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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, on March 15, 2024. The regular season began the following day and ran until November 3; [ 1 ] it paused for a month between July 8 and August 18 for the 2024 Summer Olympics .
Since the 2024 season, the top eight teams in the final standings at the end of the regular season qualify for the playoffs and are seeded in order of their record.The top-seed hosts the eighth seed and the fourth hosts the fifth in one arm of the quarterfinals bracket, and the runner-up hosts the seventh seed and the third hosts the sixth in the other arm.
NWSL Shield, playoffs: 2 Washington Spirit: 26 18 2 6 51 28 +23 56 Playoffs: 3 NJ/NY Gotham FC: 26 17 5 4 41 20 +21 56 4 Kansas City Current: 26 16 7 3 57 31 +26 55 5 North Carolina Courage: 26 12 3 11 34 28 +6 39 6 Portland Thorns FC: 26 10 4 12 37 35 +2 34 7 Bay FC: 26 11 1 14 31 41 −10 34 8 Chicago Red Stars: 26 10 2 14 31 38 −7 32 9 ...
Unless, of course, a player receives two yellow cards, or a red card, in the semifinal, resulting in a player suspension for the final (or the third-place game).
However, with more regular season matches taking place due to the league being expanded from 12 to 14 teams in 2024, the NWSL decided to scrap the league cup format. [5] Instead, the competition was reformatted to be a one-off super cup match, to be contested by the winners of the NWSL Championship and NWSL Shield from the previous season ...
[7] [8] [9] The draw followed the path formation rules to determine the paths in which the non-group winners will participate. Three separate draws determining the host of the play-off final of each path also took place between the winners of the semi-final pairings (identified as semi-final 1 for seed 1 v 4, and semi-final 2 for seed 2 v 3).
The 12-team College Football Playoff has given us more games and also juggled the bowl schedule. Bowl season began on Dec. 14 and now ends on Jan. 4 for the non-playoff bowls.
The reigning back-to-back Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs secured their 10th straight playoff berth with five games to spare after beating the Las Vegas Raiders on Black Friday in Week 13.