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2023: Dates: March 25 – November 11: Champions: NJ/NY Gotham FC (1st title) NWSL Shield: San Diego Wave FC (1st shield) Challenge Cup: North Carolina Courage (2nd cup) CONCACAF W Champions Cup: NJ/NY Gotham FC San Diego Wave FC Portland Thorns FC: Matches played: 132: Goals scored: 339 (2.57 per match) Top goalscorer: Sophia Smith (11 goals ...
The North Carolina Courage and Seattle Reign FC, each with three NWSL Shields since the league's inception in 2013, are tied as of 2023 for the most shields won by any NWSL team. [1] [2] [3] The Orlando Pride are the current winners. In 2024, CONCACAF announced that the NWSL Shield winner and runner-up qualified by virtue of those ...
The league also plays the NWSL Challenge Cup, which since 2024 is a single-game super cup between the current NWSL Shield holder and current NWSL Champion. The Challenge Cup originated in 2020 as a way for all teams to return to play after the halt from the COVID-19 pandemic (though one team had to drop out because of COVID).
Gotham's Ali Krieger played 90 minutes in her final regular-season match before retiring at the end of the season, becoming among just four players to log 15,000 NWSL minutes. She was honored in a ...
The Orlando Pride have had a dominant 2024, going unbeaten in the first 23 matches of the regular season and lifting the NWSL Shield (given to the league's regular-season champion) after a 2-0 win ...
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[19] [20] The "double"—an NWSL Championship and NWSL Shield in the same season—has been won three times: by the North Carolina Courage in 2018 and 2019, and by the Orlando Pride in 2024. [ 19 ] [ 21 ] Orlando also set the league's all-time points record during the 2024 season, with 60 points and an 18–2–6 record . [ 22 ]
Orlando, the NWSL shield winner, was commanding and comprehensive Friday night in a 4-1 victory over Chicago. Kansas City, the league's top scorers and chance creators, shut out and raced past ...