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The Sacramento NWSL bid team, which had already paid expansion fees, requested to move its expansion rights to San Diego. On June 8, 2021, the NWSL confirmed that San Diego had been awarded an expansion team, led by Burkle and team president Jill Ellis. The team, named San Diego Wave FC, officially joined the league for the 2022 season. [78]
In May 2021, it was reported that the ownership group behind the Sacramento expansion would be seeking NWSL approval to move its expansion rights to San Diego instead. [77] On June 8, 2021, the NWSL officially announced a San Diego expansion team, ultimately named San Diego Wave FC , with former United States women's national soccer team head ...
The NWSL became the first major professional sports league in the United States to eliminate the college draft and the expansion draft in adopting the new CBA late last August.
The 2024 NWSL Expansion Draft was an expansion draft held by the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) on December 15, 2023, for two expansion teams, Bay FC and Utah Royals, to select players from existing teams in the league.
The top-flight NWSL currently has 12 teams, while the semi-pro WPSL, which the Storm plays in, has 135. Despite their status in a lower-tier league, the Storm are one of the most well-known in the ...
Women’s soccer just won a 40x raise as the NWSL signs a $240 million TV deal with CBS, ESPN, Amazon and Scripps ... was free of charge. ... an NWSL expansion team in the Bay area sold for $53 ...
The 2025 season is the upcoming 13th season for the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top division of women's soccer in the United States.Including the NWSL's two professional predecessors, Women's Professional Soccer (2009–2011) and the Women's United Soccer Association (2001–2003), it will be the 19th overall season of FIFA and USSF-sanctioned top division women's soccer in the ...
The NWSL will be the first major professional sports league in the U.S. to do away with college and expansion drafts and allow players to go right into unrestricted free agency.