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Energizer Park is a 22,423-seat soccer-specific stadium in St. Louis, Missouri, home to Major League Soccer's St. Louis City SC and its developmental side, St. Louis City 2. It sits next to Union Station in the city's Downtown West neighborhood.
St. Louis City SC's ownership group is led by the Taylor family, founders of St. Louis-based Enterprise Holdings, along with Jim Kavanaugh, chief executive of World Wide Technology. The Taylor family's stake made the team majority woman owned, the first such ownership in Major League Soccer.
The stadium opened on the 16th of November 2022 under the name CityPark, with a friendly match between St. Louis City 2 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Leverkusen won 3-0.
Missouri governor-elect Eric Greitens opposed the funding, calling it 'nothing more than welfare for millionaires,' and voters defeated the measure 53-47 percent on the 4th of April 2017. The defeat looked potentially fatal to the city's bid for an MLS franchise.
The stadium opened as CityPark after Centene Corporation, its original naming sponsor, backed out of its agreement in 2022. St. Louis City SC then signed Energizer, a St. Louis-based battery manufacturer, to a new naming rights deal that took effect in 2025, renaming it Energizer Park.
Energizer Park stands in Mill Creek Valley, a once-thriving Black neighborhood cleared through eminent domain and urban renewal in the late 1950s. The stadium will host eight soccer matches during the 2028 Summer Olympics, St. Louis's first Olympic competition since the 1904 Summer Olympics.