Mother's Day Scavenger Hunt at PayPal Park

Bay FC is using a soccer match as the frame for a Mother’s Day outing. On Sunday, May 10, the club’s home game against Utah Royals FC at PayPal Park in San Jose will double as a stadium-wide scavenger hunt, with hidden prizes scattered in and around the venue. The pitch is simple — show up early, search together, then stay for the game. But the bigger idea is that Bay FC is turning matchday into a family activity, not just 90 minutes in the stands. ### What’s actually happening on May 10? The scavenger hunt starts when gates open at 11 a.m. PT, two hours before Bay FC kicks off against Utah Royals FC at 1 p.m. PT. The club says fans should look for hidden prizes inside and around PayPal Park, including in tailgate areas, so this is a pregame event built into the broader matchday rather than a separate ticketed attraction somewhere else. ### What can people win? The concrete hook is the prize count — 90 hidden prizes. Bay FC says those include future match tickets, merchandise vouchers, and other experiences, plus limited-edition merchandise tied to the day’s themes. That matters because it makes the hunt feel more like a real stadium activation than a symbolic kids’ activity with a few trinkets at the end. ### Is this just a Mother’s Day promotion? Not really. The May 10 game is also Bay FC’s AANHPI Heritage Match, so the club is stacking multiple reasons to arrive early and treat the day as an event. Bay FC has also announced a halftime performance by Bay Area artist P-LO, and the club says a limited-edition AANHPI T-shirt will be sold at the stadium for the first time that day. ### Why is Bay FC doing this now? Because the first version worked. Bay FC explicitly tied the Mother’s Day scavenger hunt to the success of its first in-stadium egg hunt on April 5, and the club is now bringing the format back with more prizes and a holiday angle. Basically, this looks like a test turning into a repeatable matchday formula — going from a game to a broader day out. ### Do you need anything besides a game ticket? The event is framed as part of admission to the match, so the key thing is having a ticket to Bay FC vs. Utah Royals FC. Bay FC’s event and ticket pages point fans to the May 10 match listing rather than to a separate scavenger-hunt checkout flow. In other words, this reads like a bundled pregame perk, not a standalone scavenger-hunt product. ### What should families know before going? Arrive early — the hunt starts at 11 a.m., not at kickoff. PayPal Park also enforces a clear-bag policy, with only limited exceptions for small clutches or fanny packs, and non-compliant bags have to be returned to your car or checked outside the main gate. That’s the kind of practical detail that can eat into scavenger-hunt time if you show up late. ### Why does this matter beyond one game? Women’s soccer clubs have been getting more deliberate about matchday packaging, and Bay FC is leaning hard into that. Instead of asking families to choose between a holiday outing and a sporting event, the club is trying to collapse them into one plan. The scavenger hunt is the clearest version of that strategy yet. ### Bottom line If you were already thinking about a Mother’s Day activity in San Jose, Bay FC is making a pretty direct case for this one — come early, hunt for one of 90 prizes, then stay for Bay FC vs. Utah Royals FC. The soccer is still the anchor, but the event is being sold as a family outing first and a match second.