ESPN Sports Complex at Disney World is expanding

The ESPN Wide World of Sport Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort will be expanding by early 2012, according to Walt Disney Co. 

"The sports complex is adding four multi-purpose playing fields on the north side of the complex for football, soccer, lacrosse and field hockey. The new fields, which will increase the complex’s outdoor playing fields to more than 30, will be equipped with full lighting and scoreboards, plus digital video boards and audio systems. In addition, lighting will be added to five existing playing fields, increasing potential playing hours for many of the outdoor events that are among the 350 sports events that take place at the complex each year," the company said on its website.

"The demand and popularity of youth sports continues to grow even amid the current economy," Ken Potruck, senior vice president of Disney Sports and Enterprises and Downtown Disney said in a press release.