US Soccer has expanded its biometric partnership with Oura to cover all 27 national teams, embedding real-time recovery data into athlete monitoring systems ahead of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup.
The US Soccer Federation has entered a long-term partnership with Oura, the Finnish-founded health technology company best known for its smart ring. The Oura Ring will be the federation’s official wearable, extending biometric monitoring to all 27 national teams for the first time. Oura was last valued at approximately $11 billion.
Announced April 22, the deal marks a significant scaling of a relationship that began in 2020, when Oura started working with the US Women’s National Team (USWNT). Under the new agreement, players, coaches and staff across the full federation will have access to continuous sleep, recovery and readiness data drawn from the ring.
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Oura joins as Founding Partner of a new national home for the sport
As part of the arrangement, Oura will also serve as a Founding Partner of the Arthur M. Blank US Soccer National Training Center, the federation’s new permanent facility set to open in spring 2026 near the town of Trilith, south of Atlanta, Georgia. The site will host all 27 national teams and serve as the central hub for coach and referee education, high-performance research and community programming.
Recovery data feeds directly into athlete monitoring systems
Technically, the Oura Ring captures pulse signals from the finger – where the company says signal quality is stronger than at the wrist – and converts them into continuous sleep, readiness and activity metrics. US Soccer will plug those outputs directly into its existing athlete monitoring infrastructure, giving performance staff live visibility into how individual players are responding to training load, travel and competition.
The integration will cover Oura’s Sleep Score, Readiness Score and recovery metrics, enabling coaching staff to calibrate session intensity and manage travel fatigue on an individual basis.
The deal is timed ahead of the most competitive stretch in the federation’s history
The partnership arrives at a commercially and athletically significant moment for the federation. The US men’s team will host the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup (co-hosted with Canada and Mexico), followed by the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The three-event cycle within a two-year window creates unusually concentrated physical and logistical demands on national squads.
