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Started play in 2022 in the National Women's Soccer League; moved from USD's stadium to Snapdragon Stadium when it opened. Wave FC's first game in the new stadium set a since-surpassed league attendance record.
San Diego Wave Fútbol Club is an American professional soccer team based in San Diego that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The team plays its home games at Snapdragon Stadium. Founded on June 8, 2021, the Wave began play in the 2022 season as an expansion team. The Wave won the NWSL Shield with the league's best record in the 2023 season, the club's first trophy. The club won the NWSL Challenge Cup in its 2024 edition.
The first of the Spanish California missions, founded in 1769 by Junipero Serra for the purposes of converting the native peoples who lived in the area at the time. In its long history, the mission has been the site of the first Christian burial and the first execution in California, saw bloodshed between the Spanish settlers and native peoples, and served as an armory in the years following U.S. annexation of California before being restored to an active church in 1941. Today, Mission San Diego is an active Catholic parish and a museum dedicated to the history of the mission. Tour the site, with its gardens, museum, and the original chapel.
A park in Old Town ringed with historic Victorian houses.
A historic Mission-style church in Old Town dating back to 1919.
A monument to the hundreds of Mormons who fought in the US-Mexican War.
Take the time to visit the historic site of what used to be the first ever California Mission, located in Presidio Park on the hill above Old Town. The museum includes exhibits on the life of Old Town and a tower which offers magnificent views of the area.