The Nashville Dream was a women's professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They were one of the founding teams of the

National Women's Football Association The National Women's Football Association (NWFA) was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades ...

. The team was active from 2000 to 2007 and last played at the

Glencliff High School Glencliff High School is an American public high school in Nashville, Tennessee. It was built in 1957 and added onto in 1977. History According to the 1963 ''Roundup'' (school yearbook), the area in which Glencliff High School is located was unti ...

football field.

History

The Nashville Dream was established by Catherine Masters in 2000 as one of the two founding teams of the

. The first season consisted of six exhibition games between the Nashville Dream and the

Alabama Renegades The Huntsville Tigers is a women's American football team located in Huntsville, Alabama. The Tigers played their first season of full-contact football in the spring of 2012. This was the Tigers' first season as a new team. The team consists of fo ...

, with each team winning three games. Masters sold the team in 2001 to team quarterback Christie Trost. After a disappointing 2001 season, the team qualified for the league playoffs every year until 2006, although they never made it to a championship game. Despite their successful record, the franchise was plagued by low attendance and financial insolvency. In December 2005, Head Coach Ben Eakin bought the team from Trost and attempted to resuscitate attendance levels by lowering ticket prices and increasing marketing efforts. The franchise folded two years later.

Season-by-season results

{, class="wikitable" !Year !Division !Reg. Season !Playoffs , - , 2007 , Southern - Central , 2–6–0 , ''Did not qualify'' , - , 2006 , South Central , 0–8–0 , ''Did not qualify'' , - , 2005NWFA 2005 Season Standings & Statistics
(archived) , Southern , 8–0–0 , 0–1–0 , - , 2004NWFA Regular Season Statistics
(archived)National Women's Football Association: Nashville Dream
(archived) , Southern , 7–1–0 , 0–1–0 , - , 2003 , Southern , 5–3–0 , 0–1–0 , - , 2002 , Southern , 7–1–0 , 0–1–0 , - , 2001 , Southern , 2–7–0 , ''Did not qualify''

References

National Women's Football Association teams American football teams in Nashville, Tennessee American football teams established in 2000 American football teams disestablished in 2007 2000 establishments in Tennessee 2007 disestablishments in Tennessee Women's sports in Tennessee