NWSL: Christine Sinclair (12′) Portland Thorns 1-0 Chicago Red Stars
Margaret 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.
South Africa women’s national team captain Janine van Wyk has signed a one-year deal with Danish pro club Fortuna Hjorring, she announced on Saturday.
Van Wyk, who is South Africa’s most capped international footballer, male or female, played at this year’s Women’s World Cup in France, but has been without a pro deal since leaving the Houston Dash at the end of the last NWSL season.
She spent two terms with the Dash before parting ways, and returned home to play with her own club, JvW FC, which…
With the exception of one game, the 2019 NWSL season will step aside for an international break after the Chicago Red Stars and Portland Thorns conclude this week’s schedule (ESPNEWS, 3 p.m. ET Sunday) in a showdown between teams currently occupying first and second place.
While many of the league’s players will stay busy in the interim with the U.S. national team’s Victory Tour, Euro 2021 qualifying or the U-23 Nordic Tournament in England, the break is one last pause in the stretch run. By the…
Reign FC came back from a goal down to force a 1-1 draw with Sky Blue FC at Red Bull Arena.
NWSL: Elizabeth Eddy (36′) Sky Blue FC 1-0 Reign FC
NWSL: Crystal Dunn (4′) Portland Thorns 0-1 North Carolina Courage
NWSL: Rosie White (21′) Houston Dash 0-1 Reign FC
Kristen Hamilton and Jessica McDonald led the way for the Courage, securing a 2-1 win over Utah on the road.
NWSL: Jessica McDonald (54′) Utah Royals FC 1-2 North Carolina Courage
NWSL: Christen Press (13′) Utah Royals 1-0 North Carolina 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.
Matildas defender Clare Polkinghorne’s stint with American club Houston Dash is over with the veteran returning to Australia for personal reasons.
The Dash announced on Thursday that the 30-year-old had been granted an immediate release due to “personal family reasons.”
Capped 118 times by Australia, Polkinghorne has been with the National Women’s Soccer League club since June 2018 and has been an ever-present this season either side of this year’s Women’s World Cup in France.
Clare Polkinghorne’s stint with American club Houston Dash is over with the veteran returning to Australia for personal reasons.
Polkinghorne leaves…
Two-time World Cup winner and Eagles fan Carli Lloyd nailed her field goal attempts as far as 55 yards out at Philadelphia’s practice with the Baltimore Ravens..
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…
NWSL: Crystal Dunn (4′) Portland Thorns 0-1 North Carolina Courage
PORTLAND, Ore. — It wasn’t the largest crowd ever to watch a professional women’s soccer game in this country, but it was the largest crowd that knew what it signed up for.
The 25,218 people who filled Providence Park on Sunday afternoon to watch the Portland Thorns play the North Carolina Courage, the largest crowd in NWSL history and second-largest in any of three attempts at a domestic league, weren’t there for what women’s soccer could be. They weren’t there for the potential.
They came…
A National Women’s Soccer League-record 25,218 fans watched the home Portland Thorns beat the North Carolina Courage 2-1 at Providence Park on Sunday.
The game featured numerous stars from the U.S. national team that won the Women’s World Cup this summer in France. Among them was Crystal Dunn, who scored in the fourth minute to put the Courage on top early. The Thorns evened it on a North Carolina own goal in the 56th minute and went ahead on another in the 82nd.
The game was a rematch of last season’s…