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The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a top-level professional league for women's soccer in the United States. The league has 14 teams in its 2024 season . Primary stadiums
The NWSL became the first U.S. professional women's soccer league to reach nine teams with the addition of Houston Dash, backed by Major League Soccer (MLS) team Houston Dynamo, in 2014; expansion interest, particularly from MLS and USL teams, has continued.
Several NWSL teams share ownership or their home venues with men's teams in Major League Soccer (MLS) and the USL Championship who play in the same markets. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The league had an average attendance of over 11,000 during the 2024 regular season and set a record for total attendance of over 2 million spectators.
The 2025 NWSL regular season will officially kick off on Friday, March 14, and runs through Sunday, Nov. 2. Each team will play 26 games, and will play each other NWSL team once at home and once away.
The NWSL teams participating are Angel City, Bay FC, Houston, Portland, San Diego and Seattle. MLS matches will take place Feb. 1-15 with NWSL teams taking center stage the final week.
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.
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.
NWSL Team of the Month; List of National Women's Soccer League transactions 2023; U. List of Utah Royals FC players; W. List of Washington Spirit players