Lockhart Stadium is a stadium located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. It is currently home to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers of North American Soccer League. In the past, Lockhart was the home field for both the original Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the original North American Soccer League as well as Miami Fusion F.C. of Major League Soccer.
D.C. United's 1998 victory over Vasco da Gama in the Interamerican Cup was also held there. The field is a FIFA-regulation field 75 yards by 116.
Built in 1959 as an athletic facility for local high schools, it is part of a sports complex that also includes Fort Lauderdale Stadium. Previously the stadium was used for high school football games for Fort Lauderdale High School, Stranahan High School, Northeast High School, and Dillard High School for home high school football games. The stadium also served as the home of the Florida Atlantic University football team from 2003 until 2010 (beginning in 2011, the Florida Atlantic Owls football team began playing at an on-campus stadium in Boca Raton).
Lockhart Stadium was host to the 2007 Caribbean Carnival for Broward County, after Miramar turned their request down.
Lockhart Stadium also hosted the 2008 and 2009 MLS Combines. Billy Graham's final South Florida crusade took place at the Stadium in 1985.
Famous quotes containing the words lockhart and/or stadium:
“As a cure for the cold, take your toddy to bed, put one bowler hat at the foot, and drink until you see two.”
—Robert Bruce, Sir Lockhart (1886–1970)
“The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)