{"id":127960,"date":"2026-01-22T16:20:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127960\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:20:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T16:20:29","slug":"tampa-bay-rowdies-announce-2026-preseason-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/127960\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Rowdies announce 2026 preseason schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fans have the opportunity to see the Rowdies four times at Al Lang Stadium.<\/p>\n

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The Tampa Bay Rowdies have announced their 2026 preseason schedule to kick off their USL Championship season.<\/p>\n

The team will play eight games at Al Lang Stadium, four of them being open to the public, including two against Major League Soccer teams (Philadelphia Union, CF Montreal).\u00a0<\/p>\n

The final public game will be the “Cochol Cup” against Sarasota Paradise (USL League One). The game is in honor of John Cochol, a longtime United Soccer League executive, who passed away last year following a long battle with cancer. Proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit a charity chosen by John Cochol’s family.<\/p>\n

The Tampa Bay Rowdies are coming off a nine-win, 14-loss, and seven-draw campaign, having missed the playoffs this past season. This will be Dominic Casciato’s first full season after joining the team midseason in July of last year.<\/p>\n


\nRowdies 2026 preseason schedule <\/p>\n

Jan. 24 \u2013 vs New York City FC, 10:30 a.m. (Closed Doors)\u00a0Jan. 28 \u2013 vs St. Louis City SC, 11 a.m. (Closed Doors)\u00a0Feb. 7 \u2013 vs Philadelphia Union, at Al Lang Stadium \u2013 6 p.m. (Open to Public)*\u00a0Feb. 14 \u2013 vs CF Montr\u00e9al, at Al Lang Stadium \u2013 6 p.m. (Open to Public)*\u00a0Feb. 18 \u2013 vs FC Naples, at Al Lang Stadium \u2013 6 p.m. (Open to Public)*\u00a0Feb. 21 \u2013 vs USF, 1 p.m. (Closed Doors)\u00a0Feb. 21 \u2013 vs Sarasota Paradise, at Al Lang Stadium \u2013 7 p.m. (Open to Public)Feb. 28 \u2013 vs Sporting JAX, 1 p.m. (Closed Doors) \u00a0 <\/p>\n

Rowdies season ticketholders will receive complimentary tickets to the Philadelphia Union, CF Montr\u00e9al and FC Naples matches.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the four preseason matches are available at RowdiesSoccer.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fans have the opportunity to see the Rowdies four times at Al Lang Stadium. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-127960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}