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UWM Sports Complex

Soccer stadium in Pontiac, Michigan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ7880247
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UWM Sports Complex is an multi-purpose sports complex Pontiac, Michigan. The facility houses one of the largest fully enclosed full-size association football arenas in the United States. It features four AstroTurf pitches: three are full-size 110x75-yard pitch, while the fourth is an 85x47-yard pitch. It was formerly known as Ultimate Soccer Arenas. 20,000 square feet.

It has 1,650 permanent seating, a full-service restaurant, a full-service coffee shop, a full service Soccer store and mezzanine level. The ceiling is 72 feet (21 m) tall.

The facility was home of the Michigan Bucks of the USL Premier Development League, a minor-league affiliate of the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer and the Detroit Sun FC of United Women's Soccer. The Detroit Mechanix of the American Ultimate Disc League use the facility as well.

In 2020, it was acquired by United Wholesale Mortgage for $23.3 million, with the intention to keep the stadium open to the public and also become part of the company's Pontiac, Michigan campus.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “UWM Sports Complex” is soccer stadium in Pontiac, Michigan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sports, Complex and Soccer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008. For this dossier, Sports, Complex and Soccer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from UWM Sports Complex” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.