The 2019 US Youth Soccer Southern Regional Championships will be held in Baton Rouge, bringing with it an estimated $20 million impact on the local economy, Visit Baton Rouge announced this morning.
More than 200 boys and girls teams from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee are expected to participate in the week-long tournament, which will take place at the Burbank Soccer Complex..
“This event will bring some of the finest young athletes from across the South to Louisiana to compete for the chance to represent their state in the National Championship,” says
Tucker Reynolds, executive director of Louisiana Soccer Association. “The tournament will also give us a chance to prove, once again, that Baton Rouge is a host city second to none.”
Baton Rouge previously hosted the Southern Regional Championships in 2010 and 2014. Revenue at Baton Rouge-area hotels jumped by more than 41% during the tournament week in 2014, according to figures tracked by lodging industry firm Smith Travel Research.
