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Women's Professional Soccer All-Star team in 2009. Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top level professional women's soccer league in the United States. [69] It began play on March 29, 2009, and folded in 2012. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded 6 teams for the 2011 season.
On February 22, 2022, the USSF agreed to settle the lawsuit for $24 million, contingent upon the U.S. team agreeing to a new CBA. $22 million would go to the players named in the case, and $2 million would contribute toward players' post-playing career and other women's soccer charitable efforts.
The team is fielded by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), the governing body of soccer in the United States, and competes as a member of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF). The United States competed in their first international match on August 18, 1985, a 1–0 loss in the ...
EuroLeague Women is the main women's club basketball competition in Europe. First established by FIBA in September 1958, the inaugural European women's club competition consisted of 10 teams and came about following the success of an equivalent tournament for men's clubs earlier in the same year.
Players in the four-team AU league will play 24 games of 5-on-5 hoops in Nashville starting Wednesday night over the next month at Municipal Auditorium. Unrivaled is 3-on-3 competition with six ...
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. The league comprises 13 teams (15 in 2026). It is considered the premier professional women's basketball league in the world. [citation needed] The WNBA is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.
Originally called the United States Interregional Women's League, the USL W-League was formed in 1995 as the first national women's soccer league, [28] [29] [30] providing a professional outlet for many of the top female soccer players in the country. It also allowed college players the opportunity to play alongside established international ...
Seattle Reign FC is an American professional soccer team based in Seattle, Washington, that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Founded in 2012, it is one of eight inaugural members of the NWSL. Since June 2024, the Reign are owned by the private equity firm the Carlyle Group and Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC. [3]