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The Houston Dash became the first expansion team in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and played its first season in 2014.. The expansion of the National Women's Soccer League began with the league's sophomore season in 2014, when the league expanded to a ninth team in Houston, and is an ongoing process that currently has seen five expansions, three direct or indirect relocations, and ...
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.
The first NWSL expansion team was the Houston Dash, who joined in 2014, and were followed by the Orlando Pride in 2016. [9] Two of the league's ten teams ceased operations prior to the 2018 season , while another had relocated a year earlier.
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, on March 15, 2024. The regular season began the following day and ran until November 3; [ 1 ] it paused for a month between July 8 and August 18 for the 2024 Summer Olympics .
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...