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The Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) was the world's first women's soccer league in which all the players were paid as professionals. [1] Founded in February 2000, the league began its first season in April 2001 with eight teams in the United States. [ 2 ]
The Western Indoor Soccer League (WISL) is an American semi-professional indoor soccer league. It was formed on June 20, 2014 [1] by a group of arena operators and team owners in the Pacific Northwest. The WISL began its first season on November 15, 2014 with five teams. [2] [3] [4]
The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a top-flight professional women's soccer league in the United States. It shares first-division status with the USL Super League. As of 2024, the league has 14 teams and uses a schedule that runs from spring to fall within a single calendar year. [1]
Five professional leagues of men's soccer teams [citation needed] are sanctioned by the Professional Division of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF or U.S. Soccer). The top-level men's league is Major League Soccer (MLS) and the second level men's league is the USL Championship. The third level men's leagues are USL League One, the ...
The meeting, which included representatives from US Soccer, WPS teams, the W-League (ceased operation in 2015), and the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL), was held in June. By November, after much discussion, owners from the Chicago Red Stars, Boston Breakers and US Soccer recruited an additional six teams.
The meeting resulted in the planning of a new league set to launch in 2013 with 12 to 16 teams from the WPS, the W-League, and the WPSL. In November 2012, the USSF, Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) announced that there would be eight teams in a new women's professional soccer league to be funded by the ...
The United States soccer league system is a series of professional and amateur soccer leagues based, in whole or in part, in the United States. Sometimes called the American soccer pyramid , teams and leagues are not linked by the system of promotion and relegation typical in soccer elsewhere.
The following is a list of association football leagues which do not or did not have a promotion and relegation process. Leagues within the scope of this list are: Top-tier football leagues with no relegation system In countries without lower-tier leagues; In countries with lower-tier leagues not integrated to the top-tier league; closed model