Locations of National Women's Soccer League teams.
Current club; Future club

The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is the highest-level professional league for women's soccer in the United States. The league has 12 teams in its 2023 season, and each team has one primary home stadium.

As of July 10, 2023, the league's largest standalone match attendance in its history is 32,000, for a venue-capacity sellout crowd at a San Diego Wave FC 1–0 home victory against regional rivals Angel City FC. The match was Wave FC's first at the newly opened Snapdragon Stadium.[1] The league's largest attendance at a doubleheader match is 42,054, counting tickets sold to both matches between Major League Soccer teams Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers and the NWSL's OL Reign and Portland Thorns FC.[2]

Primary stadiums

These are the primary stadiums in the 2023 NWSL season:

Team Location Stadium Capacity Surface Field lines Image
Angel City FC Los Angeles, California BMO Stadium 22,000 Bermuda grass soccer-specific
Chicago Red Stars Bridgeview, Illinois SeatGeek Stadium 20,000 Kentucky bluegrass soccer-specific Toyota Park in March 2013
Houston Dash Houston, Texas Shell Energy Stadium 7,000[lower-alpha 1] Bermuda grass soccer-specific
Kansas City Current Kansas City, Kansas Children's Mercy Park 18,467 Grass soccer-specific
NJ/NY Gotham FC Harrison, New Jersey Red Bull Arena 25,000 Kentucky bluegrass soccer-specific
North Carolina Courage Cary, North Carolina WakeMed Soccer Park 10,000 Grass soccer-specific
Orlando Pride Orlando, Florida Exploria Stadium 25,500 Grass soccer-specific
Portland Thorns FC Portland, Oregon Providence Park 25,218 FieldTurf soccer-specific
Racing Louisville FC Louisville, Kentucky Lynn Family Stadium 11,700[lower-alpha 2] Bermuda grass soccer-specific
San Diego Wave FC San Diego, California Snapdragon Stadium 32,000[lower-alpha 3] Bermuda grass multi-purpose
Seattle Reign FC Seattle, Washington Lumen Field 10,000[lower-alpha 4] FieldTurf multi-purpose
Washington Spirit Washington, D.C. Audi Field 20,000 Bermuda grass soccer-specific
  1. ↑ Shell Energy Stadium has a capacity of 22,039, but capacity for Dash games are restricted to 7,000.[3]
  2. ↑ Seated capacity; 15,304 with standing room.
  3. ↑ Standard configuration for Wave FC games seats 18,000, but can expand based on demand for individual games.
  4. ↑ Lumen Field has a capacity of 68,740; standard configuration for Reign games seats 10,000 but can expand based on demand for individual games.[4]

Future stadiums

Team Location Stadium Capacity Surface Field
lines		 Effective
date		 Image
Bay FC San Jose, California PayPal Park 18,000 SISGrass hybrid grass soccer-specific 2024
Kansas City Current Kansas City, Missouri CPKC Stadium 11,500 Grass[5] soccer-specific 2024
Utah Royals Sandy, Utah America First Field[lower-alpha 1] 20,213 Kentucky bluegrass soccer-specific 2024
  1. ↑ During the Royals' original stint in the league from 2018–2020, the team played in this facility, then known as Rio Tinto Stadium.

Secondary and former stadiums

Angel City FC

Boston Breakers

Chicago Red Stars

FC Kansas City

Kansas City Current

NJ/NY Gotham FC

Orlando Pride

San Diego Wave FC

Seattle Reign FC

Utah Royals

  • Rio Tinto Stadium (as Utah Royals FC: 2018–2020 – all home matches). Also hosted semifinals and final of 2020 Challenge Cup.

Washington Spirit

  • Maryland SoccerPlex (2013–2020 – all home matches through 2017; primary home in 2018 and 2019; originally scheduled matches in 2020 canceled due to COVID-19)[27]
  • Segra Field (2020–2022 – select home matches as one of two primary home stadiums alongside Audi Field)[28]

Western New York Flash

2020 NWSL Challenge Cup

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Match Recap: San Diego tops Angel City in front of capacity crowd for first win at Snapdragon Stadium" (Press release). National Women's Soccer League. September 18, 2022. Retrieved September 18, 2022.
  2. ↑ Evans, Jayda (June 3, 2023). "OL Reign lose to Thorns for first time since 2019 to cap soccer twinbill". The Seattle Times. Retrieved June 4, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Dynamo welcome NWSL expansion team: Houston Dash". Retrieved December 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ Rantz, Susie (December 15, 2021). "OL Reign's move to Lumen Field, explained". Sounder At Heart.
  5. ↑ Chaney, Marcia (February 15, 2023). "KC Current's new stadium poised to revolutionize women's athletics". MetroWire Media. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  6. ↑ "NWSL Releases Schedule For 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup" (Press release). National Women's Soccer League. February 7, 2022. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  7. ↑ Hemming, Nick (October 10, 2013). "Analyzing the Breakers' Home: What Do We Make of Dilboy Stadium?". The Bent Musket. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Boston Breakers to Play at Harvard Stadium in 2014" (Press release). Boston Breakers. January 7, 2014. Archived from the original on January 7, 2014. Retrieved January 7, 2014.
  9. ↑ Yang, Stephanie (February 15, 2017). "Mark Thomas talks Breakers business plans for 2017". The Bent Musket. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  10. ↑ "Chicago Red Stars Announce Doubleheader With Chicago Fire" (Press release). Chicago Red Stars. February 11, 2014. Retrieved February 11, 2014.
  11. ↑ "NWSL Announces Complete 2015 Regular Season Schedule" (Press release). Chicago Red Stars. February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 9, 2015.
  12. ↑ "Red Stars come back to tie Dash, 1–1; Christen Press scored the game-tying goal in the 90th minute" (Press release). National Women's Soccer League. Archived from the original on September 10, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Kansas City advances to final after defeating Chicago, 3–0; Amy Rodriguez (2) and Erika Tymrak both scored in the first half" (Press release). National Women's Soccer League.
  14. ↑ Sandalow, Brian (July 30, 2022). "Saturday's doubleheader only part of Fire-Red Stars relationship". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  15. ↑ "FC Kansas City names venue for 2013 season" (Press release). FC Kansas City. February 6, 2013. Archived from the original on February 11, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  16. ↑ "FC Kansas City to play to fewer seats, no football lines". The Equalizer. January 8, 2014. Retrieved January 8, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Swope Park Soccer Village now has lost both its marquee tenants". Kansas City Business Journal. January 19, 2018. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  18. ↑ Cash, Meredith (October 28, 2021). "Kansas City's women's soccer team is building a stunning new stadium after an MLS club resisted sharing its home field". Insider. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  19. ↑ Tannenwald, Jonathan (July 24, 2019). "Sky Blue FC aims to leave Rutgers' Yurcak Field after 2019 NWSL season, but next home isn't set yet". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
  20. ↑ "Sky Blue FC announces 2021 NWSL Challenge Cup presented by Secret Deodorant schedule" (Press release). NJ/NY Gotham FC. March 9, 2021. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  21. ↑ Tannenwald, Jonathan (April 29, 2022). "Subaru Park to host Gotham FC-Orlando Pride NWSL game Aug. 20". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  22. ↑ Murschel, Matt (April 5, 2019). "Camping World new title sponsor for Orlando Citrus Bowl". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  23. ↑ Balleweg, Joey (August 20, 2022). "Wave FC says goodbye to its first home". The Striker. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  24. ↑ Eaton, Nick (January 23, 0213). "Seattle Reign FC to play at Starfire Stadium; ticket prices announced". Sports Blog. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  25. ↑ Daniels, Chris (May 27, 2019). "Future of Seattle's Memorial Stadium in limbo after 70 years". KING-TV. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  26. ↑ Bell, Gregg (December 15, 2021). "OL Reign moving pro women's soccer out of Tacoma, back to Seattle to play at Lumen Field". The News Tribune. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  27. ↑ "Washington Spirit to play 2020 games at Audi Field, Segra Field and the Maryland SoccerPlex" (Press release). Washington Spirit. November 12, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  28. ↑ Carlisle, André (December 6, 2022). "Segra No More: Washington Spirit to play all games at Audi Field starting in 2023". Black And Red United.
  29. ↑ Gorbman, Randy (January 9, 2017). "Western New York Flash makes it official: the team is moving to North Carolina". WXXI-TV. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
  30. ↑ "WNY Flash, Seattle tie in rematch of controversial game at Frontier Field". Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. July 17, 2016. Retrieved July 18, 2016.
  31. ↑ Kassouf, Jeff (May 27, 2020). "NWSL to return to field June 27 with 'Challenge Cup' in Utah". The Equalizer. Retrieved July 10, 2023.
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