the fields, the complex affords visitors ample concessions, restrooms, and lighted parking areas along with new park trail to Creve Coeur Lake. There are more than 1,200 paved parking spots with more than 300 overflow grass spots available. Event merchandising vendors are accounted for with an expansive concrete area, dedicated Wi-Fi and electricity that they can provide tournament amenities from for visitors in the Central Village. Additionally, dedicated fiber-based bandwith enables livestreaming on the Championship Field along with a PA system and digital scoreboard. The 110-acre complex footprint sits on the western edge of Creve Coeur Memorial Lake inside St. Louis County’s largest park. The purpose of the complex was to reimagine existing park space to fill a strong local demand for game, training and tournament space for St. Louis’ robust youth soccer landscape and to make St. Louis’ central location in the Midwest a destination site for regional and national events. The outcome has seen Creve Coeur Park Soccer Complex flourish in filling its purpose locally, regionally and nationally as it has established itself as an epicenter of soccer play in its first five years of operation, regularly hosting US Youth Soccer regional championships, an ECNL national championship, Missouri Youth Soccer Association (MYSA) State Cups, college soccer, MLS Next Pro professional and MLS Next academy training and games among other events all resulting in a major new positive economic impact on the area.