The 2009

Women's Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 sea ...

season served as the inaugural season for WPS, the top level professional

women's soccer Women's association football, more commonly known simply as women's football or women's soccer, is a team sport of association football when played by women only. It is played at the professional level in multiple countries and 176 national ...

league in the United States. The regular season began on March 29 and ended on August 9, with the postseason being held between August 15 and 21.

Competition format

* The season began on March 29 and ended on August 9. * Each team played a total of 20 games evenly divided between home and away games. Each team played every other team three times, either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away, for a total of 18 games. The remaining two games were played against two other teams, one at home and one away. * The four teams with the most points from the regular season qualified for the playoffs. The third- and fourth-placed regular season finishers played each other in the single-match First Round. The winner of the First Round then faced the second-placed regular season finisher in the Super Semifinal, and the winner faced the first-placed regular season finisher in the WPS Final.

Results table

Standings

Attendance

Average home attendances

Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.

Playoffs

Leaders

Last updated: August 4, 2009

Offense

Fouls

Goalkeeping

''270+ MINS only''

Awards

Player of the Week

Player of the Month

Statistics

Scoring

*First Goal of the Season:

Allison Falk Allison Jane Falk (born March 31, 1987) is a former American professional soccer defender. She previously played for the Los Angeles Sol and Philadelphia Independence of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). She was a WPS All-Star in 2010. Earl ...

for

Los Angeles Sol The Los Angeles Sol was an American professional soccer club that was based in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The team was co-owned and operated by Blue Star, LLC and AEG, a subsidia ...

against

Washington Freedom Washington Freedom was an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Germantown, Maryland, that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The Freedom was founded in 2001 as a member of the defunct Women's Uni ...

, 6th minute (March 29) *Earliest Goal in a Match: 2 minutes **

Kelly Smith Kelly Jayne Smith (born 29 October 1978) is an English former football forward who spent three spells with FA WSL club Arsenal Ladies. After moving to the United States, Smith broke records with Seton Hall University then played professionally ...

for

Boston Breakers The Boston Breakers were an American professional soccer club based in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). They replaced the original Breakers, who competed in the defunct Women's ...

against

(2 May) **

Eniola Aluko Eniola Aluko (born 21 February 1987) is a football executive, commentator, and former professional player. She is the first Sporting Director for Angel City FC of the American National women's soccer league and formerly held the position of Spor ...

for

Saint Louis Athletica Saint Louis Athletica was an American professional soccer club that was based in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri that participated in Women's Professional Soccer. Athletica started the 2009 season playing its home games at Ralph Korte S ...

against

Sky Blue FC NJ/NY Gotham FC is a professional women's soccer team based in Harrison, New Jersey. Founded in 2006 as Jersey Sky Blue, the team was known as Sky Blue FC from 2008 until 2020. A founding member of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) in 2013 ...

(June 28) *Latest Goal in a Match: 93+ minutes ** Jennifer Nobis for

against

(July 12) *Widest Winning Margin: 4 goals **

Chicago Red Stars The Chicago Red Stars are a professional women's soccer club based in Bridgeview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A founding member of the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league, they have played in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) sin ...

4–0

(April 25) **

4–0

(June 27) *Most Goals Scored in a Match: 8 **

4–4

(April 26) *First Hat-Trick: Cristiane for

against

FC Gold Pride FC Gold Pride was an American professional soccer club based in the San Francisco Bay Area, which participated in Women's Professional Soccer. The club replaced the San Jose CyberRays of the defunct Women's United Soccer Association as the top-l ...

(July 12)) *Fastest Hat-Trick: 35 minutes ** Cristiane for

against

: 31' 46+' 65' (July 12) *First Own Goal:

Ifeoma Dieke Ifeoma Nnenna Dieke (born 25 February 1981) is an American-born Scottish Association football, football Defender (association football), defender, currently playing for Apollon Ladies F.C. of the Cypriot First Division (women), Cypriot First Div ...

for

(23 May) *Average Goals per match: 2.086

Discipline

*First Yellow Card:

Nikki Krzysik Nicole Marie Phillips (; born 23 May 1987) is an American-born Polish professional footballer who plays as a defender and a midfielder. She has been a member of the Poland women's national team. She previously played for the Chicago Red Stars ...

for

against

, 90th minute (April 4) *First Red Card:

Frida Östberg Frida Christina Östberg (born 10 December 1977) is a Swedish retired football midfielder who played for Umeå IK, Linköpings FC and Chicago Red Stars of Women's Professional Soccer. She is a former member of the Sweden women's national football ...

for

against

, 63rd minute (April 11) *Most Yellow Cards: 4 **

Chioma Igwe Chioma Nisa Igwe (born July 21, 1986) is an American former soccer midfielder. The San Mateo, California native is a former member of the United States U-20 women's national soccer team. From the 2011/12 until 2014/15 she played in the Germa ...

(

) **

Kia McNeill Kia Janeen McNeill (born May 15, 1986) is an American retired professional soccer defender who most recently played for the Boston Breakers in the NWSL. She previously played for the Saint Louis Athletica, Philadelphia Independence, and the At ...

(

) *Most Yellow Cards in a Match: 4 **

2–0

– 3 for Boston ( Kasey Moore, Alex Scott, &

Stacy Bishop Stacy Leigh Bishop (born May 1, 1985) is an American former college and professional soccer midfielder who last played for Atlanta Beat of Women's Professional Soccer. Early years Bishop was born in Katy, Texas. She grew up in Land o' Lakes ...

) and 1 for St. Louis (

Melissa Tancredi Melissa Palma Julie Tancredi (born December 27, 1981) is a Canadian retired soccer forward who played for the Canada women's national soccer team. 3 time Olympian, 2 time Bronze Medalist. She won an Olympic bronze medal as a participating mem ...

) (April 11) **

0–0

– 2 for St. Louis (

& Daniela) and 2 for Los Angeles (

Aya Miyama is a Japanese former footballer who played for the Japan national team starting in 2003, and from 2012 to 2016 served as captain of the team. She appeared in four World Cups between 2003 and 2015, including the team that won the 2011 World C ...

Shannon Boxx Shannon Leigh Boxx Spearman (; born June 29, 1977) is an American retired soccer player and former member of the United States women's national soccer team, playing the defensive midfielder position. She last played club soccer for the Chicago Re ...

) (April 25) **

0–0

– 2 for Los Angeles (

Camille Abily Camille Anne Françoise Abily (born 5 December 1984) is a French football manager and former player, best known as a star midfielder for both the French women's national team and for the Lyon club in the Division 1 Féminine. She currently is t ...

) and 2 for Boston (

Angela Hucles Angela Khalia Hucles Mangano (; born July 5, 1978) is an American sports executive and former professional soccer player. Hucles Mangano is currently the vice president of player development and operations at Angel City FC of the National Women's ...

Nancy Augustyniak Nancy Jean Augustyniak Goffi (; born February 1, 1979) is an American former professional association football, soccer player who featured primarily as a Defender (association football), defender. Early life Augustyniak Goffi went to Clemson ...

) **

0–0

– 2 for Washington ( Abby Wambach &

Sonia Bompastor Sonia Bompastor (born 8 June 1980) is a French football manager and former player who currently manages Lyon of the French Division 1 Féminine. She is the first person to win the UEFA Women's Champions League as both a player and a manager. Bo ...

) and 2 for Chicago (

Brittany Klein Brittany Michelle Klein (born October 29, 1986) is an American soccer midfielder. Klein is a former member of the United States women's national under-23 soccer team and a WPS All-Star in 2009. Playing career Youth Club Klein played for Lag ...

Megan Rapinoe Megan Anna Rapinoe (; born July 5, 1985) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a winger and captains OL Reign of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), as well as the United States national team. Winner of the Ballon d ...

) (June 13) **

3–1

– 3 for Chicago (

Lindsay Tarpley Lindsay Ann Tarpley Snow (; born September 22, 1983) is an American professional soccer Striker (association football), forward and midfielder. She is a two-time Football at the Summer Olympics, Olympic gold medalist, winning gold at the 2004 Su ...

Karen Carney Karen Julia Carney (born 1 August 1987) is an English sports journalist and former professional footballer who played as a winger and midfielder. Carney has been a regular broadcaster for live football on Sky Sports and Amazon Prime, includi ...

, &

Carli Lloyd Carli Anne Hollins (; born July 16, 1982) is an American former professional soccer player. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist (2008 and 2012), two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion (2015 and 2019), two-time FIFA Player of the Year ...

) and 1 for Bay Area ( Formiga) (July 12)

Streaks

*Longest Winning Streak: 4 Games **

Games 13–16 *Longest Unbeaten Streak: 11 games **Los Angeles Sol Games 6–16 *Longest Winless Streak: 10 games **

Games 8–17 *Longest Losing Streak: 4 Games **FC Gold Pride Games 12–15 *Longest Shutout: 361 minutes by

Karina LeBlanc Karina Chenelle LeBlanc (born March 30, 1980) is an American-born Canadian former professional soccer goalkeeper and current general manager of the Portland Thorns FC. She played for the Canadian national team and multiple professional women's ...

for

*Longest Drought: 451 minutes for

Other Firsts

*First player to score twice in a match: Marta for

against

(April 5) *First come-from-behind victory:

2–1

(July 1) *First team to lose to all opponents:

with loss to

on July 26 **The only other team to accomplish this was

with loss to

on August 5 *First team to beat all opponents:

with win against

on August 9 **The only other team to accomplish this was

with win against

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*First goalkeeper assist:

Hope Solo Hope Amelia Stevens (; born July 30, 1981) is an American former soccer goalkeeper. She was a goalkeeper for the United States women's national soccer team from 2000 to 2016, and is a World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist. Aft ...

(to

Christie Welsh Christie Renee Welsh (born February 27, 1981) is an American former soccer player who played as a forward. She previously played for the New York Power of Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) as well as the Los Angeles Sol, Saint Louis Ath ...

) for

against

on August 9

Home Team Record

(Regular season only) * 33 wins, 20 losses, 17 ties – 1.657 PPG * 87 goals for, 59 goals against – +28 GD

Related Competitions

All-Star Game

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was played on August 30 at Soccer Park in the

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suburb of

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, with the WPS All-Stars defeating Swedish powerhouse

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4–2. The match was televised in the US on

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References

External links

Official Site
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Competition format

Results table

Standings

Attendance

Average home attendances

Playoffs

Leaders

Offense

Fouls

Goalkeeping

Awards

Player of the Week

Player of the Month

Statistics

Scoring

Discipline

Streaks

Other Firsts

Home Team Record

Related Competitions

All-Star Game

See also

References

External links