KANSAS CITY (Jan. 23, 2026) – The Kansas City Current will play three exhibition matches during the 2026 preseason, which includes a game in the Coachella Valley Invitational. All three exhibition contests will be played against fellow National Women’ Soccer League (NWSL) clubs while the team is training in California from Jan. 27-Feb. 15.

The Current will open its exhibition slate against a new foe in Denver Summit FC – one of the NWSL’s two expansion sides whose inaugural season is this year – on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 2 p.m. CT (noon PT) in Oxnard, the site where the club will conduct its preseason training. Kansas City will then make the 75-minute trek to Los Angeles a week later to face Angel City FC at 2 p.m. CT (noon PT) on Saturday, Feb. 7, at ACFC’s training center.

The matches against Denver and Angel City will be closed-door and not televised.

The reigning NWSL Shield winners conclude their California trip at Empire Polo Club in Indio for the 2026 Coachella Valley Invitational (CVI), an annual preseason tournament featuring 21 NWSL and Major League Soccer (MLS) teams. The Current will take on the San Diego Wave on Sunday, Feb....