The 2024

NWSL Draft The NWSL Draft is an annual event which takes place in January of each year where the teams of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) select players who are in their senior season in college or have exhausted their collegiate eligibility. Prior ...

presented by

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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 remaining collegiate eligibility, as well as select players that the NWSL had already signed in advance. Expansion sides Utah Royals and

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 ...

currently hold the first and second overall picks respectively.

Format

* All 14 teams of the

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(NWSL) take turns making their selections over four rounds, with 14 picks per round. Draft order in each round was determined by the reverse order of the final 2023 regular season standings, with the exceptions being Utah Royals and

taking the first two selections as expansion teams and the two teams that contested the 2023 Championship game,

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and

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, taking the last two selections. * Gaining the first choice in the asset selection process through a random generator, Utah Royals selected priority in the NWSL Draft. As a result, Utah received pick No. 1 in both the first and third rounds of the draft, while Bay will select first in rounds two and four. By virtue, Bay were given the first pick in the 2024 NWSL Expansion Draft.

Results

Key

Picks

Trades

Round 1: Round 2: Round 3: Round 4:

Future draft trades

2025 NWSL Draft trades * Round 3 (conditional), Racing Louisville FC → Washington Spirit.

Washington Spirit The Washington Spirit is an American professional soccer club based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area that participates in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). It is a continuation of the D.C. United Women of the W-League and cont ...

acquired the natural second-round pick in the 2024 NWSL Draft, and a conditional third-round draft pick in the 2025 NWSL Draft if she reaches 10 appearances in 2024, from

Racing Louisville FC Racing Louisville Football Club is a National Women's Soccer League team based in Louisville, Kentucky. It began playing in 2021 at Lynn Family Stadium. The team is owned by Soccer Holdings LLC, which also owns Louisville City FC of the USL Cham ...

in exchange for Jordan Baggett.

References

External links

* {{NWSL drafts National Women's Soccer League drafts 2024 in American women's soccer