{"id":180310,"date":"2026-02-16T17:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180310\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:08:08","slug":"san-jose-earthquakes-2026-season-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180310\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes 2026 Season Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      Team Snapshot<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-jose-earthquakes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a> enter their second season under five-time MLS Cup champion Bruce Arena, who took over as sporting director and head coach in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Year one ended with a flutter despite scoring 60 goals (seventh in MLS), and now they&#8217;re looking to replace the attacking contributions of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/cristian-espinoza\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cristian Espinoza<\/a>, Josef Mart\u00ednez and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/cristian-arango\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicho Arango<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Earthquakes will lean heavily on German forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/timo-werner\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Timo Werner<\/a>, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/san-jose-earthquakes-acquire-timo-werner-from-rb-leipzig\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrived in January<\/a> as arguably the biggest addition in club history. They have additional room for key additions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n      Key Signings<\/p>\n<p>Timo Werner: The German international, who arrives from Bundesliga side RB Leipzig, has won seven trophies and scored 153 goals in an illustrious career that also includes stops at English Premier League sides Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea FC.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Predictions<\/p>\n<p>Apple TV talent predict the 2026 regular season for the San Jose Earthquakes.<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9s Agulla:\u00a011th in Western Conference<br \/>\nMarcelo Balboa: 14th in Western Conference<br \/>\nMax Bretos: 14th in Western Conference<br \/>\nSteve Cangialosi: 12th in Western Conference<br \/>\nDaniel Chapela: 9th in Western Conference<br \/>\nMiguel Gallardo: 9th in Western Conference<br \/>\nMichele Giannone: 11th in Western Conference<br \/>\nTony Husband: 7th in Western Conference<br \/>\nSacha Kljestan: 12th in Western Conference<br \/>\nKaylyn Kyle:\u00a012th in Western Conference<br \/>\nLori Lindsey: 14th in Western Conference<br \/>\nDax McCarty: 12th in Western Conference<br \/>\nSammy Sadovnik: 9th\u00a0in Western Conference<br \/>\nBruno Vain: 13th in Western Conference<br \/>\nBradley Wright-Phillips: 12th in Western Conference<\/p>\n<p>\n      New Kit<\/p>\n<p>BUY NOW:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlsstore.com\/en\/san-jose-earthquakes\/t-25673650+z-9235135-2649482723?_s=bm-mlssoccercom-SJEQ-MLS_JerseyLaunch-Editorial+-022026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Jose Earthquakes&#8217; The Dead Kit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n      Odds &amp; Ends<\/p>\n<p>Head coach: Bruce Arena<br \/>\nStadium: PayPal Park<br \/>\nLast year: 11W-15L-8D, 41 points, 10th in Western Conference<br \/>\nAudi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs: Did not qualify<\/p>\n<p>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/Seattle-Sounders-FC-2026-season-preview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Sounders FC season preview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Snapshot San Jose enter their second season under five-time MLS Cup champion Bruce Arena, who took over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[85589,88,1084,90,89,85590,6532,85588],"class_list":{"0":"post-180310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-mls-is-back","9":"tag-san-jose","10":"tag-san-jose-earthquakes","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-season-preview","14":"tag-sendtonews","15":"tag-sjvsskc-02-21-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}