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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.
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.
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]
At the semi-professional level, the USL League Two and the National Premier Soccer League have teams. Two professional women's soccer leagues are sanctioned by U.S. Soccer, both at the top level— the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), which has operated since 2013, and the USL Super League (USLS), which started play in the 2024–25 season.
The Division I First-Team All-Americans is an annual list honoring the best performing NCAA Division I women's U.S. college soccer players of the season as selected by United Soccer Coaches (formerly known as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)).
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
In 1982, the year the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) started sponsoring women’s sports, across all three NCAA divisions 1,855 participated in women’s soccer on 80 teams ...
They represent the ranking system for the 2020 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only the United Soccer Coaches poll was released for the fall season. No preseason poll was released and a fifteen-team poll was released on September 22, 2020, as the first poll of the season. Top Drawer Soccer released ...