Women's Soccer - Page 2

Arsenal
/ 686 days agoArsenal announces fastest-selling women's game for Man Utd clash
Arsenal has announced that they have already sold over 50,000 tickets for an upcoming Barclay's Super League matchup with the Manchester United women. It is now the fastest-selling English women's top-flight game in the club's history. The Red Devils are set to travel to north London to face their rivals on Saturday, February 17th. The […]

Chelsea
/ 696 days agoChelsea star Sam Kerr suffers serious knee injury in training
Sam Kerr, one of the best players in all of women's soccer, suffered a major knee injury during warm-weather training for Chelsea. The Chelsea women's team traveled to Morocco to continue training and get out of the cold weather in London. However, the Australian is going to miss considerable time, and perhaps the remainder of […]

Leagues: NWSL
/ 699 days agoGotham FC signs USWNT star duo Lavelle and Sonnett
NJ/NY Gotham FC has officially announced two significant signings ahead of the 2024 season. The reigning National Women's Soccer League champions have signed Rose Lavelle and Emily Sonnett to long-term deals. Both players agreed and signed three-year contracts. The duo previously played for OL Reign but departed recently as free agents. Despite barely qualifying for […]

American Soccer
/ 704 days agoReasons to be optimistic for American soccer in 2024
Soccer in the USA can sometimes feel tough to get excited about. Our leagues aren't the best in the world, organizational problems sometimes cause rifts between leagues and teams, and unfortunately far too often we lose professional clubs. But there are always reasons to be positive. And some fantastic things are on the way to […]

USWNT
/ 707 days agoRise of women's soccer: Journey to recognition and equality
As far as sports storylines go, the meteoric rise of women's soccer ranks among the most fascinating and motivating. A once-overlooked and underappreciated phenomenon has grown into a worldwide sensation, winning over audiences everywhere. The ascent from obscurity to prominence has been characterized by dogged persistence, fortitude, and the unrelenting quest for acknowledgment and parity. […]

FIFA
/ 708 days agoFIFA exempt from Women's World Cup tax while players pay big
A new report showed that players at the Women's World Cup in Australia, not FIFA, paid taxes on match earnings. FIFA reached an agreement with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) to not pay for earnings during the tournament. However, players in the competition paid up to 32.5% of their match fee income to the ATO. […]

TV Ratings
/ 716 days agoUSWNT 2023 TV ratings best since 2019
The USWNT TV ratings in 2023 were the best since 2019. In 2023, the USWNT's TV ratings averaged 1,560,929 viewers per game for 14 games where viewing figures were available. That is a whopping 330% increase over 2022's average of 362,692 viewers per game. Here are the TV ratings for the USWNT games in 2023. […]

Jacksonville Armada
/ 722 days agoSoccerwarz in Jacksonville: Sporting JAX joins the fight
The largest city in Florida isn't what you might think. It's not Miami, Tampa, or Orlando. It's Jacksonville – in both population and geographic size. As of 2020, nearly one million people live in the city, the eleventh-greatest population of any city in the USA. In fact, the city of Jacksonville has a greater population […]

CONCACAF
/ 723 days agoGroups set for 2024 W Gold Cup
A new era for women's soccer in North America is coming up in February. And now the USWNT, and everyone else, knows the lay of the land with the groups for the W Gold Cup set after the completion of the draw. 2024 W Gold Cup Groups The twelve competitors – nine already qualified plus […]

United States
/ 724 days agoUSWNT 2023 attendance best since 2019
Now that the United States Women's National Team (USWNT) has completed all of its games for the 2023 calendar year, it's time to look at how the USWNT 2023 attendance did. In 2023, the USWNT averaged an attendance of 17,961. That came throughout 12 home games in friendlies and the She Believes Cup. Averaging just […]

USWNT
/ 726 days ago2027 Women's World Cup bids come down to the wire
The 2023 Women's World Cup just wrapped up this past summer. But now eyes turn to the next edition of the premier women's soccer event. Today is the final day for countries to submit their bids to host the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup, and one major entrant waited until the last moment. USA and […]

CONCACAF
/ 728 days agoCONCACAF W Gold Cup draw scheduled for first-ever contest
A new era for women's soccer in North America is set to kick off early next Spring. The first-ever CONCACAF W Gold Cup will take place in California and Texas, and the draw will be staged on December 11 to get things rolling. 12 teams to compete in the inaugural CONCACAF W Gold Cup The […]

CBS Sports
/ 728 days agoThe strategy behind CBS Sports' success with soccer
CBS Sports has grown its soccer content in variety and scope since re-entering the soccer space in the summer of 2020. At that time, it took over broadcasting of the UEFA Champions League after Turner Sports decided it didn't want to continue televising the competition. Since then, the programming decisions CBS makes in soccer have […]

USWNT
/ 735 days ago2024 CONCACAF W Gold Cup: Schedule and venues revealed
Concacaf released the sites and dates for the debut edition of the 2024 Women's Gold Cup. This tournament marks the first edition of the Gold Cup specifically for national teams in the region. The qualification process is currently in progress and is set to continue until February 2024. The competition will take place at four […]

Business of Soccer
/ 736 days agoOne-third of Women's World Cup players earn less than $30K
A recent study has found that a significant amount of players at the 2023 Women's World Cup had earnings lower than $30,000 last year. FIFPRO, the worldwide soccer player representative organization, conducted the poll by asking 260 total players about their wages. These featured athletes were from 26 of the 32 participating national teams at […]