The reigning women’s Olympic champion United States will play host to the current World Cup champion Spain in a pair of friendlies. The series marks the USA’s last two games prior to the qualifying tournament for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

The two top-ranked teams in the world will face off Saturday, October 10 at Audi Field in Washington, D.C., and October 13 at Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania. 

Series history 

This will be just the fifth and sixth meeting respectively between the two teams. The FIFA ranked No. 2 USA holds a 3W-1L-0D all-time record against La Roja.

The USA has  faced current No. 1 Spain once before on home soil, in the SheBelieves Cup in 2020, and won 1-0. The USA’s one loss came in their most recent meeting; a 2-0 defeat in Pamplona, Spain in 2022. 

🇺🇸 USA all-time vs. Spain 🇪🇸
🅆 2019 USA 1, Spain 0 (Alicante, Spain)
🅆 2019 USA 2, Spain 1 (Reims, France)*
🅆 2020 USA 1, Spain 0 (Harrison, N.J.)
🄻 2022 Spain 2, USA 0 (Pamplona, Spain)
* Round of 16 at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, won by the USA, and the only time the teams have met in official competition.

Spain marks a new era of dominance

La Roja  arguably the new standard bearers in global women’s soccer. The program has experienced a remarkably fast ascent, as it only qualified for its first World Cup in 2015 and was eliminated by the United States in the round of 16 in the 2019 tournament. That match served as the second-ever meeting between Spain and the USA (the first occurred earlier that year in a friendly).

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