Town of Atlanta will quickly rejoin the ranks of ladies’s skilled soccer after being awarded a brand new NWSL staff, in keeping with a number of reviews on Monday, Nov. 10.
Arthur Clean and his holding firm AMB Sports activities + Leisure, which additionally owns the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC of MLS and Mercedes-Benz Stadium, is ready to buy an NWSL growth staff for a league report $165 million, . The Atlanta Journal-Structure, , wrote an official announcement might come as quickly as Tuesday, as a part of a girls’s sports activities summit being held in Atlanta.
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The brand new staff is predicted to debut within the NWSL someday after the 2026 season, in keeping with the The Athletic, and can reportedly play its house matches at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
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NWSL champions via the years
2025: Washington Spirit (Problem Cup winner)
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NWSL champions via the years
2025: Washington Spirit (Problem Cup winner)
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NWSL champions via the years
2024: Orlando Satisfaction (defeated Washington Spirit within the 2024 NWSL Championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2023: NJ/NY Gotham FC (defeated OL Reign within the championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2023: North Carolina Braveness (Problem Cup winner)
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NWSL champions via the years
2022: Portland Thorns FC (defeated Kansas Metropolis Present within the championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2022: North Carolina Braveness (Problem Cup winner)
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NWSL champions via the years
2021: Washington Spirit (defeated Chicago Pink Stars within the championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2021; Portland Thorns FC (Problem Cup winner)
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NWSL champions via the years
2020: Houston Sprint (Problem Cup winner)
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NWSL champions via the years
2019: North Carolina Braveness (defeated Chicago Pink Stars within the championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2018: North Carolina Braveness (defeated Portland Thorns FC within the championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2016: Western New York Flash (defeated Washington Spirit within the championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2015: FC Kansas Metropolis (defeated Seattle Reign FC within the championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2014: FC Kansas Metropolis (defeated Seattle Reign FC within the championship sport)
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NWSL champions via the years
2013: Portland Thorns FC (defeated Western New York Flash within the championship sport)
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AMB Sports activities + Leisure mentioned in a press release to it has “had productive engagement with NWSL and others in its stakeholder group on the opportunity of bringing an growth franchise to Atlanta. We’ve got nothing to announce at present as these conversations are ongoing.” The NWSL declined remark in a number of reviews.
The reported $165 million growth payment can be 50% greater than . Different latest growth groups just like the Bay FC and Boston Legacy paid round $53 million, in keeping with The Athletic.
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Clean, the 83-year-old Residence Depot co-founder, can be bringing girls’s skilled soccer again to Atlanta after years of hypothesis it was a chief candidate for future NWSL growth. Town had the Atlanta Beat in two earlier girls’s leagues ‒ WUSA (2001-2003) and WPS (2010-2012) ‒ and drew a crowd of greater than 50,000 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for .
America Soccer Federation can also be , with a brand new facility made doable by a $50 million donation from Clean.
The NWSL would increase to 17 groups with the addition of Atlanta. The league is ready to extend from 14 to 16 groups for the 2026 season with Boston and Denver groups scheduled to start play.