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Arthur Blank announced that MLS awarded an expansion franchise to his group on the 16th of April 2014. The team began play in 2017 with their first regular season game taking place on the 5th of March 2017.
Arthur Blank serves as the principal owner and co-founder of Home Depot. He submitted an expansion bid for Major League Soccer in 2008 and withdrew it early the following year due to budget shortfalls.
On December 8, the team beat Portland Timbers to bring the city its first major sports championship since MLB's Atlanta Braves won the 1995 World Series. This victory occurred during the MLS Cup 2018 before a crowd of 73,019 spectators.
On the 3rd of June 2024, Atlanta sold Thiago Almada for a reported fee of $22 million plus $3 million in add-ons. This transaction broke the transfer record for the MLS at that time.
The official announcement of the team's name took place on the 7th of July 2015. Arthur Blank stated that fans would be involved in choosing the name, logo and color scheme that worked with red and black and gold.