(New York, NY) – Soccer United Marketing, in conjunction with the Federación Mexicana de Futbol (FMF), Thursday announced the official venues and dates for the 2006 edition of InterLiga™, the qualifying tournament that will determine two automatic berths for Mexican clubs to the Copa Libertadores. InterLiga 2006 will be held between January 4 and January 15, 2006 in four venues in Texas and California.

InterLiga 2006 returns for third consecutive time to The Home Depot Center (Carson, California) and Reliant Stadium (Houston, Texas), sites of the finals for InterLiga 2004 and InterLiga 2005, respectively. In its international soccer debut, Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas, north of Dallas, welcomes InterLiga 2006 after hosting MLS Cup 2005, Major League Soccer's championship game on Nov. 13. The fourth and final venue for InterLiga 2006 is newcomer La Joya Stadium in La Joya, Texas, about 25 miles west of McAllen at the southern tip of the state bordering Mexico along the Rio Grande.

The eight-team, four-city InterLiga™ tournament is scheduled to kick off in Reliant Stadium on Wednesday, January 4, before heading south to McAllen for a doubleheader date on Thursday, January 5. InterLiga invades Frisco with two back-to-back weekend doubleheaders, on January 7 and January 8 to close out the Texas schedule. InterLiga 2006 finishes off the first round in The Home Depot Center on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 10 and 11, before the finals over the weekend on Sunday, January 15. The final doubleheader will determine the qualifiers to the Copa Libertadores.

InterLiga 2006 is an eight-team qualifier, divided into two groups. The InterLiga champion will be joined in Copa Libertadores by the winner of the other game held on January 15, 2006 at The Home Depot Center.

The Home Depot Center
18400 Avalon Blvd., Suite 200
Carson, CA 90746
(310) 630-2200
Inauguration: 2003
Total Seating Capacity: 27,000

The state-of-the-art soccer stadium is home to Major Leagues Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy and Club Deportivo Chivas USA, hosting major national and international events, including the 2003 and 2004 MLS Cup and the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup championship game, as well as the 2004 InterLiga finals and several matches featuring the Mexican National Team. The HDC is also the soccer training headquarters for the U.S. Soccer Federation National Teams and offers nine practice fields for training.

La Joya Stadium
N. Coyote Drive off Expressway 83
La Joya, Texas 78560
(956) 580-5100
Inauguration: 2000
Total Seating Capacity: 12,600

On the campus of La Joya Senior High School in the La Joya Independent School District, this 12,000+ seater stadium sells out the home side every Friday night for school football. The Coyote fans are considered to be the most loyal fans in the Rio Grande Valley. The size and beauty of this state of the art stadium gives every game played here an intimate and highly competitive atmosphere. La Joya is about 25 miles from McAllen, along the Rio Grande in the southern most area of the state.

Pizza Hut Park
6000 Main St.
Frisco, TX 75034
1-888-FCD-GOAL
Inauguration: 2005
Total Seating Capacity: 21,193

Pizza Hut Park, home to Major League Soccer's FC Dallas, is one of the country's newest -and only the third - soccer stadium facility. In just four months since its inauguration in August 2005, the complex in Frisco has hosted the MLS Cup 2005 and opens the new year with its first international soccer games - InterLiga 2006. With 17 championship size soccer fields for the local community leagues, the new soccer hub will be a busy site for years to come.

Reliant Stadium
Two Reliant Park
Houston, TX 77054
(832) 667-2000
Inauguration: 2002
Total Seating Capacity: 69,500

The city of Houston has always been on the cutting edge of stadium development. Since its inauguration, Reliant Stadium, the home of the Houston Texans of the NFL, quickly secured some of the most important dates in the U.S. sports arena: U.S. National Team vs. Mexico in May 2003, InterLiga 2004 and the 2005 finals, and the Super Bowl XXXVIII in February 2004. Reliant Stadium has also played host to numerous college football games, including two Houston Bowls and the 2002 Big 12 Championship Game.

Founded in 2002, Soccer United Marketing (SUM) is the preeminent commercial soccer company in the United States. SUM holds the exclusive rights to the most important soccer properties in the nation, including: all commercial rights to Major League Soccer; the United States Soccer Federation and all men's and women's national teams; promotional and marketing rights to Mexican National Team games on U.S. soil; and marketing, promotional and broadcast rights to the prestigious eight-team Mexican club tournament - InterLiga™. In addition, SUM holds the English-language broadcast rights in the U.S. to the 2006 FIFA World Cup™. The most recent addition to SUM's portfolio is the CONCACAF Gold Cup™, with promotional and on-site activation rights to the region's premier soccer tournament for national teams. This extensive list of holdings, which includes numerous international soccer events featuring prominent clubs from around the world, is represented by SUM's slogan: One Sport. One Company.