USL Tremendous League president Amanda Vandervort (Corey Perrine/Florida Occasions-Union-USA TODAY NETWORK)
There are formally two first-division ladies’s skilled soccer leagues in the USA.
On Friday, U.S. Soccer formally sanctioned the USL Tremendous League to launch as a top-flight league in August alongside the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League, which has been the one first-division league within the U.S. since kicking off in 2013. The choice was finalized at U.S. Soccer’s Annual Basic Assembly in Dallas, Texas.
The USL Tremendous League will launch its 2024–25 season with eight groups, the minimal required by U.S. Soccer’s Professional Licensing Requirements. At the side of the sanctioning information, USLSL introduced a franchise in Brooklyn for the inaugural season to succeed in eight groups. Franchises in Phoenix, Ariz., and Tucson, Ariz., which USLSL beforehand introduced for the inaugural season, are actually listed by the league as markets for future seasons.
“It is a great second for the USL Tremendous League and for girls’s sports activities,” USL Tremendous League president Amanda Vandervort stated in an announcement. “Receiving Division One sanctioning additional showcases the work that our possession teams, our golf equipment, and the league are doing to create an expert setting for top-level expertise to compete. It is a essential step towards realizing our imaginative and prescient to be a world chief in ladies’s soccer on and off the sector. We can’t wait to see our golf equipment take the sector after we kick off in August 2024.”
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