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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 .
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.
The initial determining factor for a team's position in the standings is most points earned, with three points earned for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. If two or more teams tie in total points total when determining rank, playoff qualification, and seeding, the NWSL uses the following tiebreaker criteria, going down ...
The win at Red Bull Arena moved Houston (6-6-8) up to seventh place in the NWSL standings, just two points out of playoff position. The two teams sitting below the Dash, the Orlando Pride and ...
The point the Current (5-0-3) earned from the road draw pushed Kansas City back atop NWSL standings. KC sits in first place, ahead of the second-place Orlando Pride, on goal differential.
The Washington Spirit celebrate after defeated Bay FC 2-1 in extra time in a 2024 NWSL Playoffs quarterfinal on Sunday. (Photo by Hannah Foslien-Imagn Images) (USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Connect ...
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.
Hina Sugita and Morgan Weaver each scored in the first half and the Portland Thorns hung on for a 2-0 victory over rival OL Reign on Saturday night to move back atop the National Women's Soccer ...