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The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a women's professional soccer league at the top of the United States league system (alongside the USL Super League). [1] The league comprises 14 teams (16 in 2026). [2] It is owned by the teams and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation. [3] The NWSL is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. [4]
The FIFA Women's World Ranking is a ranking system for women's national teams in association football (commonly known as football or soccer) published by the international governing body FIFA. As of August 2024, the United States is ranked #1. The rankings were introduced in 2003, [2] with the first rankings published on 16 July of that year.
In 2023, Netflix released a four-episode documentary series titled Under Pressure: The U.S. Women's World Cup Team which followed the team's progress at the 2023 Women's World Cup. [111] In 2005, HBO released a documentary called Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team. [112]
FIFA runs the Women's World Cup as a tournament for national teams to find the world champion. Each confederation also runs its own championship to find the best team from among its members: AFC – AFC Women's Asian Cup; CAF – Women's Africa Cup of Nations; CONCACAF – CONCACAF W Championship; CONMEBOL – Copa América Femenina
This is a partial list of women's association football club teams from all over the world sorted by the confederation, association and league they reside in. Some clubs do not play in the league of the country in which they are located, but in a neighboring country's league. Where this is the case the club is noted as such.
Drury jumped four spots in the NCAA Division II women's soccer coaches poll and is now ranked 17th in the nation. The Panthers are 10-1-2 and 8-1 in the Great Lakes Valley Conference.
The Houston Dynamo of MLS stated interest in starting a women's team in 2013, and by December 2013 the NWSL approved the new Dynamo-operated team, the Houston Dash, for expansion in 2014. [43] The addition of the Dash made the NWSL the first top-division professional women's soccer league in the United States to have nine teams.
“The global attention that women’s soccer has received over the past 25 years, not only in the United States, but in Europe and South America, (means) there’s just more attention on it and ...