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Aurora’s lowest attended season, 5600 in 2022, surpasses 67% of all historical NWSL team attendance averages, and surpassed two NWSL clubs in the most recent season of 2023. [121] Minnesota Aurora FC submitted a 2024 NWSL expansion bid in 2022 while searching for a principal owner that met the USSF Division 1 ownership guidelines. [122]
[14] [15] All NWSL teams also played in the concurrent NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup, an international competition with six Mexican clubs from Liga MX Femenil. [16] The league champions, runners-up, and NWSL Shield winner also qualify for the CONCACAF W Champions Cup , the continental championship for women's teams in North America, Central ...
Arnim Whisler was a co-founding owner of the Chicago Red Stars in 2007 in the Women's Professional Soccer, the top American league at the time. [8] [9] He was owner of the Chicago Red Stars in the NWSL from the inception of the league in 2012 [10] until September 1, 2023, when Whisler and all minority owners of the Red Stars sold their stakes to an investment group led by Laura Ricketts, which ...
The NWSL grew to 14 teams this season with the addition of Bay FC and the return of the Utah Royals. The next expansion team, which will be based in Boston, will begin play in 2026.Additionally ...
The NWSL's top players typically make about $400,000 per year, but the minimum salary for the league is $36,400. The average player makes about $65,000 per season, according to Essentially Sports ...
In April, an NWSL expansion team in the Bay area sold for $53 million. Previous expansion fees for women’s soccer teams hovered between $2 to $5 million.
On April 4, 2023, the NWSL formally awarded one of its two planned 2024 expansion teams to a Bay Area group led by former US Women's National Team players Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton, and Aly Wagner, backed by majority owners and San Francisco-based investment firm Sixth Street Partners. The expansion fee was reported to be ...
The race for a National Women's Soccer League expansion team is down to the final three potential cities and Cincinnati is one of them, the league's commissioner announced Friday. After nearly a ...