Facilities
Starfire features fields for indoor and outdoor soccer, and occasionally rugby union games, as well as a 4,500-seat soccer stadium previously used by the USL Seattle Sounders and now used by the MLS Seattle Sounders FC for US Open Cup matches, the Seattle Reign FC of the NWSL, and the Seattle Sounders Women of the W-League. It was also the home of Hibernian and Caledonian F.C. and FK Pacific of the Pacific Coast Soccer League. Additionally the complex hosts the annual All Nations Cup. The stadium field in 2004 became only the eighth American artificial-surface pitch to earn "recommended" status by FIFA and is thereby sanctioned for international play.
The complex has an Indoor facility which has two indoor soccer FieldTurf fields. It also hosts the administration offices as well as Mad Pizza restaurant. They also provide a game room for the children.
Starfire also has offices for the coaching and technical staff of Sounders FC. The expansion undertaken by the complex in 2008 also included new fields along with a workout and fitness area for the team. To retain its community-based programs and accessibility, these areas and the fields have some public access.
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