Patrick Mahomes and wife Brittany swap football for soccer as they attend Kansas City Current’s first game at their new $120m stadium – the first-ever built just for a women’s team

Patrick Mahomes traded football for soccer on Saturday as he and wife Brittany went to the opening of the Kansas City Current’s stadium on the first day of the NWSL season.

Built at a cost of nearly $120million on the banks of the Missouri River, with the downtown skyline just to the south, CPKC Stadium represents one of the few facilities in the world that has been constructed expressly for the use of female athletes.

The 11,000-seat stadium, almost entirely privately financed, was christened on Saturday when the Current play the Portland Thorns. It didn’t take long for the first goal, either, with the Current’s Vanessa DiBernardo scoring after 22 minutes.

Mahomes and his wife, a soccer player in college, were front and center of the ribbon-cutting ceremony alongside Current chairman and CEO Chris Long, Kansas City mayor Quinton Lucas and NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman.

The couple then made their way into the stadium and down onto the field as the thousands of fans in attendance cheered them.