USWNT star Sam Mewis converts a penalty kick conceded by her sister, Kristie, as the Courage beat the Dash to qualify for the NWSL playoffs.
NWSL: Crystal Dunn (4′) Portland Thorns 0-1 North Carolina Courage
Midge Purce tapped in two goals after Christine Sinclair’s opener to give the Portland Thorns a comfortable 3-0 win over the Chicago Red Stars.
Reign FC came back from a goal down to force a 1-1 draw with Sky Blue FC at Red Bull Arena.
Western Sydney Wanderers have landed a coup in signing United States forward Lynn Williams for the upcoming W-League season, sources have told ESPN.
ESPN understands that rival Australian side Melbourne City had also been engaged in talks with Williams to join the club from the beginning of the 2019-20 season but are now resigned to being comfortably outbid by Western Sydney.
Though she has never played in the W-League, Williams maintained her fitness by training with City during the 2018-19 W-League…
CARY, N.C. — They know a thing or two about soccer teams that are larger than life here. They knew long before the North Carolina Courage and Lyon won Thursday’s semifinals in the Women’s International Champions Cup.
People in this area lived it when Mia Hamm, Kristine Lilly and company ran the rest of college soccer off the field playing for Anson Dorrance at the University of North Carolina.
They experienced it when the U.S. women’s national team, far from distracted by its off-field fights for…
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NWSL: Crystal Dunn (4′) Portland Thorns 0-1 North Carolina Courage
The Portland Thorns scored twice in the second half to overcome the North Carolina Courage in a rematch of the 2017 and 2018 NWSL Championships.
Kristen Hamilton and Jessica McDonald led the way for the Courage, securing a 2-1 win over Utah on the road.
NWSL: Christen Press (13′) Utah Royals 1-0 North Carolina Courage
A pair of saves by Alyssa Naeher and an incredible goal from Sam Kerr helped Chicago beat NC Courage in front of a club record crowd of 17,388.
NWSL: Sam Kerr (58′) Chicago Red Stars 2-1 NC Courage
Matildas captain and star striker Sam Kerr sits down with ESPN to share her journey from Aussie rules to soccer and what coming home to Perth truly means.
On the eve of her third World Cup, Sam Kerr has her eyes firmly set on glory, taking down the US and what success would mean for women’s sport back home.
Sam Kerr has returned to the scoring ranks in the U.S. National Women’s Soccer League with a brilliantly-taken goal that secured her Chicago Red Stars a home victory over the competition’s defending champions.
Matildas captain Kerr was played in on 58 minutes and expertly nutmegged North Carolina Courage defender Abby Erceg on the edge of the box before slotting the ball through the legs of goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe to give Chicago a 2-1 win.
The Golden Boot winner in the NSWL and in the W-League…
A pair of saves by Alyssa Naeher and an incredible goal from Sam Kerr helped Chicago beat NC Courage in front of a club record crowd of 17,388.