Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews financed $70 million to pave the way for equality in women’s sports

Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews financed $70 million to pave the way for equality in women's sports

Patrick Mahomes is one of the most gifted quarterbacks in the NFL, but he also tries off the field. With his wife, Brittany Matthews, Mahomes made a sizeable investment into women’s sports.

The Chiefs quarterback led a massive funding project alongside his wife to help out women’s soccer. Brittany Matthews is a co-owner of the KC NWSL pro women’s soccer team, and she decided to pave a new future for the sport and the Kansas City Area.

Mahomes and his wife will lead a $70 million effort in building a new stadium for the club. The stadium will be located along Kansas City’s riverfront and has Mahomes and Matthews’ financial banking.

The stadium is slated to have a 50-year lease, and this is the first time a stadium is being built solely for a woman’s pro team. It’s a monumental step towards achieving equality for women’s and men’s sports, and without Mahomes and Matthews’ backing, this venture wouldn’t have been possible.

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Patrick Mahomes and Brittany Matthews pave the way to a brighter future in Kansas City

Mahomes and his wife have truly done something great with their investment into a permanent stadium for women’s soccer. The disparity between men’s and women’s sports is often overlooked.

Something as a simple as a stadium can make a world of difference. The Kansas City will be making its first venture into the NWSL, and they’ll announce their name at the club game on Saturday.

Brittany Matthews owns the team alongside Angie and Chris Long. The two Longs bought the NWSL’s Utah Royals and relocated the team to Kansas City.

What is the NWSL? The National Women’s Soccer League is a professional soccer league that was established in 2012 as a successor for Women’s Professional Soccer. It comprises of 10 teams and two more teams are slated to join in 2022. Therefore, Mahomes and Matthews’ stadiums has bigger implications for the sport.

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Ashish Priyadarshi is The SportsRush's content manager and editor. Ashish freelanced for 1 year in the NFL division before taking on an editorial role in the company. He then tacked on managing content while adding on a writing role in the NBA division. Ashish has been closely following the NFL and NBA since the 2012 season when the Patriots lost the Super Bowl and Derrick Rose was at the height of his powers. Since then, Ashish has focused on honing his knowledge for both leagues in, even writing crossover pieces. In his free time, Ashish is an avid basketball player, he loves to watch movies and TV shows, immersing himself in the cinematic world. Ashish studies computer science and data science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and would love to mesh his love for sports with his technical skills.

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