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The Portland Thorns' average regular-season attendance in 2019 was 20,098 fans. The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is the top-tier professional women's soccer league in the United States. It has the highest average attendance of any professional women's sports league in the United States, surpassing the Women's National Basketball ...
[3] [4] The league had an average attendance of over 11,000 during the 2024 regular season and set a record for total attendance of over 2 million spectators. [5] The NWSL was founded in November 2012 under the administration of the United States Soccer Federation with eight teams who would begin
The 2022 NWSL season, the first season since 2019 that was relatively unaffected by COVID-19, not only saw a new league single-game attendance record, but was also marked by very strong attendance for the debuting Angel City FC, which sold out its stadium four times in its first regular season and drew over 18,000 for two other home matches ...
NWSL is booming, with attendance up 32%, Fortune 500 companies signing on as sponsors, team expansion and a historic new broadcast deal.
Last year’s NWSL championship game was hosted at Snapdragon Stadium and won by New Jersey/New York Gotham FC 2-1 over the OL Reign (now Seattle Reign). Daniel Sperry covers soccer for The Star.
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The league had 14 teams following the addition of expansion teams Bay FC and Utah Royals—the latter being the revival of a team that had played in the league from 2018 to 2020. The season began with the 2024 NWSL Challenge Cup , a supercup match between the reigning playoff champion ( NJ/NY Gotham FC ) and NWSL Shield winner San Diego Wave FC ...
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