For the primary time within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League’s 11 years of existence, free company and enlargement converged in the identical offseason. Mixed with an inflow of worldwide signings, the modifications intensified the annual development of offseason turnover.
Some groups have been left with extra vital questions than others.
Final season proved once more that no matter appears apparent at this stage of preseason seemingly just isn’t. NJ/NY Gotham FC went from final place in 2022 — miserably so, with a 12-game shedding streak — to champions in 2023. Drastic year-over-year fluctuation is the norm within the NWSL, even when Gotham’s makeover was excessive.
Many solutions are nonetheless to return — and groups aren’t completely performed making signings — however because it stands just a few weeks into preseason, these are the groups with the most important questions heading into the 2024 season (in alphabetical order).
Editor’s notice: We’ll be drilling specializing in different groups with large questions, too, as we already did with the Washington Spirit.
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