U.S. Women’s National Team Will Finish January Training Camp Against Chile on Jan. 27 At Harder Stadium in Santa Barbara, Calif.
USWNT Will Play an International Match in Santa Barbara for First Time; U.S. Women Last Played at Harder Stadium in 1991
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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| Public Sale | Friday, Dec. 12 | 10 a.m. PT |
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