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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 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 .
In May 2024, Cleveland Soccer Group released the location and initial renderings of the soccer-specific stadium. [116] In September 2024, Cleveland Soccer Group announced a partnership with Cleveland Metroparks and that they had completed a $4.2 million deal to purchase 14 acres of land for a future NWSL soccer stadium. [117]
The stadium, which cost about $125 million, opened in March and sold out its inaugural season. ... Grammy-winning artist Melissa Etheridge will perform the national anthem at the 2024 NWSL ...
The NWSL has selected CPKC Stadium, the newly built home of the Kansas City Current, as its venue for the 2024 NWSL Championship, the league announced Wednesday. The soccer-specific stadium, which ...
Last year’s NWSL championship game was hosted at Snapdragon Stadium and won by New Jersey/New York Gotham FC 2-1 over the OL Reign (now Seattle Reign). Daniel Sperry covers soccer for The Star.
In the 2024 season, every NWSL team will use one stadium as its primary home venue. The highest single-game attendance in the league's history was on June 8, 2024, for a game between the Chicago Red Stars and Bay FC at Wrigley Field which drew 35,038. [84]
[4] [5] Canadian Pacific Kansas City, abbreviated to CPKC in the stadium name, has the current naming rights. [6] It is the first privately financed stadium purpose-built exclusively for a professional women's soccer team. [7] In 2024, the Current became the first NWSL side to sell out all of their home matches.