Cowboys release full 2026 training camp calendar for Oxnard stay

The Dallas Cowboys have released their official 2026 training camp calendar, laying out the timeline for the team’s annual preseason work in Oxnard, California. The announcement, posted by the club on June 24, frames the camp as the next step in the franchise’s effort to return to playoff contention after missing the postseason in each of the past two seasons.

The Cowboys’ camp week-by-week structure is built around their time in Oxnard, where the team traditionally conducts much of its early football installation, practice evaluation, and physical preparation before moving into later stages of the preseason calendar. While specifics of individual practice days are part of the newly published schedule, the club’s release emphasizes that the “journey once again begins” in their California base.

The timing also matters for how Dallas approaches roster building. Training camp remains the setting where coaches can separate early camp plans from the realities of player availability, conditioning readiness, and day-to-day performance in team drills. With the Cowboys coming off two straight non-playoff seasons, the camp schedule becomes more than a calendar item, it is the first organized checkpoint of a season aimed at rebuilding momentum.

The Cowboys’ announcement situates Oxnard as their “home away from home,” underscoring the club’s preference for using that block of time to get the roster aligned. In practical terms, the calendar determines when position groups can be tested in structured team sessions, when depth charts are evaluated, and when lineup decisions begin to take sharper form for preseason games that follow later in the year.

For fans, the release is also a cue for what to track between now and the first major preseason stretch. As the team works through its Oxnard practices, the most important storylines tend to revolve around training-camp roles, offensive and defensive chemistry under the coaching staff’s system, and the separation of established starters from the challengers fighting for snaps.

Looking ahead, Dallas’ published calendar sets the framework for how the coaching staff will pace the work from early installation through later, more competitive practices. The schedule’s details will be the reference point for when practices begin and how the organization transitions from camp preparation into the next phases of the offseason.

Even with the calendar now in hand, the larger question for the Cowboys remains performance in the games that follow training camp. The club’s past two seasons without playoff appearances has put more urgency around every evaluation phase, and the Oxnard schedule is the first place that urgency will show up on the field.