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Cleveland Soccer Group plans to build a stadium for a proposed $150 million if the NWSL approves the bid. The stadium itself is planned for 12,500 fans, with the possibility of expanding to 20,000.
Bay FC, which joined the NWSL in 2024, and Boston each agreed to a $53 million expansion fee. Sportico considers Angel City FC the most valuable franchise in the league at an estimated $250 ...
Sportico reported in December 2022 that Cleveland had also bid for the NWSL’s 15th expansion team, but was not selected. [133] Cleveland was one of the final four bids in 2022; the 15th expansion team went to NWSL Boston. In October 2023, Cleveland Pro Soccer launched a public campaign to bid for an NWSL team in Northeast Ohio. [134]
The race for a National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) expansion team is down to the final three potential cities and Cincinnati is still one of them, the league's commissioner announced Friday.
The expansion team was eventually granted to NWSL Boston in December 2022. [15] NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman announced in November 2023 that the league would add a 16th team by 2026. [16] In October 2023, Cleveland Pro Soccer announced the group was preparing to present a bid for the 16th NWSL expansion team. The team would be the first and ...
The league had 14 teams following the addition of expansion teams Bay FC and Utah Royals—the latter being the revival of a team that had played in the league from 2018 to 2020. 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 ...
The 2024 NWSL Expansion Draft was an expansion draft held by the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) on December 15, 2023, for two expansion teams, Bay FC and Utah Royals, to select players from existing teams in the league.
Groups from Cincinnati, Denver, Cleveland, Nashville and Philadelphia have jockeyed for position in the expansion race, and done so largely behind closed doors, with site visits taking place in ...