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The Sacramento NWSL bid team, which had already paid expansion fees, requested to move its expansion rights to San Diego. On June 8, 2021, the NWSL confirmed that San Diego had been awarded an expansion team, led by Burkle and team president Jill Ellis. The team, named San Diego Wave FC, officially joined the league for the 2022 season. [78]
The NWSL will be the first major professional sports league in the U.S. to do away with college and expansion drafts and allow players to go right into unrestricted free agency.
In May 2021, it was reported that the ownership group behind the Sacramento expansion would be seeking NWSL approval to move its expansion rights to San Diego instead. [77] On June 8, 2021, the NWSL officially announced a San Diego expansion team, ultimately named San Diego Wave FC , with former United States women's national soccer team head ...
The 2024 NWSL Expansion Draft was an expansion draft held by the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) on December 15, 2023, for two expansion teams, Bay FC and Utah Royals, to select players from existing teams in the league.
The top-flight NWSL currently has 12 teams, while the semi-pro WPSL, which the Storm plays in, has 135. Despite their status in a lower-tier league, the Storm are one of the most well-known in the ...
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The 2022 NWSL Expansion Draft (formerly named the 2021 NWSL Expansion Draft [1]) was an expansion draft held by the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) on December 16, 2021, for two expansion teams, Angel City FC and San Diego Wave FC, to select players from existing teams in the league. [2] Kansas City Current were exempt from the draft. [3]
The NWSL's San Diego Wave took less than three years to become worth more than nine figures. Billionaire owner Ron Burkle is selling the team for a league-record $113 million to Lauren Leichtman ...