{"id":575674,"date":"2026-02-08T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/575674\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:55:10","slug":"matchday-chicago-fire-fc-vs-la-galaxy-2026-coachella-valley-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/575674\/","title":{"rendered":"Matchday | Chicago Fire FC vs. LA Galaxy | 2026 Coachella Valley Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Fire FC\u00a0will begin\u00a0play\u00a0in the 2026 Coachella Valley Invitational against the LA Galaxy on Sunday, Feb. 8 at\u00a012 p.m. CT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following their first postseason win since 2009 and two wins\u00a0to open\u00a0the 2026\u00a0preseason in South Florida,\u00a0the Fire return to the Coachella Valley for three matches at the Empire Polo Grounds, beginning with 2024 MLS Cup Champions LA Galaxy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social<\/strong>: X &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagofire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@chicagofire<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VamosFire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@VamosFire<\/a>\u00a0(Hashtags: #cf97 #VamosFire) | Instagram &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/chicagofire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@chicagofire<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/chicagofire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n      Lineups (To be announced shortly before the\u00a0match)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Head Coach:<\/strong>\u00a0Gregg Berhalter\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>: Empire Polo Grounds (Indio, Calif.)<\/p>\n<p>\n      How to Follow\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stay updated on\u00a0Fire\u00a0socials, with play-by-play available on Chicago Fire\u2019s X accounts (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chicagofire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@chicagofire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VamosFire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">VamosFire<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>              <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire FC\u00a0will begin\u00a0play\u00a0in the 2026 Coachella Valley Invitational against the LA Galaxy on Sunday, Feb. 8 at\u00a012&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":575675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,12420,5386,1818,249917],"class_list":{"0":"post-575674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-fire-fc","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-matchday-guide"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}