Kansas City Current head to PayPal Park on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, knowing this is a fixture they have owned so far. They have won all four previous meetings with Bay FC by a 12-3 combined score, and they will try to keep that trend going on the road even with Temwa Chawinga questionable because of illness.
The game is set for 9 p.m. CT, 7 p.m. PT, and it is the first of three straight Friday night matches for Kansas City. The Current enter at 10-8-4, in seventh place with 34 points, after beating North Carolina 3-2 last weekend for their 10th regular-season win. Bay FC, meanwhile, will have the comfort of home at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif., but the recent history between the teams clearly belongs to Kansas City.
A matchup Kansas City have controlled
The head-to-head record tells the story. Kansas City have beaten Bay FC in all four regular-season meetings, and the combined margin of 12-3 underlines how difficult Bay have found this opponent. That kind of record matters even when the season moves on, because it gives one side real confidence and leaves the other searching for a response.
The most recent meeting came on Sept. 6, 2025, when Kansas City won 2-0 in San Jose. It was another clean result in a series that has not tended to be close, and it leaves Bay with a straightforward challenge on Friday: find a way to change the rhythm of a matchup that has repeatedly tilted Kansas City’s way.
What Kansas City are carrying into the game
There is still some momentum in the Current camp despite the demands of a long season. The win over North Carolina was their 10th in league play, and it came in a 3-2 game that again showed their ability to produce when it matters. Haley Hopkins also recorded the first multi-assist game of her career on Aug. 29, 2026, another small sign of attacking confidence in the squad.
Chawinga remains the key availability question. If she is fit enough to play, Kansas City’s attacking threat rises again. If not, the Current still have enough to compete, but the balance of the front line changes. Either way, this is the sort of road match that asks for discipline as much as ambition.
Broadcast and what comes next
The match will air on Prime Video, the World Feed, 90.9 The Bridge, and the KC Current App in English, Spanish and Portuguese, giving fans several ways to follow a Friday-night test that starts a busy run. For Kansas City, the focus is simple enough: protect the advantage they have built in this fixture and keep their push for the closing stretch moving in the right direction.
There is also more squad context beyond this game, with Katie Scott set to join the U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team for the 2026 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland from Sept. 5-27, 2026. But for now the immediate task is Bay FC, and whether Kansas City can maintain the control they have shown every time these teams have met before.
