ATLANTA (Dec. 9, 2025) – The U.S. Women’s National Team will finish its January training camp with a match against Chile on Jan. 27 at Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, Calif. (7 p.m. PT / 10 p.m. ET on TBS and HBO Max in English, Universo and Peacock in Spanish, and on the radio in English on Westwood One and in Spanish on Futbol de Primera).
The USA’s first training camp of the year will run from Jan. 17-27 at the Dignity Health Sports Park (DHSP) and the clash against Chile will cap a two-game set that will kick off the 2026 USWNT schedule.
As previously announced, the first match will take place on Jan. 24 at DHSP against Paraguay (2:30 p.m. PT / 5:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English, on Universo and Peacock in Spanish, on Westwood One radio in English and on Futbol de Primera radio in Spanish).
The match at the campus of UC Santa Barbara marks the first-ever international match for the USWNT on the Central Coast of California and just the second-ever match in the state of California being played north of Los Angeles and south of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Emma Says
“One of the goals of U.S. Soccer is to take our National Teams to new markets around the country, and I applaud that,” said U.S. head coach Emma Hayes. “Playing in a city for the first time is not a common occurrence at this point in our history so I know our players will enjoy being in beautiful Santa Barbara and our staff are really looking forward to January camp and these matches against two tough South American countries. This is the start of an important year for our team and as always, we’re focused on maximizing every minute we get with the players.”
History with Chile
Chile is ranked 45th in the world and fifth in South America behind Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Paraguay. The U.S. and Chile have met just three times, the first two in a pair of friendlies in 2018, which were also in California. The most recent meeting came during group play at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, a hard-fought 3-0 win for the USA in Paris, France.
The USWNT-Santa Barbara Story
While the Jan. 27 game will be the USWNT’s first-ever international match in Santa Barbara, the U.S. women have some history in the city that has a link to the first of USA’s four FIFA Women’s World Cup titles. The USWNT first held a training camp at UCSB in the fall of 1991 prior to leaving for the 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup in China PR and played two exhibition games at Harder Stadium, including an extremely rare match against a collegiate side. The U.S. defeated a UCSB Women’s Soccer Team that was ranked in the top five in the country by a 10-0 score on Oct. 19 before downing a team of Southern California Women’s All-Stars the next day. Just a few weeks later, the USA departed for China and the first FIFA Women’s World Cup, which it would win to earn the program’s first star above the crest.
The USWNT also held training camps in Santa Barbara in March of 2019 prior to a series of April friendlies – and would go on to win the World Cup that summer as well -- and in late June/early July of 2023 leading up to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The USWNT trained at Harder Stadium in 2019 and at Westmont College in adjacent Montecito in 2023. The USMNT played an international match at Harder Stadium in 1993 during early preparations for the 1994 FIFA World Cup, drawing Romania, 1-1, in front of 9,127 fans.
TICKETS
The presale for these matches will begin on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 10 a.m. PT and run to Friday, Dec. 12 at 8 a.m. PT.
Tickets for both matches will go on sale to the public on Friday, Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. PT.
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| Sales Schedule | Presale Date & Start Time |
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| Circle Insiders Presale (Circle Insiders) | Wednesday, Dec. 10 | 10 a.m. PT |
| VIP Insiders Presale (VIP Insiders) | Wednesday, Dec. 10 | 1 p.m. PT |
| Premium Insiders Presale (Premium & Premium Family Insiders) | Wednesday, Dec. 10 | 4 p.m. PT |
| Standard Insiders Presale (Standard Insiders) | Thursday, Dec. 11 | 10 a.m. PT |
| Visa Presale (Visa cardholders only) | Thursday, Dec. 11 | 1 p.m. PT |
| Public Sale | Friday, Dec. 12 | 10 a.m. PT |
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Additional Notes
- The USWNT has not played a match on a college campus since December of 2012 when the team played Florida Atlantic University's FAU Stadium in a 4-1 win over China PR. Prior to that, the USWNT played somewhat frequently on college campuses, mostly in the 1990s and early 2000s. There have been more than 50 USWNT matches played at college stadiums in the team’s history.
- Of course, the most famous USWNT games on college campuses came at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Ga., in the semifinal (vs. Norway) and gold medal (vs. China PR) games at the 1996 Olympics, and in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup semifinal vs. Brazil at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, Calif.
- The only other USWNT match in the 40-year history of the program that was played in California in a location north of Los Angeles and south of the San Francisco Bay Area occurred on Dec. 20, 1998, when the USA beat Ukraine, 5-0, at Bulldog Stadium on the campus of Fresno State, making it 27 years since the USWNT last played a full international match in Central California and 34 years since a USWNT match of any kind in Santa Barbara.
- UC Santa Barbara is the alma mater of one of the USWNT’s all-time greatest players, forward Carin Jennings. Now Carin Jennings-Gabarra, the Palos Verdes, Calif., product and long-time head women’s soccer coach at the Naval Academy, is one of the most storied athletes to emerge from UC Santa Barbara. She was standout at UCSB from 1983-1986, earning All-America honors and rewriting the school’s record book. She still stands as UCSB’s career leader in goals (102) and assists (62).
- A member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame, she was an important player for the USWNT between 1987-1996, scoring 56 goals with 49 assists in 119 caps while making 99 starts. She famously helped lead the USA to its historic 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup title by scoring six goals with four assists and earned the tournament’s Golden Ball as the best player in tournament, marking the USWNT’s first individual global award. She was also a part of the team that won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for women’s soccer in 1996 in Athens, Ga.
- Prior to the Jan. 24 match vs. Paraguay at Dignity Health Sports Park, U.S. Soccer will hold a retirement celebration for Los Angeles native Christen Press, who recently brought her playing career to an end. Born and raised in Palos Verdes Estates, just about 10 miles from DHSP, Press scored 64 goals for the USWNT (one of them coming at DHSP in the first match of 2020), good for ninth all-time in team history. She helped the USA to back-to-back Women’s World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019. She played the final four years of her professional club career for her hometown Angel City FC. The first 2,000 fans through the gates on Jan. 24 will receive a commemorative Christen Press bobblehead.
