Photo: Scott Sewell-USA TODAY Sports The North Carolina Courage are back in the NWSL Challenge Cup final and will host Racing Louisville for Saturday’s finale. Here’s your bite-size recap of Wednesday’s semifinals. KC Current 0, NC Courage 1 What happened: Brianna Pinto turned on a loose ball and scored it in the 6th minute of […]
© Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports The NWSL Challenge Cup has come down to three more matches before the competition is put on mothballs for 2024. With two new teams making for an expanded regular season in 2024 plus plans to shutter the league for the Olympic Games, the National Women’s Soccer League will bring […]
Photo Copyright EM Dash for USA TODAY Sports After the week 18 matches, the top six teams remain in the top six, the middle three remain in the middle, and the bottom three are still at the bottom, but as far as the actual places, every team except Houston in 10th has moved. in one […]
Photo Copyright Ray Acevedo for USA TODAY Sports NJ/NY Gotham FC announced on Thursday that Brazilian star Bruninha will remain with the club through 2025. The defender signed with Gotham in August 2022 through 2023 following a transfer from Santos FC of the Brazilian first division league Brasileirão Feminino Neoenergia. Bruninha has excelled for both […]
(Photo Copyright Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports) Usually when a team has a coaching change in the National Women’s Soccer League, there is a bit of a bounce-back. In the games immediately after the change, the players and fans feed off the fresh energy to grab some points before cooling back off. But Angel City FC […]
Photo credit: Daniel Bartel-USA TODAY Sports The Chicago Red Stars are finally, officially under new ownership after a long process that yielded Chicago Cubs co-owner Laura Ricketts as the majority owner of a women-led group. The process itself was long, with Ricketts’ initial inquiries about the Red Stars coming last October before the start of […]
Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Julie Ertz has retired from professional soccer, she announced on Thursday, a few weeks after the United States women’s national team’s elimination from the 2023 World Cup in a penalty shootout in the Round of 16. The match was the final of Ertz’s career, one that included two senior World Cup […]
Photo: Tigres Femenil. Tigres Femenil and Club América Femenil have seen nonstop action for a week. In Liga MX Femenil league play, both sides — who currently occupy the first and second place spots on the table, with América at the top with 24 points, while Tigres has 22 points — featured on Friday, Aug. […]
© Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Four of the six matches this National Women’s Soccer League weekend were draws, while one draw had a player seeing red. Also, one coach saw red, too. Meanwhile, the San Diego Wave and Angel City FC collected wins. Angel City has not lost a match since Becki Tweed took […]
Photo: Pedro Soares / SPP “Beyond Greatness”This was the tagline for this year’s World Cup and it was represented in several different ways throughout the tournament, but none more so than in the euphoria and discovery of the new, underappreciated teams emerging as genuine footballing sides, now on the verge of potentially becoming mainstays in […]