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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.
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 .
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 ...
The 2024 NWSL Championship game between the Orlando Pride and Washington Spirit will be broadcast on CBS and can be streamed in the U.S. on Paramount+ or via Fubo, which is offering a free trial ...
The Orlando Pride, who have made the playoffs only once in club history, are now three games away from the first unbeaten season in NWSL history.
Seattle Reign FC hold the record for most NWSL Shields, at three, and have finished as runners-up in three NWSL Championship games. [19] [20] The "double"—an NWSL Championship and NWSL Shield in the same season—has been won three times: by the North Carolina Courage in 2018 and 2019, and by the Orlando Pride in 2024.
The NFC North dominates the rest of the conference’s playoff positions with the 11-2 Minnesota Vikings and 9-4 Green Bay Packers filing the No. 5 and No. 6 spots respectively.
The NWSL Championship is the annual championship game of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top-flight women's soccer league in the United States. It is the culmination of the NWSL playoffs , which is contested by the teams with the best record in the preceding regular season.