FC Tucson’s Vivien Villarreal, left, celebrates with Ashly Martinez after the two combined for a score against RSL in the second half of their WPSL game at Tucson High School on May 29.

It’s a busy weekend for FC Tucson as both its men’s and women’s sides return home.

On Friday night at 7, the FC Tucson men (3-2-2), fresh off their season sweep of defending division champ Redlands FC, host the Southern California Eagles (1-7). FC Tucson beat Redlands 5-1 last week at home after defeating it 2-1 the weekend before on the road.

Five different FCT players scored, a regular season club record, in the win over last year’s USL League Two Southwest Division champs.

This year, the Men in Black head into the weekend in fourth place in the division, two points behind second-place AMSG FC.

On the women’s side, FC Tucson (4-1-1) gets a chance at payback against Royals AZ (3-3) with a 7 p.m. game Saturday. Last week in Scottsdale, the Royals handed FCTW their first loss of the season, 4-2.

RSL Southern Arizona (0-5) plays at first-place SC del Sol (5-0-1) on Friday. FC Tucson is in second place in the Desert Conference in the WPSL with 13 points compared to del Sol’s 16. RSL is in last place.

FC Tucson has a half-off ticket deal for the women’s match if you buy a full-priced ticket to the men’s game. Friday is Pride Night, and Saturday is Youth Night

On Sunday, FC Tucson will host a free clinic from 6 to 8 p.m. for ages 9 to 14 at Kino North Stadium. There will be music and food trucks.

Space is limited to 100; sign up at fctucson.com.


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