List of National Women's Soccer League stadiums

The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is the highest-level professional soccer league for women in the United States. The league has had a maximum of 10 teams, reaching that number in the 2016 and 2017 seasons and again in the upcoming 2021 season, and will expand further to 12 teams in 2022. Before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the 2020 season to be abbreviated, starting with a World Cup-style championship tournament and followed by a regionalized fall series, eight of the teams planned to use a single stadium for all home games in that season. The remaining team, the Washington Spirit, intended to split its 12 home matches evenly between three stadiums in its region.[1]

Locations of National Women's Soccer League teams.
Current club; Future club

The highest attendance in the league's history occurred on August 11, 2019 at Providence Park when 25,218 people watched Portland Thorns FC defeat the North Carolina Courage 2–1 in a regular-season home match.[2]

Originally, many NWSL teams rented university stadiums. As the league has grown, NWSL teams have increasingly used MLS stadiums, either by MLS ownership of NWSL team or increased cooperation between existing NWSL and MLS teams.

Primary stadiums

These stadiums are intended to be used in the upcoming 2021 season. Due to COVID-19, these venues should be considered tentative. All capacities listed are full capacities for NWSL matches, and do not reflect potential COVID-19 restrictions.

Team Location Stadium Capacity Surface Field Lines Image
Chicago Red Stars Bridgeview, Illinois SeatGeek Stadium 20,000[3] Kentucky bluegrass soccer-specific
Houston Dash Houston, Texas BBVA Stadium 7,000[lower-alpha 1][4] Bermuda grass soccer-specific
Kansas City NWSL Kansas City, Kansas Field of Legends 10,385 Grass Baseball park
North Carolina Courage Cary, North Carolina WakeMed Soccer Park 10,000 Grass soccer-specific
OL Reign Tacoma, Washington Cheney Stadium 6,500 Grass Baseball park
Orlando Pride Orlando, Florida Exploria Stadium 25,500 Grass soccer-specific
Portland Thorns FC Portland, Oregon Providence Park 25,218 FieldTurf soccer-specific
Racing Louisville FC Louisville, Kentucky Lynn Family Stadium 11,700[lower-alpha 2] Bermuda grass soccer-specific
Sky Blue FC Harrison, New Jersey Red Bull Arena 25,000 Kentucky bluegrass soccer-specific
Washington Spirit Leesburg, Virginia Segra Field 5,000 Artificial soccer-specific
Washington, D.C. Audi Field 20,000 Bermuda grass soccer-specific
  1. Artificially restricted capacity; full capacity is 22,039.
  2. Seated capacity; 15,304 with standing room.

Future stadiums

The Sacramento team set to join in 2022 has yet to announce its home venue.

Team Location Stadium Capacity Surface Field
Lines		 Effective
date		 Image
Angel City FC Los Angeles, California Banc of California Stadium 22,000 Bermuda grass soccer-specific 2022
OL Reign Tacoma, Washington Heidelberg Sports Village Stadium 5,000 TBD soccer-specific TBD

Secondary and former stadiums

See also

References
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