{"id":622929,"date":"2026-03-14T04:57:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/622929\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T04:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:57:51","slug":"kc-current-open-2026-nwsl-season-saturday-against-utah-royals-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/622929\/","title":{"rendered":"KC Current open 2026 NWSL season Saturday against Utah Royals at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KSHB 41 reporter Marlon Martinez covers Platte and Clay counties in Missouri. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kshb.com\/news\/local-news\/missouri\/platte-county\/mailto:marlon.martinez@kshb.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Share your story idea with Marlon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<br \/>The Kansas City Current open their 2026 National Women&#8217;s Soccer League season Saturday at CPKC Stadium against the Utah Royals, with a new coach and revamped roster aimed at bringing an NWSL Championship to Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>KC Current open 2026 NWSL season Saturday against Utah Royals at home<\/p>\n<p>Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. Gates open 90 minutes before the first whistle. Tickets are still available on the Current&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The match day shuttle service will be operating. The last shuttle will run two hours after the end of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The Current had a historic regular season in 2025 but fell short in the postseason. This year, the team enters the new season under head coach Chris Armas.<br \/>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kshb.com\/news\/local-news\/missouri\/platte-county\/mailto:marlon.martinez@kshb.com?subject=Contact Marlon Martinez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MARLONBEATFSV.png\" alt=\"Marlon Martinez\" style=\"width: 100%; height: auto; display: block;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KSHB 41 reporter Marlon Martinez covers Platte and Clay counties in Missouri. Share your story idea with Marlon.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,9769,58029,1622,14,936,2123,55,2596,2595,58028,80292,13499,4,2249,71437,252],"class_list":["post-622929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kansas-city-royals","tag-baseball","tag-clay-county","tag-cpkc-stadium","tag-fans","tag-game","tag-kansas","tag-kansas-city","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-kansascity","tag-kansascityroyals","tag-kc-current","tag-marlon-martinez","tag-match","tag-mlb","tag-nwsl","tag-platte-county","tag-royals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116225764126926623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}