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hether you are an observer or a participant, Fayetteville and Cumberland
County offer a variety of sports activities. Fans have access to no fewer
than six professional teams that call Fayetteville home, as well as a
collegiate summer baseball league and one of the region's top dirt-track speedways
where you can watch or participate in the action.
For those with a competitive nature, the county also features some of the best golf
courses in the state and a half marathon celebrating our military heroes at Fort Liberty.
e top sports attraction is found in the heart of downtown Fayetteville at Segra
Stadium, the $40 million home of the city's Low-A East minor league baseball franchise.
e Fayetteville Woodpeckers are an affiliate of the major league Houston Astros. ey
play a 132-game schedule from early April to mid-September.
Half of those games will be played at Segra Stadium, where more than 176,000 have
poured through the gates in a year.
Tickets to home games can be purchased for the full season, in multigame packages or
for single games online at the team website, milb.com/fayetteville/tickets/single-game-
tickets, or at the Segra Stadium box office.
Get in the game
Sports scene has all the action for players, spectators.
FAYETTEVILLE MARKSMEN
The Fayetteville Marksmen, Fayetteville's
longest-running professional team, has
been playing in one form or another since
2002 and now compete in the independent
Southern Professional Hockey League. The
Marksmen play a 56-game regular-season
schedule from October to April with home
games at the Crown Coliseum.
Fans interested in tickets to the Marksmen's
games can order at the team website,
marksmenhockey.com/tickets/season-
tickets/, or purchase them on game day at the
Crown Coliseum box office.
FAYETTEVILLE FURY
One of the latest sports to enter Fayetteville's
professional market is indoor soccer. The
National Indoor Soccer League announced in
August 2021 that one of its four franchises
would play at the Crown Coliseum. The
league uses a format in which each market
has both men's and women's teams that play
back-to-back on game day.
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