Fort Wayne Football Club has unveiled its schedule for the 2026 USL League One season – the club’s first in professional soccer – and the home portion includes 15 matches on Saturdays and four on Wednesdays.
The home schedule also includes matches against Indianapolis-based Indy Eleven, and Detroit City FC – both teams in USL Championship – with those contests part of the Prinx Tires USL Cup, an interleague competition.
Fort Wayne FC is readying to open Fort Wayne FC Park, a state-of-the-art, soccer-specific stadium at Bass Road and I-69 that will have matchday capacity of over 9,000. It will be the largest outdoor venue in Northeast Indiana.
As announced last week, the club’s first home match will be 7:30 p.m. May 2 against the Charlotte Independence. Fort Wayne FC’s regular season will run through Oct. 24, when it hosts Athletic Club Boise at Fort Wayne FC Park.
Fort Wayne FC has plans to add a friendly to the 2026 schedule to bring the home slate to 20 matches. Match start times will be announced at a later date.
Season tickets are on sale at FortWayneFC.com.
Fort Wayne FC’s season will begin March 7 in Florida at FC Naples and the club will play its first five matches on the road, including a USL Cup match at Louisville City FC on April 25, before facing Charlotte at Fort Wayne FC Park. The May 2 match against the Independence will be the first of five straight home contests for Fort Wayne FC, including the match May 16 against Indy Eleven. Detroit City FC will play at Fort Wayne FC Park on July 11.
Fort Wayne FC will face USL League One’s defending champion, One Knoxville SC, on the road July 15 and at Fort Wayne FC Park on Sept. 17. The closest geographic rival to Fort Wayne is Forward Madison – with 307 miles separating the foes – and they’ll meet June 17 in Wisconsin and Oct. 3 at Fort Wayne FC Park.
The most frequent opponent on Fort Wayne FC’s schedule is Union Omaha, since they will meet in a USL Cup match June 6 in Nebraska, where they also play Oct. 10. The clubs will square off a third time at Fort Wayne FC Park on Aug. 1.
USL League One will have 18 clubs this season, including first-year entrants Fort Wayne FC, Athletic Club Boise, Corpus Christi FC, the New York Cosmos, and the Sarasota Paradise. Fort Wayne FC spent the past five seasons in the pre-professional level of USL League Two and the club won division titles in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and it reached the conference semifinals in 2024 and 2025.
This season’s USL League One clubs will play 34 regular-season matches plus four group-stage matches in the USL Cup.
The top eight teams in the USL League One regular-season standings will qualify for the playoffs, which will begin Oct. 31. The playoffs will have a single-elimination, fixed-bracket format.
The 2026 USL League One season is set to air on nationally on ESPN Networks, CBS Sports Network, CBS Sports Golazo Network, ESPN+ and TUDN.
Fort Wayne Football Club 2026 Schedule
March 7, Saturday: at FC Naples
March14, Saturday: at Sarasota Paradise
March 28, Saturday: at New York Cosmos
April 11, Saturday: at Chattanooga Red Wolves
April 25, Saturday: at Louisville City FC*
May 2, Saturday: vs. Charlotte Independence
May 6, Wednesday: vs. Portland Hearts of Pine
May 9, Saturday: vs. Westchester SC
May 16, Saturday: vs. Indy Eleven*
May 20, Wednesday: vs. Corpus Christi FC
May 23, Saturday: at Athletic Club Boise
May 30, Saturday: vs. AV Alta FC
June 6, Saturday: at Union Omaha*
June 10, Wednesday: at Westchester SC
June 13, Saturday: vs. South Georgia Tormenta FC
June 17, Wednesday: at Forward Madison
June 20, Saturday: at Richmond Kickers
July 4, Saturday: vs. Spokane Velocity
July 11, Saturday: vs. Detroit City FC*
July 15, Wednesday: at One Knoxville SC
July 18, Saturday: vs. Greenville Triumph SC
July 25, Saturday: at Spokane Velocity
Aug. 1, Saturday: vs. Union Omaha
Aug. 8, Saturday: at AV Alta FC
Aug. 15, Saturday: vs. Chattanooga Red Wolves
Aug. 22, Saturday: at South Georgia Tormenta FC
Aug. 29, Saturday: at Portland Hearts of Pine
Sept. 2, Wednesday: vs. Richmond Kickers
Sept. 5, Saturday: vs. New York Cosmos
Sept. 12, Saturday: at Greenville Triumph SC
Sept. 16, Wednesday: vs. One Knoxville SC
Sept. 19, Saturday: vs. FC Naples
Sept. 26, Saturday: at Charlotte Independence
Oct. 3, Saturday: vs. Forward Madison
Oct. 7, Wednesday: at Corpus Christi FC
Oct. 10, Saturday: at Union Omaha
Oct. 17, Saturday: vs. Sarasota Paradise
Oct. 24, Saturday: vs. Athletic Club Boise
Bold = Home Matches
* = USL Cup Matches
About Fort Wayne Football Club
Fort Wayne Football Club, founded in 2019, is a professional soccer club playing its first season in USL League One in 2026. The club is building a state-of-the-art, soccer-specific stadium, Fort Wayne FC Park, that will open at Bass Road and I-69 in 2026. In pre-professional USL League Two, Fort Wayne Football Club won division titles in 2023, 2024 and 2025. For more information, visit FortWayneFC.com.
About United Soccer League
Founded in 1986, the United Soccer League (USL) is the largest and fastest-growing soccer organization in the United States, impacting more than 200 communities nationwide. The USL is the first and only organization to offer a comprehensive youth-to-professional pathway for both men and women under one ecosystem. This structure includes four men’s leagues: the newly announced, top-tier professional Division I league, the USL Championship (Division II), USL League One (Division III), and USL League Two (pre-professional). The women’s pathway includes the top-tier USL Super League (Division I), which debuted in 2024, and USL W League, the country’s leading pre-professional women’s league. The USL also oversees USL Academy, a progressive talent development platform, and USL Youth, a premier national youth platform.