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Anonymous
| Women's league appears to be gaining good momentum each year. |
Anonymous
According to who? Surely not money or viewers lmfao |
Anonymous
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The USL W continues to add teams every year, but it remains a short season summer league with the rosters ebbing and flowing a bit due to different commitments and callups.
I think the W overall is great and the support that many clubs teams are receiving has been really good. The new Annapolis Blues team had over 6200 fans for their first home game and Richmond had 6000 to open and averages about 4500 a game. The clubs tend to do a great job with outreach and spend a ton of time after the games talking to young fans, signing shirts, etc. The local "Chesapeake" division has teams only as far west a Charlottesville to VA Beach and then up to Annapolis. No DC based teams in the W League though. It will be interesting to see how the league continues to grow and if it ever becomes something more than just the short season summer league. |
Anonymous
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W league has been around for years. This current run of the league is in its 4 year. Many players past and present played in W league before going Pro. Coaches such as Emma Hayes starting in the league many years ago. The season is short because it’s of the players are in school and have to report back to their programs. But it’s a high level summer league and the players really enjoy it
Teams in this area Nova FC - Chantilly/ Loudoun area Marauders FC - Springfield/ Fairfax area Patuxent FC - also near Annapolis Annapolis Richmond |
Anonymous
Thanks for pointing out the DC area teams that were missed in another post. The play is pretty decent and you get to see local college age players either staying in town to play or coming home. There are also some high level younger players getting some play as well. |
Anonymous
| It’s a summer league for college girls. Stop flexing |
Anonymous
| Im not sure why you think someone is flexing and why you are making this a negative thing? |
Anonymous
Where was it said that it was anything but that? Short season summer league. Mostly college players. Some teams have been driving some nice attendance numbers. Good for the community. |
Anonymous
I was at the Annapolis game last night. They do a good job with pretty much everything...stadium, food, drinks, gear...lots of youngsters. Good game and 2100 in attendance on a Wednesday night. |
Anonymous
This is the first year for their women's squad. The men's team just switched over to USL2 as well from NPSL. They drive crazy numbers on the men's side - over 12000 at their opener. They have a great marketing department for sure packing that many fans in for summer league soccer. Full disclosure, nephew is rostered on the men's team. |
Anonymous
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Thought this was about creating a winter super y league for youth soccer, disappointed.
USL sees this they might create one |