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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 .
The NWSL regular season, comprising 22 games for each team, began on March 25 and ended on October 15, 2023. The playoffs followed from October 22 and ended with the championship match on November 11. [1] For the first time, the NWSL Challenge Cup ran entirely concurrent with the regular season from April to September 9, 2023. [1]
At the 2022 NWSL Championship, the league recognized some of the players who had competed in the league for all ten years of its existence. After Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) officially folded in April 2012, the United States Soccer Federation (US Soccer) announced a roundtable for discussion of the future of women's professional soccer in the United States.
Last year, the NWSL's top eight were separated by seven points. This year, the fourth-place Current finished with 55 points — 16 more than the fifth-place North Carolina Courage.
The NWSL's top players typically make about $400,000 per year, but the minimum salary for the league is $36,400. The average player makes about $65,000 per season, according to Essentially Sports ...
The win cements the Pride at the top of the NWSL standings with 38 points and a three-point advantage over the Current, with the Washington Spirit behind them at 34 points.
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 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.