NWSL In ‘Advanced Siscussions’ To Expand To Boston, Utah, San Francisco

In keeping with the Wall Avenue Journal, the NWSL is on the verge of increasing to 3 main cities. The league is in superior discussions with potential possession teams to carry groups to Boston, Utah and and the San Francisco Bay Space.

The report states the teams concerned with launching groups in Boston and the Bay Space should pay $50 million in enlargement charges. The group in Utah should pay someplace between $2-$5 million, an quantity decided a couple of years in the past when the 2 sides entered negotiations.

“We stay engaged in our enlargement course of and are enthusiastic about our prospects,” a league spokesperson mentioned. “When we’ve information to share, we’ll achieve this.”

The Bay Space group is comprised of former U.S. girls’s soccer greats Brandi Chastain, Aly Wagner, Leslie Osborne and Danielle Slaton together with private-equity agency Sixth Avenue Companions. The Boston group is led by Jennifer Epstein,  the daughter of Celtics co-owner Robert Epstein and founding father of Juno Fairness.

Each Boston and Utah have a historical past of ladies’s soccer of their respective areas. The Utah Royals had been part of the NWSL from 2018-2020 earlier than transferring to Kansas Metropolis following allegations of racism from possession on the time. The league by no means dominated out Utah’s reintegration into the NWSL and seems to be all-in on bringing a franchise again to the realm. Boston was represented by the Boston Breakers had been part of the NWSL for 5 years earlier than folding in 2018. In addition they appeared within the Girls’s United Soccer Affiliation and Girls’s Skilled Soccer, two leagues that now not exists.