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Orlando City SC president Phil Rawlins said the club's planned $155 million new stadium construction is behind schedule and the new home won't be ready until the 2017 season, according to a report.
Rawlins said the club will play all of the upcoming season at the Citrus Bowl.
"We've had a couple delays on infrastructure and underground services. ... We were pushing and pushing to get something done for late 2016, and it doesn't make sense," Rawlins, who was in Baltimore for the MLS draft, told the Orlando Sentinel.
In August, the team said it had hoped to move into the new venue by September, but the sale of the land has not yet been finalized, the report said.
The Orlando city council only approved $4.15 million to add the sewer capacity necessary to accommodate the new stadium this past Monday. The newspaper reported that records show work is not expected to be done until November.
City officials have not yet completed the sale that would give the team ownership of the tract on which the stadium will sit, Heather Fagan, deputy chief of staff for Mayor Buddy Dyer, told the paper.
The council is likely to vote on that package at its Jan. 25 meeting or soon after, Fagan said.