Above: Gene Hallman with the Alabama Sports Foundation announces U.S. Women’s Soccer Team will play at Legion Field as part of its Victory Tour. (Karim Shamsi-Basha/Alabama NewsCenter)

The soccer show will go on but another team will share the stage with the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup champs.

Haiti replaces Australia as the opponent for the third and fourth matches of the Victory Tour as the U.S. Women’s National Team comes to Detroit and Birmingham.

As scheduled, the Americans will play at Legion Field at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 20, in a game that will be seen nationally on ESPN2. The Detroit meeting is at 6 p.m. Central on Thursday, Sept. 17, on FOX Sports 1.

This will be the first friendly match between the countries. The U.S. Women have played Haiti four times in their history, all in CONCACAF qualifying tournaments.

The teams most recently met on Oct. 20, 2014, at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., during qualifying for the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The USA won that match 6-0 with two goals from Abby Wambach.

More than 31,000 tickets have been sold for each match. Tickets for both games are available at ussoccer.com. For the match in Birmingham, tickets are also available by phone at 1-800-745-3000 and at all Ticketmaster ticket centers (including Publix and Walmart locations).

Tickets are not sold at Legion Field except on the day of the event. Groups of 20 or more can obtain an order form at ussoccer.com or call 312-528-1290.

Gene Hallman, whose Bruno Event Team is promoting the match, said that no one has called seeking a refund since Australia is not coming.

“And we don’t anticipate anyone will,” he said. “They’re coming to see the U.S. Women’s team and the opponent is way down the list in terms of why someone would want to attend.”

Hallman added that the American squad is full of personality and those personalities drive ticket sales.

“You can go down the list from Wambach to Rampone to Lloyd to Brian to Hope Solo,” he said. “These are names that very casual soccer fans – and sports fans in general – know. They’re going to be right here in Birmingham and it’s going to be a rare opportunity, one of only 10 cities to get this opportunity.”

The Football Federation of Australia confirmed that it will not send a team to participate in the matches against the U.S. Women’s National Team in Detroit and Birmingham due to the labor dispute with its players.

Fox Sports reported that Professional Footballers Australia instructed the players to boycott practice, hours before negotiations on a collective bargaining agreement were set to restart.

The PFA is seeking an increase in the salary cap at each of the 10 A-League clubs, an increase in payments for international matches, and increases in spending on wages, air travel, accommodation, and benefits for the Matildas, the national women’s team.

“Since we became aware several days ago that Australia might not travel to the U.S. to compete in the two matches, we have been in communication with other Federations about their Women’s National Team serving as a replacement for both games,” U.S. Soccer said in a press release.