What it was like
San Diego FC welcome FC Cincinnati to Snapdragon Stadium on May 16 — an Eastern Conference visitor who carries genuine silverware ambitions and a well-organized identity. These midweek MLS home matches carry a particular energy: weeknight kickoffs at Snapdragon draw a crowd that knows where they want to be on a Friday evening, and they arrive ready. FC Cincinnati has grown into one of the league's most interesting clubs, with a supporter culture that travels and creates noise in every away stadium they visit. San Diego answers in kind — the rooftop terrace, the east lower bowl, the northwest corner where the most vocal home support congregates. San Diego FC are in their second year, which means the first novelty has settled and the real work of building a club identity is underway. The fans who showed up in year one now understand what game weeks look like here. May 16 at Snapdragon is a Friday evening in San Diego spent exactly as it should be. San Diego FC's first MLS season is building a supporter culture in real time — the stadium atmosphere at Snapdragon grows with each home result as the fan community finds its language. Weeknight kickoffs draw the core supporters, the people who planned around it. Snapdragon Stadium at SDSU — parking on-site and via the Green Line trolley to the Aztec stadium stop. The supporter section is south end. It is getting louder.