If successful, the bid will bring top-tier professional women’s soccer to the Bay Area in 2024
The Bay Area reportedly is nearing the finish line to be one of the three expansion teams in the National Women’s Soccer League and would begin play in 2024, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal on Friday.
If the bid is successful, the team would be the first major women’s professional team in the Bay Area since the FC Gold Pride played for two seasons in the Women’s Professional Soccer league from 2009-2010. Before that, there was the San Jose CyberRays of the Women’s United Soccer Association that existed for three full seasons and the San Jose Lazers played parts of three seasons in the American Basketball League before that league folded during the 1998 season.
Adding a team in the Bay Area would seem natural — and long overdue — given the success and stars local college teams such as Santa Clara and Stanford have produced on the college field and with the U.S. women’s soccer team over the years.Adding three teams would bring the NWSL to 15. Boston would not field a team until 2025, according to the Wall Street Journal report.
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