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The league also plays the NWSL Challenge Cup, which since 2024 is a single-game super cup between the current NWSL Shield holder and current NWSL Champion. The Challenge Cup originated in 2020 as a way for all teams to return to play after the halt from the COVID-19 pandemic (though one team had to drop out because of COVID).
As of March 30, 2024, players in the NWSL have represented 50 foreign national teams. Zambia was the most recent national team to be represented when Racheal Kundananji made her debut in March 2024 for Bay FC. Players listed in bold are currently signed to an NWSL roster.
The NWSL regular season, comprising 22 games for each team, began on March 25 and ended on October 15, 2023. The playoffs followed from October 22 and ended with the championship match on November 11. [1] For the first time, the NWSL Challenge Cup ran entirely concurrent with the regular season from April to September 9, 2023. [1]
Kansas City Current is an American women's soccer club which began play in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2021 as Kansas City NWSL. It is the successor to FC Kansas City, the previous Kansas City-based team to compete in the NWSL from 2013–2017, and relocated the roster of Utah Royals FC, which suspended operations in 2020. [1]
The 2025 season is the upcoming 13th season for the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top division of women's soccer in the United States.Including the NWSL's two professional predecessors, Women's Professional Soccer (2009–2011) and the Women's United Soccer Association (2001–2003), it will be the 19th overall season of FIFA and USSF-sanctioned top division women's soccer in the ...
On October 26, 2015, the Pride announced that they had made the first player acquisitions in team history; signing forward Alex Morgan and Kaylyn Kyle from Portland Thorns FC in exchange for the Pride's No. 1 picks in the 2015 NWSL Expansion Draft and the 2016 NWSL College Draft as well as an international roster spot for the 2016 and 2017 ...
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 .
The decision to bring a NWSL team to Utah was based on the established interest in men's soccer in the state as well as Dell Loy Hansen's gut feeling and longtime interest in a team. [ 9 ] The new Salt Lake City team announced its hiring of former Seattle Reign FC coach Laura Harvey as its inaugural head coach on November 27, 2017.