Sporting Kansas City vs. Portland Timbers
2026 MLS Regular Season | Game 28
Saturday, Oct. 10 | 7:30 p.m. CT (7:40 kickoff)
Sporting Park | Kansas City, Kansas
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Listen: 810 AM | 1340 AM | SKC App
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Sporting Kansas City hosts the Portland Timbers at 7:30 p.m. CT on Saturday at Sporting Park as the club celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Tickets are available on SeatGeek, including a special Latino Heritage Night ticket packfeaturing an exclusive SKC luchador mask and a Corona or Coca-Cola product, and Sporting Style will sell a Latino Heritage t-shirt at retail stores throughout the stadium. Fans are invited to join the KC Cauldron tailgate from 3:30-5:30 p.m. featuring El Cuarita KC tacos, margaritas and music from DJ 201 in addition to the Cauldron's post-game after party at Anejo.
With less than a month to go in the regular season, Sporting will play the team's final four home matches of the year on the next four Saturdays at Sporting Park. Currently last in the West, the club's 2026 campaign will conclude with match-ups against each of the five teams directly ahead of SKC in the conference standings over the remaining seven games.
Sporting KC's Remaining Schedule
Oct. 10 vs. Portland (10th in West)
Oct. 14 at Nashville (1st in East)
Oct. 17 vs. Real Salt Lake (11th in West)
Oct. 24 vs. Austin (13th in West)
Oct. 28 at Minnesota (14th in West)
Oct. 31 vs. Dallas (3rd in West)
Nov. 7 at San Diego (12th in West)
Head coach Raphael Wicky's side has been sparked as of late by Brazilian striker Andre Luiz, who has five goals and an assist in his past four games. The 24-year-old Designated Player is the only player in MLS with six goal contributions since September 10 and he has the longest active scoring streak in MLS with the opportunity on Saturday to become only the third player in club history to score in five consecutive regular season matches
Sporting KC All-Time Scoring Streaks
1. Johnny Russell (8 games in 2021)
2. Preki (5 games in 1996)
3. Andre Luiz (4 games in 2026)
3. Dejan Joveljic (4 games in 2025)
3. Alan Pulido (4 games in 2023)
3. Felipe Gutierrez (4 games in 2018)
3. Don Dwyer (4 games three times)
3. Eddie Johnson (4 games in 2007)
3. Josh Wolff (4 games in 2004)
Led by new head coach Marti Cifuentes, the Portland Timbers arrive in Kansas City on the heels of three straight defeats and looking for their first win of the year outside the Pacific Time Zone (0-7-1). Offensively, the visitors are led by the Designated Player duo of David Da Costa (four goals, eight assists) and Kristoffer Velde (eight goals, nine assists) after the departures of Felipe Mora and Kevin Kelsey this summer.
Defensively, Portland has conceded the most shots on goal in MLS this year as James Pantemis leads all Western Conference goalkeepers in saves (112). Sporting Kansas City and the Timbers each have only shutout this season -- with Portland's lone clean sheet coming in a 6-0 victory over SKC in May -- and the two teams have allowed the most goals in the conference.
Saturday's showdown will be available to watch in English (Josh Eastern and Ian Joy) and Spanish (Oscar Salazar) on Apple TV in addition to local radio coverage on Sports Radio 810 WHB and La Grande 1340 AM with audio streams in the SKC mobile app.
