The U.S. Women’s National soccer team will be making a stop in Philly this October, as part of a three-game friendly series that will also serve as a celebration of the team’s retiring stars Alex Morgan and Alyssa Naeher.
U.S. Soccer and the Philadelphia Union announced Monday that the team will face Portugal twice during the October FIFA window, first at Chester’s Subaru Park, home of the Union, on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m., then at Pratt & Whitney Stadium in East Hartford, Conn., on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 4 p.m.
The opponent for the third game at CPKC Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. has yet to be determined. The game will be the first time the national team has played at that venue.
The Subaru Park game will feature a pregame retirement celebration for Morgan, the San Diego Wave striker who hung up her cleats last September. Morgan, who finished her international career with two FIFA World Cup championships and an Olympic gold medal, coincidentally scored the first of her 123 international goals 15 years ago at Subaru Park, against China.
Goalkeeper Naeher, who played college soccer for Penn State and was U.S. Soccer’s 2024 Female Player of the Year, will be celebrated in her home state of Connecticut in the second match. She announced her retirement from the USWNT last November, but has continued to play for the NWSL’s Chicago Stars, though she’s been out with an injury since May.
The U.S. Men’s Deaf National Team will also play in East Hartford at 1 p.m. against a yet-to-be-determined international opponent.
Commemorative bobbleheads of Morgan and Naeher will be given to the first 2,000 fans at their respective games.
October’s game will be the ninth time the USWNT have played in Chester, according to U.S. Soccer, and the first since April 2022, when the team walloped Uzbekistan, 9-0.
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The team last played at Lincoln Financial Field in 2019, coincidentally also against Portugal, in a game that still holds the attendance record for a USWNT home friendly.
Tickets for the game go on sale to the general public this Friday at 10 a.m. There are presale options available for Visa cardholders from 1 p.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. Tuesday to 8 a.m. Friday through U.S. Soccer’s Insiders program.
The game will also be airing on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English, on Peacock in Spanish, and on the radio through Westwood One Sports.