The USL Tremendous League, a first-division ladies’s skilled league nearing the conclusion of its inaugural season, will host its championship match on the weekend of June 14.
The eight-team league revealed its playoff format on Tuesday: 4 semifinalists will play on the weekend of June 7. The No. 1 seed will face the No. 4 seed whereas the second- and third-seeded groups will face off, with the upper seed internet hosting every single-elimination sport.
The league, which launched in August 2024, occupies the identical place atop U.S. Soccer’s ladies’s skilled pyramid because the extra established Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League (launched in 2013). One of many main factors of differentiation for the USL Tremendous League is a fall- to-spring calendar.
The USL Tremendous League kicked off in August and can wrap up in June, which aligns with most European leagues.
The NWSL begins in March and ends in November, following a standard American soccer calendar.
“We’re thrilled to unveil the dates for our inaugural playoffs,” Amanda Vandervort, the USL Tremendous League’s president, stated in a press release. “This marks an thrilling new chapter for the USL Tremendous League, as we convey collectively the highest groups within the league to compete for the first-ever last. We will not watch for the playoffs in June and to see who will rise to the event and turn into the league’s inaugural champions.”
Playoff video games will observe FIFA guidelines, with additional time and penalty kicks to observe if the rating is tied. Carolina Ascent FC, which is predicated in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the moment sits atop the league desk one level away from Brooklyn FC, which is winless in seven video games since play resumed in February.
Fort Lauderdale United FC and Dallas Trinity FC sit third and fourth, respectively.
Internet hosting is topic to league approval and venue availability, the USL Tremendous League stated in a press release. Venue sorts differ all through the league. Brooklyn performs at a transformed baseball stadium on Coney Island and needed to delay its debut on the venue till spring following subject questions of safety within the fall.
Fort Lauderdale took over the previous Miami Dolphins coaching facility to create a stadium of its personal. Tampa Bay Solar FC performs in a 5,000-seat stadium that’s situated at a riverfront highschool and that the crew renovated for its personal use.
Groups in Lexington, Kentucky, and Spokane, Washington, play in purpose-built stadiums alongside co-owned males’s crew.
Dallas operates in its personal excessive, enjoying on the 90,000-plus seat Cotton Bowl that’s sometimes underneath 10% capability.
The USL Tremendous League additionally introduced on Tuesday that it’ll hand out year-end awards with a slight twist. Along with a Golden Boot winner for the highest goal-scorer, a Golden Glove will likely be awarded to the goalkeeper with the bottom goals-against common (amongst those that have performed a minimum of 50% of the membership’s regular-season minutes).
The participant with essentially the most assists may even obtain the “Golden Playmaker.”
