Soccer investment boosts Asian Cup goal

The Mayor of Ballarat, John Burt, says upgrading soccer facilities will boost the city's bid to host the 2015 Asian Cup.

Ballarat City Council voted last night to release its draft budget to the community.

The draft budget contains $72 million on infrastructure spending, including $5.6 million on the Ballarat Regional Soccer Facility.

Councillor Burt says the investment will mean the city can host international events like the Asian Cup.

"It's completion of the project, to bring it up to an international standard and certainly the flow-on from that international standard when we come to the Asian Cup, and we're putting a bid in for that, the use the community will have from that soccer facility will be just fantastic as a flow-on," he said.