Capacity Sports Group is officially on the scene.
The youth sports platform has expanded significantly with four acquisitions — a pair of facilities in Pennsylvania and two tournament operators.
Entering the CSC fold:
United Sports: 218K-square-foot indoor/outdoor complex in Downingtown with 11 fields and 91K-square-foot indoor facility.
YSC Sports: 90K-square-foot complex in Wayne that serves over 1.5K teams and 7.5K individual registrations annually
Sideline Sports Solutions (S3): Operates over 40 soccer tournaments each year, including FC Europa Turf Cup and FC Delco Players Cup with over 850 teams, 14K players
Flag Football Life: Operates NFL Flag leagues at over 25 locations, national tournament across over 15 states and Canada; operated by United Sports and has plans for significant expansion
Terms were not disclosed. YSC and S3 were previously under the Striker Partners umbrella. Striker is under the family office of Richie Graham, a Philadelphia Union partner who is a prolific investor across sports, media, healthcare and business.
CSC launched in January when scouting content and events platform Prep Baseball merged with Bullpen Tournaments, an events and facilities manager and operator.
CSC previously said it planned to host over 300 tournaments this year across about 150 fields with 20M visitors. Prep Baseball held over 1.6K events in 2025 in 47 states, Canada and Taiwan.
Fortified Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor to United Sports, YSC Sports, S3 and FFL on the sale. DLA Piper, Duane Morris LLP and Fleck Eckert Klein McGarry served as legal counsel to the sellers. Ropes & Gray LLP served as legal counsel to Capacity Sports Group.
TeamSnap COO Greg Ludke - on our Tech Heavy Hitters Panel at the Summit - said the following about consolidation in the industry:
“[It] needs to do it in a way that actually creates integration versus just creating rollups. So for all of those who are looking at investing in this space right you need to think about really investing in such a way creating consolidation that brings together a connected experience versus just let's just go pull together a whole bunch of companies under a portfolio.”
He was speaking generally, and not about this deal. But I immediately thought of the quote when I read the press release here. CSG came out of the gates with an integrated approach in baseball through its merger of Prep Baseball and Bullpen tournaments, with facility management as a main focus. It hinted that it would expand into other sports. It now layers in Philly-centric soccer assets and facilities, and flag football tournaments. This is a robust and impressive network already, and there are plenty of synergies here, especially on the back-end. But in the context of Ludke’s quote at least, I don’t exactly see how ownership of YSC creates a “connected experience” with Prep Baseball Showcases and rankings. Maybe the back-end integration B2B story is enough.
A good example of what this looks like on the consumer end would be Unrivaled Sports, which owns baseball-heavy assets and is now leaning harder into flag football. I’d point to what Unrivaled CMO Erin Clift said at the Summit about wanting the Unrivaled brand to signify elite, premium experiences regardless of sport or individual venue. They are certainly being thoughtful about creating a youth sports platform through venue and tournament ownership rather than just a facility rollup.
Unrivaled website: “Our growing network of premier youth sports venues and programming enables athletes to develop the building blocks for success by delivering experiences that are inclusive & premium, competitive & developmental, inspiring & memory-making.”
CSG website: “Venue management is hard. We can help. We run it. We fill it. We measure it. All powered by one unified technology platform.”
This isn’t to say that one positioning is right or wrong, but to point out that there is a difference in how to message control (through ownership or management) of facilities and tournaments. It’s also worth noting CSG is effectively brand new, so the messaging will evolve.
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