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The Sacramento NWSL bid team, though, had already been paying expansion costs to the league, and later requested to move its expansion rights to the San Diego market. On June 8, 2021, the NWSL announced that San Diego has been awarded an NWSL expansion team, owned by investor Ronald Burkle and led by team president Jill Ellis. [97]
The NWSL will expand to 16 teams in 2026 with the addition of BOS Nation FC and the Cincinnati, Cleveland or Denver franchise. MORE: USWNT players like idea of NWSL team in Nashville: 'A really ...
[10] [11] NWSL added pairs of expansion teams in 2021, 2022, and 2024, including re-entering markets where teams had folded. [9] The league announced plans to grow to 16 teams by 2026 with a set bidding process and fee similar to older North American sports leagues. [12] [13]
NWSL will grow to 16 teams for the 2026 season with Boston and the yet-to-be-named new expansion city joining that year. The NWSL's ongoing round of expansion has largely played out in private.
BOS Nation Football Club is an American professional soccer team based in Boston, Massachusetts, that will compete in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) starting in 2026. BOS Nation FC will play its home games at White Stadium .
The winning bidders will join the NWSL for the start of the 2026 season alongside the most recent expansion team, BOS Nation FC from Boston, which was announced last year.
On December 7, 2020, the NWSL announced that an expansion team in Kansas City would join the league in 2021 and take over player-related assets from Utah Royals FC. [72] The Royals ceased operations at the same time, but the new owners of Utah Soccer LLC (after Dell Loy Hansen completes the sale) would have the option of re-establishing the ...
Banks is an investor in the NWSL's newest expansion team, BOS Nation, beginning play in 2026 Kristy Sparow/Getty Elizabeth Banks attends 'Prelude to the Olympics' at Fondation Louis Vuitton on ...