Mazzella Field is a 2,400 seat

soccer-specific stadium A soccer-specific stadium, mainly in the United States and Canada, is a sports stadium either purpose-built or fundamentally redesigned for soccer and whose primary function is to host soccer matches, as opposed to a multi-purpose stadium whic ...

on the campus of Iona College in

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. It is home to the Iona Gaels

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, and

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teams, as well as the women's New York Magic of

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. First opened in 1989, it was originally used as a

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that also hosted the school's

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team until the program was disbanded in 2008. The field was the site of the 2008 Empire State Games men's lacrosse championships. In June 2017, Mazzella Field received a new

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surface striped for soccer and lacrosse.

Rugby

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