USWNT defender Crystal Dunn battles Spain midfielder Alexia Putellas through the 2020 SheBelieves Cup on March 8. (Photograph Credit score: The Equalizer)
The U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce will host the reigning World Cup champions, Spain, for 2 friendlies in October, it was introduced Monday. The primary match will likely be performed on Oct. 10 at Audi Discipline in Washington D.C., the second on Oct. 13 at Subaru Park in Chester, Pa.
On the residence of the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League’s Washington Spirit, legendary USWNT defender Crystal Dunn will likely be honored pregame. Dunn was named NWSL MVP enjoying for the Spirit in 2015. A core contributor throughout a number of championship groups, Dunn retired with 160 worldwide appearances from 2013-2025, scoring 25 targets with 20 assists. She received the FIFA Girls’s World Cup in 2019, Olympic gold in 2024 and bronze in 2020, together with a number of different cup and match championships. There’s a particular version commemorative Dunn bobblehead for the primary 2,000 followers.
The matches in opposition to Spain would be the first for the U.S. in simply over 4 months because of the lengthy break for membership play following the June matches in Brazil. Spain and the U.S. have solely confronted one another 4 occasions, all since 2019. The Individuals received the primary three, the primary two essential on their path to successful the 2019 FIFA Girls’s World Cup. However the Spaniards received the newest assembly in 2022 and received the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup. They may present prime competitors for head coach Emma Hayes to measure her gamers as Concacaf qualifiers for the 2027 World Cup draw ever nearer.
“Two more fantastic matches,” stated USWNT head coach Emma Hayes in an announcement. “We’ve desperately wanted to get Spain on our schedule, but the difficulties of scheduling the top teams during the women’s international calendar are well known, so to be able to get these two games on the East Coast will be the perfect tests before we head into World Cup qualifying at the end of the year.”
Spain is out there for these matches as a result of they took first place of their UEFA Girls’s World Cup qualifying group, securing direct qualification. The wins to safe that included a 4-0 outcome over England, the 2025 EURO champions, and 6-1 over Iceland.
