The 2024 Bay FC season will be

Bay FC Bay Football Club (Bay FC) is an American professional women's association football, soccer team based in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. They are set to begin play in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) as an expansion team in th ...

's inaugural season as a professional women's soccer team. It plays in the

National Women's Soccer League The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a professional women's soccer league at the top of the United States league system. It is owned by the teams and, until 2020, was under a management contract with the United States Soccer Federatio ...

Background

On April 4, 2023, the NWSL formally awarded one of its two planned 2024 expansion teams to a Bay Area group led by former US Women's National Team players

Brandi Chastain Brandi Denise Chastain (born July 21, 1968) is an American retired soccer player, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, two-time Olympic gold-medalist, coach, and sports broadcaster. She played for the United States national team from 1988 ...

, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton, and

Aly Wagner Alyson Kay Wagner (born August 10, 1980) is an American sports broadcaster and retired soccer midfielder who last played for Los Angeles Sol of Women's Professional Soccer and the United States women's national soccer team. She is a two-time ...

, backed by majority owners and San Francisco-based investment firm Sixth Street Partners. The expansion fee was reported to be $53 million.

Team

Squad

Competitions

Preseason

Friendlies

Regular season

Regular season standings

Results summary

Results by matchday

NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup

Transactions

2024 NWSL Expansion Draft

The

2024 NWSL Expansion Draft The 2024 NWSL Expansion Draft was an expansion draft held by the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) on December 15, 2023, for two expansion teams, Bay FC and Utah Royals, to select players from existing teams in the league. Format Bay FC will ...

was held on December 15, 2023.

2024 NWSL Draft

Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. The

2024 NWSL Draft The 2024 NWSL Draft presented by Ally will be the twelfth annual meeting of National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) franchises to select amateur players above the age of 18 playing in the United States who exhausted, lost, or renounced any remaini ...

was held on December 14, 2023.

Transfers in

Transfers out

Preseason trialists

Trialists are non-rostered invitees during preseason and are not automatically signed. Bay released their preseason roster on January 23, 2024.