The Home Depot Center is a multiple-use sports complex located on the campus of California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California. It is located minutes away from Downtown Los Angeles, and features a soccer-specific stadium for accommodating up to 27,000 spectators.

It is the home of the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer and the United States national soccer team. It was the site of the 2003 Women's World Cup final. It hosted the 2003 MLS All-Star Game, 2003 MLS Cup, and 2004 MLS Cup. In 2005, the HDC also became the home pitch for C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer, owned by and named after Chivas de Guadalajara, a soccer team playing in the Mexican First Division.

The HDC also hosts the Los Angeles event in the World Sevens Series, an annual series featuring national teams in the Sevens version of rugby union.

The HDC staged the Supermoto event for the 2004 X Games.

The HDC hosts a few high school football championships in mid-December.

The soccer stadium is often to referred to by fans as Victoria Street, the major access road they take to reach the stadium. The stadium itself is on Avalon Boulevard.

In addition to the soccer stadium, The Home Depot Center features a 20,000 seat indoor track and field facility with a velodrome, an outdoor track and field facility that has 2,000 permanent seats and has seated up to 22,000, and a 13,000 seat tennis stadium. The Los Angeles Riptide of Major League Lacrosse play their home games at the track and field stadium.

It is the home of the Adidas Running Club, a member of the USA Elite Running Circuit, and is the home of the Adidas Track Classic.

The stadium has also been used for concerts, including two-night runs by Dave Matthews Band in 2003, 2004, and 2005.

The $150 million complex was developed and is operated by the Anschutz Entertainment Group.

(Source: Wikipedia)

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