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Primary allocation results for United States players were announced on January 13, 2016, with 24 allocated players. [42] Two days later, during the 2016 NWSL College Draft, NWSL also announced a new allocation process. [43] Canada's allocation list was released with 11 players on February 8, 2016, all of whom were allocated under the old ...
Bailey had previously served as general manager of the United States women's national soccer team from 2007 to 2011, which included leading the support staff for the U.S. team during the 2007 and 2011 FIFA Women's World Cups, as well as the 2008 Summer Olympics. During her tenure with the women's national team, she was in charge of all areas of ...
The team is governed by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF (the Confederation of North, Central American, and Caribbean Association Football). The team is the most successful in international women's soccer, winning four Women's World Cup titles (1991, 1999, 2015, and 2019), five Olympic gold medals (1996, 2004, 2008 ...
One woman cracked Forbes' 2023 list of the world's highest-paid athletes -- tennis great Serena Williams, who brought in $45.3 million in her final year of competitive play. She retired from her...
The addition of the Dash made the NWSL the first top-division professional women's soccer league in the United States to have nine teams. After the United States women's national team winning the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, the NWSL announced agreements for its first televised games with Fox Sports 1 during the 2015 season, airing games near ...
In 1982, the year the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) started sponsoring women’s sports, across all three NCAA divisions 1,855 participated in women’s soccer on 80 teams ...
Though Gotham FC is the first NWSL team to reach the White House, it is not the only women's soccer team to have been invited. Two other leagues, now defunct, were formed in the U.S. since 2000 ...
The first transfer in women's football reported as a record was that of Milene Domingues from Fiammamonza to Rayo Vallecano in 2002, two decades before professionalism in Spanish women's football. The current transfer record was set by the transfer of Naomi Girma from San Diego Wave to Chelsea for $1.1 million in January 2025.