The Kansas City Current return home on Sunday with a chance to make history, hosting the Portland Thorns at CPKC Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, at noon CT in a match that will air nationally on CBS. Kansas City enters the Portland Thorns vs kc current meeting at 5-0-5 with 15 points in sixth place, while Portland comes in at 7-2-2 with 23 points and first place on the line.
For Kansas City, the timing matters as much as the opponent. The Current are coming off a 2-1 defeat at Angel City FC on Wednesday, a result that ended a short trip but did not change the shape of the larger race. Ally Sentnor scored in the 45th minute for her second goal this season, with Izzy Rodriguez providing the assist for her second of the year. Now the club returns to a stadium where it has not lost in 21 straight regular season home matches, a run that includes an 18-0-3 record and has matched North Carolina for the second-most such streak in NWSL history.
The matchup is the second between the sides this year and the most recent chapter has already tilted once in each direction. Portland beat Kansas City 2-0 on March 28 in the teams’ first meeting of the season, after Kansas City took a 3-1 victory at CPKC Stadium on March 15, 2025. That split gives Sunday’s game a sharper edge, especially with the Current having won their last eight regular season home matches. Another win would make them the first team in league history to win nine straight regular season home matches.
The home record has become part of Kansas City’s identity at CPKC Stadium. Opponents have scored just 27 regular season goals there, while Temwa Chawinga has scored 25 regular season goals at home. Chawinga has 40 goals and 10 assists in her regular season career and reached 50 regular season goal contributions in 50 matches, a pace that underscores how quickly she has changed the Current’s ceiling. On the other side, Portland arrives with its own attacking markers in the background, including Sophia Wilson’s 50 regular season goal contributions in 63 regular season games and Christine Sinclair’s 41 regular season goals at Providence Park.
Sunday’s match will also be marked as Military Appreciation Day, with the first 3,000 fans set to receive an exclusive Challenge Coin giveaway. The game will be available on the World Feed and through the KC Current App in English, Spanish and Portuguese, with radio coverage on 90.9 The Bridge. For Kansas City, the calculation is simple: protect the ground that has made CPKC Stadium one of the hardest places to win in the league, and turn a home streak into a record the rest of the NWSL has not yet reached.
