Sporting Kansas City’s regular season home match against FC Dallas on Saturday, July 28 at Children’s Mercy Park is now scheduled for 8 p.m. CT and will be nationally televised on ESPN, Major League Soccer announced on Tuesday.

Tickets for the match, originally slated to kick off at 7:30 p.m. CT, are available online at SeatGeek.com and the first 10,000 fans in attendance will receive Sporting Kansas City cooling headbands courtesy of match sponsor Dairy Farmers of America.

Parking lots will open at 5 p.m. on Saturday around Children's Mercy Park. Fans can begin entering the Toyota Plaza and Budweiser Brew House at 6 p.m. prior to the seating bowl opening at 6:30 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City (9-5-6, 3rd place) will take on Western Conference leaders FC Dallas (11-3-6, 1st place) on Saturday during an eight-hour block of high-profile soccer programming live on ESPN:

4 p.m. CT: Manchester United-Liverpool (International Champions Cup)

6 p.m. CT: Bayern Munich-Manchester City (International Champions Cup)

8 p.m. CT: Sporting Kansas City-FC Dallas (Major League Soccer)

10 p.m. CT: FC Barcelona-Tottenham Hotspur (International Champions Cup)

Sporting KC is unbeaten in the team’s past 10 home matches (8-0-2) against FC Dallas dating back to 2011 and will enter Saturday’s match with a 10-game unbeaten run (7-0-3) at Children’s Mercy Park this season. Sporting Kansas City (Weeks 4-18) and FC Dallas (Weeks 19-21) have led the Western Conference since March and will meet twice in the final three months of the MLS regular season campaign.

To view Sporting Kansas City’s full 2018 schedule, visit SportingKC.com.