The ladies’s nationwide soccer group will return to Carson in 2026 for the primary time in practically two years for its annual January coaching camp, U.S. Soccer will announce Thursday.
The ten-day camp will run from Jan. 17-27 and can conclude with two worldwide matches. The primary, on Jan. 24 towards Paraguay, might be performed at Dignity Well being Sports activities Park and can embrace a tribute to two-time World Cup champion Christen Press, who introduced her retirement this fall.
The venue and opponent for the second match on Jan. 27 has not been finalized.
“January camp is a vitally vital a part of our yearly schedule, particularly with 2026 being a 12 months that can host World Cup qualifying,” USWNT coach Emma Hayes mentioned in an announcement. “We don’t get many coaching days collectively throughout any given 12 months, so there’s a excessive worth in getting a complete week of coaching in addition to two matches.
“I used to be happy with the progress we made as a group in 2025, however we nonetheless have a methods to go to get to the place we wish to be heading into the CONCACAF W Championship within the fall.”
Press, who was born and raised in Palos Verdes Estates, about 10 miles from Dignity Well being Sports activities Park, scored 64 targets for the USWNT, ninth-most in group historical past. She helped the U.S. to back-to-back Girls’s World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019 and performed the ultimate 4 years of her skilled membership profession for her hometown Angel Metropolis FC.
The primary 2,000 followers via the gates on Jan. 24 will obtain a commemorative Christen Press bobblehead.
No venue has performed host to extra USWNT matches than Dignity Well being Sports activities Park which, underneath varied names, has been the positioning of 21 video games for the U.S., courting to 2003, quickly after the stadium opened. The U.S. went 20 video games unbeaten on the venue (19 wins and one tie) earlier than dropping its most up-to-date match there, a 2-0 upset to Mexico on Feb. 26, 2024, within the CONCACAF W Gold Cup, a match the U.S. would go on
win.
The USWNT was scheduled to carry its January coaching camp in Carson final 12 months, however the lethal Southern California wildfires compelled U.S. Soccer to maneuver the camp to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Presale tickets for the January matches might be obtainable for buy from 10 a.m. PST Friday via 8 a.m. PST Monday.
Tickets for each matches will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday at 10 a.m. PST.
