Coverage of domestic and international tournaments, fan events, and special happenings involving U.S. women’s soccer teams.
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
The Savannah DeMelo lawsuit has put the medical care surrounding NWSL players back under the spotlight one year after the Racing Louisville midfielder suffered cardiac arrest during a match. DeMelo is suing University of Louisville Health and two physicians, alleging that a heart condition was not properly diagnosed or treated before she collapsed on the … Read more
Published September 15, 2026 Trinity Rodman had been in the stands for nearly every big match of Ben Shelton’s U.S. Open run this year — including a five-set quarterfinal against Carlos Alcaraz that didn’t end until 3 a.m. When Shelton reached his first Grand Slam final on Sunday, against world No. 2 Alexander Zverev, Rodman … Read more
Published September 14, 2026 On March 28, 2026, an NWSL expansion team played its first-ever home match, against a visiting club it had never faced before, and the result was a scoreless draw with almost no goalmouth drama to speak of. It’s also the answer to one of the most surprising numbers in the sport … Read more
Published September 13, 2026 Denver Summit FC and Angel City FC played to a 3-3 draw Friday night at BMO Stadium, and buried inside six goals and a wild finish was something genuinely rare: the fastest back-to-back goals scored by the same team in NWSL history, 59 seconds apart, with the second one belonging to … Read more
Published September 12, 2026 Gotham FC beat Racing Louisville FC 2-1 on Friday night in Kentucky, and the result itself was almost secondary to two things that happened alongside it: Rose Lavelle started a match for the first time since entering the NWSL’s concussion protocol nearly three weeks ago, and Guro Reiten scored her first-ever … 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
Two and a half years ago, on the night of the 2024 NWSL Draft, the Washington Spirit traded Ashley Sanchez to the North Carolina Courage for a draft pick and $250,000 in allocation money. Sanchez found out the way most players do — fast, and in public. She posted on Instagram that she was “shocked … Read more