LA Galaxy will host Real Salt Lake on Sunday, April 26, 2026 at 4 p.m. PT at Dignity Health Sports Park, and the day will start well before kickoff. Cobi Jones’ Statue Unveil is set for 1 p.m. in Legends Plaza, with fans able to begin entering the standing-room-only area outside the stadium’s Southwest Entrance at 12:30 p.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.
The club said up to 15,000 Cobi Jones replica statues will be handed out to fans upon entry, turning the match into more than a routine home date. For Los Angeles, Jones is not just another former player; he is one of the franchise’s defining figures, and the team is using the afternoon to center the celebration around him before the game against Real Salt Lake.
The rest of the day has been built around that theme. The LA Galaxy Team Store at Legends Plaza will close from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. during the unveiling ceremony, and fans are encouraged to stop by the pregame party at Galaxy Park throughout the afternoon. LA Galaxy alumni Carlos Ruiz and Kyle Martino will sign autographs in SoccerFest from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., giving the club another way to keep supporters moving through the venue before kickoff.
The occasion also reaches into the club’s retail and food push. The LA Galaxy launched an exclusive Cobi Jones apparel collection that includes a hoodie, crewneck sweatshirt, scarf, hat and two T-shirts, while Dignity Health Sports Park will debut the Galaxy Pi in collaboration with PI LA. The new item is an LA-style pan pizza with chorizo, roasted poblanos, corn, Oaxaca melting cheese, spiced tomato sauce and an umamified crust with a crispy cheese edge, and the first 250 fans who buy one will have a chance to receive a silk screen printed pizza box by Shepard Fairey.
Presented by Dignity Health, the afternoon is designed to make the stadium experience feel like a club event before it becomes a league match. The real test comes at 4 p.m. PT, when the atmosphere built around Jones, the giveaways and the new menu item has to give way to what happens on the field against Real Salt Lake.