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Published September 27, 2026 Kansas City Current beat Denver Summit FC 4-1 on Saturday, extending a record 30-match home unbeaten streak and keeping the club’s playoff hopes alive with four matches left. It’s the kind of result that looks, on the surface, like a team in control of its own fate. A closer look at … Read more
The landscape of professional women’s soccer in 2026 is defined by unprecedented structural maturation, tactical revolution, and shifting economic paradigms. Domestically, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) has expanded to a 16-team format, smashing attendance records and introducing complex salary cap regulations designed to retain global superstars against the financial gravity of European leagues. Internationally, … Read more
Published September 24, 2026 Bay FC named Paul Green its new chief football officer on Monday, hiring away one of the architects of Chelsea’s decade-long run atop the Women’s Super League to help rebuild a club that’s spent much of its third season searching for direction. It’s a hire worth reading two ways at once: … Read more
Published September 23, 2026 Portland beat Orlando 4-1 on Saturday at Inter&Co Stadium, and the result mattered in two directions that had nothing to do with each other. For Orlando, it was interim head coach Yolanda Thomas’s first loss since replacing Seb Hines earlier this month. For Portland, it snapped the club’s own three-match winless … Read more
Published September 23, 2026 Portland beat Orlando 4-1 on Saturday at Inter&Co Stadium, and the result mattered in two directions that had nothing to do with each other. For Orlando, it was interim head coach Yolanda Thomas’s first loss since replacing Seb Hines earlier this month. For Portland, it snapped the club’s own three-match winless … Read more
Published September 22, 2026 Eighteen current and former stars of women’s soccer — Alex Morgan, Marta, Crystal Dunn and Lindsey Heaps among them — sent an open letter to FIFA on Sept. 15 asking the governing body to move the U-20 Women’s World Cup into an official international match window. It’s a request this site’s … Read more
Published September 9, 2026 — updated as the qualifying picture develops Every USWNT storyline this year — every injury, every breakout NWSL season, every roster debate — eventually points back to the same place: a two-week tournament in Texas this November that could decide the Americans’ World Cup fate in a single 90-minute match. This … Read more
Published September 20, 2026 A note before this piece begins: it involves a player’s serious medical event and pending litigation. Everything below is reported as either confirmed fact or a clearly attributed legal allegation — no claims of medical negligence are treated as established, since that determination belongs to the court the case was filed … Read more
Published September 18, 2026 Ten days after a stunningly terse exit from the Kansas City Current — the club he’d just led to a record-setting NWSL Shield — Vlatko Andonovski is running soccer operations at the league’s last-place team instead. Chicago Stars FC announced Thursday that Andonovski, one of the most decorated coaches in NWSL … Read more
Former USWNT head coach Vlatko Andonovski is taking charge of Chicago’s sporting rebuild, just days after leaving the Kansas City Current. The Chicago Stars have made one of the most significant front-office moves of the 2026 NWSL season, hiring former U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Vlatko Andonovski as their new Chief Soccer Officer. The … Read more