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The Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League’s foolish season is right here, crammed with trades, transfers, and free agent signings (to not point out teaching motion).
Sustain with all of the signings and offers with our 2024-25 NWSL Offseason Switch Tracker. The place relevant, we’ll additionally present perception into what’s occurring to provide the deeper context you anticipate from The Equalizer, leaders in ladies’s soccer protection since 2009.
This runs in reverse chronological order, so scroll all the way down to catch up.
Houston Sprint re-sign ahead Avery Patterson
(Dec. 5, 2024) Rookie ahead Avery Patterson has re-signed with the Houston Sprint on a three-year contract, via the 2027 NWSL season. Patterson featured in 23 matches, recording one objective and two assists.
Chicago Pink Stars signal midfielder Maitane López
(Dec. 5, 2024) Spanish midfielder Maitane López has signed a two-year contract with the Chicago Pink Stars. López joined Gotham FC in 2023 after a two-year stint with Atletico Madrid in her native Spain. She additionally hung out in her profession with Collerense, Levante and Actual Sociedad. With the Spanish ladies’s nationwide crew, López has two senior caps.
Seattle Reign signal defender Madison Curry
(Dec. 4, 2024) Madison Curry signed a three-year contract with the Seattle Reign, via the 2027 NWSL season. Curry was chosen within the fourth spherical of the 2024 NWSL Draft, and featured in 22 matches and recorded one help. She logged over 1,500 league minutes. Curry was a free-agent signing for the Reign.
Angel Metropolis re-signs goalkeeper Hannah Stambaugh
(Dec. 4, 2024) Hannah Stambaugh has re-signed with Angel Metropolis FC for the 2025 NWSL season. A local of Tokyo, Japan, Stambaugh featured for Omiya Ardija Ventus for 3 seasons till becoming a member of Angel Metropolis. Whereas she didn’t make an official league look final 12 months, Stambaugh did begin in objective in a pleasant in opposition to Liga MX Femenil facet FC Juarez in August.
Houston Sprint signal midfielder Delanie Sheehan
(Dec. 4, 2024) Delanie Sheehan has signed a two-year contract with the Houston Sprint with a mutual possibility for the 2027 NWSL season. She was a free agent who had been with NJ/NY Gotham FC since being drafted there in 2021. Sheehan was an vital member of Gotham’s 2023 championship crew and he or she began in 24 video games in 2024, logging over 2,000 minutes.
INSIGHT: Sheehan is an even bigger loss than you would possibly assume for Gotham. The apparent query to ask is: Why depart a championship contender for the last-place crew within the NWSL, a spot with no common supervisor or head coach and a crew that has been an unmitigated catastrophe this 12 months? The reply is unquestionably extra detailed than this, however sources inform EQZ that Sheehan acquired a significant pay elevate — exponentially greater than her prior Gotham deal that considerably underpaid her. — Jeff Kassouf
