Liverpool Head to the United States for 2026 Pre-Season Tour

Liverpool’s 2025-26 season has about as poorly as it imaginably could have, at least when compared to the expectations given those expectations were for this group to at least make a show of properly defending last season’s Premier League title and instead they’re slumping towards a finish that sees them at risk of missing out on the Champions League places entirely.

Football, though, is something of a perpetual motion machine. Whether or not there’s any real hope in all of that perpetual motion along with the constant grasping of those in charge for more and more and more changes from club to club, but whatever one’s place in the footballing firmament there’s always another week, another match, another transfer window, and another season to look forward to and/or dread.

As the 2025-26 campaigns winds disappointingly down with questions about the long-term viability of Arne Slot as head coach and/or manager refusing to go away and rearing back up again with every fresh setback and each new uninspired performance—the latest a 2-1 defeat at league-worst Wolves—we look ahead, then, with some trepidation to what comes next.

And what comes next is 2026-27’s pre-season tour, apparently. A chance for this limping, seemingly tactically directionless squad to maybe make a few changes then start all over again while they run around a bit trying to give a shit in games that don’t matter in front of audiences that wouldn’t typically get the chance to see them run around a bit trying to give a shit in games that do matter.

Which doesn’t include Wolves who will surely roll over and just give us the three points oh fiddlesticks never mind speaking of wasn’t this a story about a pre-season tour? Anyhow, getting to that and apologies to anyone who really, truly cares about pre-season in the midst of [waves hands vaguely at Liverpool shitting the bed in a 2-1 defeat at league-worst Wolves].

Liverpool are heading to the United States this summer, a place which is also hosting a World Cup assuming the involved countries and/or players and/or fans aren’t rounded up en masse and sent to El Salvador to work in the bitcoin mines when they arrive. The Reds play Sunderland in Nashville on July 25th, Wrexham in New York on the 29th, and Leeds in Chicago on August 2nd.

Here’s a link to the official announcement.