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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.
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.
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 ...
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The National Women’s Soccer League and the NWSL Players Association have agreed to eliminate the draft and give free agency to all players — an unprecedented move in major professional U.S ...
However, Burkle never confirmed the news publicly before exiting the Sacramento Republic's ownership group. Instead, on June 8, 2021, the NWSL announced San Diego as the location for an expansion team owned by Burkle to begin play in 2022. Burkle named co-investor Matt Alvarez as his representative in the NWSL project. [3] [4]
The deals are reportedly worth 10 times the league's previous deal with CBS.