The USL W-League was a North American
amateur
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women's soccer developmental organization. The league was a
semi-professional
Semi-professional sports are sports in which athletes are not participating on a full-time basis, but still receive some payment. Semi-professionals are not amateur because they receive regular payment from their team, but generally at a cons ...
, open league, giving college players the opportunity to play alongside established international players while maintaining their collegiate eligibility. The league was administered by the
United Soccer Leagues
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Places
* United, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
* United, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Arts and entertainment Films
* ''United'' (2003 film), a Norwegian film
* ''United'' (2011 film), a BBC Two f ...
system (the USL), which also oversees the men's
United Soccer League
The United Soccer League (USL) is an organizer of various professional and amateur soccer leagues in the United States league system. It currently organizes its Championship, League One, and League Two for men, its Super League and W Leag ...
and
Premier Development League
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. The W-League announced on November 6, 2015 that the league will cease operation ahead of 2016 season.
After the popularity of the
2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
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, though, USL began considerations for a new professional women's league; this effort eventually returned to the re-establishing of the league as the
USL W League
The USL W League (USLW) is a Women's association football, women's soccer league in the United States. It began play in May 2022 and follows the USL W-League (1995–2015), USL W-League, a similar league that existed from 1995 to 2015. It is c ...
.
History
The W-League's inaugural season was in 1995. Originally called the United States Interregional Women's League, it later changed its name to the W-League. Although at its inception some of the league's franchises were barely above amateur level, it provided a professional outlet for many of the top female soccer players in the country. With professionals driving the level of play, the league made a very strong debut performance.
From 1995 through the 1997 season the W-League was a single tier format (all teams at the same division). This changed before the 1998 season when the W-League became a two tier league. The top tier/division was called W-1 and lower division, W-2. This division was in effect through the 2001 season – the first year of the new US Women's first division league
WUSA. The W-League returned to a single tier format in the 2002 season.
The W-League grew to a maximum of 41 teams for the 2008 season, but then began contracting rapidly. By the time the league suspended operations in 2015, there were three, six-team conferences. Of those 18 teams, eight went on to found
United Women's Soccer
United Women's Soccer (UWS) is a national pro-am Women's association football, women's Association football, soccer league in the United States. The league was founded in 2015 as a response to the dual problems of disorganization in the Women's ...
(though the two Canadian teams were denied entry) and another seven joined the
WPSL.
The revival of the W-League as the
USL W League
The USL W League (USLW) is a Women's association football, women's soccer league in the United States. It began play in May 2022 and follows the USL W-League (1995–2015), USL W-League, a similar league that existed from 1995 to 2015. It is c ...
was announced on June 8, 2021, with eight founding teams due to begin play in 2022, none of which were revivals of teams from the original iteration of the W-League. Instead, many were associate with
USL League One
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organizations.
Teams
127 unique teams participated in the W-League over the course of its history. Fifteen still existed (at varying levels of activity) as of 2019.
Norcal Shockwaves
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bar:23 color:Member from:1996 till:1998 text: Silicon Valley Red * Devils
bar:23 color:WPSL from:1998 till:2001
bar:24 color:Member from:1996 till:1999 text: Alabama Angels
bar:25 color:Member from:1996 till:1999 text: Buffalo FFillies
bar:26 color:Member from:1996 till:2001 text: Denver Diamonds
bar:26 color:WPSL from:2002 till:2009
bar:26 color:inactive from:2001 till:2002
bar:26 color:inactive from:2005 till:2006
bar:27 color:Member from:1996 till:2002 text: Cleveland Eclipse
bar:28 color:Member from:1996 till:2011 text: Chicago Cobras
bar:28 color:Member from:2000 till:2001 text: *
bar:28 color:MemberN from:2005 till:2009 text:(Chicago Gaels)
bar:28 color:Member from:2009 till:2011 text:(Chicago Red Eleven)
bar:29 color:Member from:1996 till:2013 text: Rochester Ravens
bar:30 color:Member from:1996 till:2016 text: New Jersey Wildcats
bar:30 color:Member from:2005 till:2006 text: *
bar:30 color:WPSL from:2016 till:2021
bar:31 color:Member from:1997 till:1998 text: Gulf Coast Chaos
bar:32 color:Member from:1997 till:2000 text: Central Jersey Splash
bar:33 color:MemberN from:1997 till:1998 text: Charlotte Speed
bar:33 color:Member from:1998 till:2000
bar:34 color:MemberN from:1997 till:1998 text:Jackson Chargers
The Jackson Chargers were an American soccer team based in Jackson, Mississippi that played in the PDL (formerly the ''USISL Premier League'') from 1995 to 1999. The team had very successful consecutive seasons in 1998 and 1999, becoming regul ...
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bar:35 color:Member from:1997 till:2001 text: Atlanta Classics
bar:36 color:Member from:1997 till:2001 text: Delaware Genies
bar:37 color:Member from:1997 till:2002 text:Indiana Blaze
bar:38 color:Member from:1997 till:2002 text: Laval Dynamites
bar:39 color:Member from:1997 till:2003 text: Tampa Bay Xtreme
bar:40 color:Member from:1998 till:1999 text: Finger Lakes Heartbreakers
bar:41 color:Member from:1998 till:1999 text: Orlando Ladyhawks
bar:42 color:Member from:1998 till:2000 text: Kalamazoo Quest
bar:43 color:Member from:1998 till:2000 text: Miami Gliders
bar:44 color:Member from:1998 till:2001 text: * Raleigh * Wings
bar:45 color:Member from:1998 till:2005 text: New Jersey Lady Stallions
bar:46 color:Member from:1998 till:2007 text: New Hampshire Lady Phantoms
bar:47 color:Member from:1998 till:2016 text: New York Magic
bar:47 color:UWS from:2016 till:2018
bar:48 color:Member from:1999 till:2001 text: Austin Lady Lone Stars
bar:49 color:Member from:1999 till:2001 text: North Texas Heat
bar:50 color:Member from:1999 till:2002 text: Houston Tornadoes
bar:51 color:Member from:1999 till:2002 text: Springfield Sirens
bar:51 color:WPSL from:2002 till:2016 text:( New England Mutiny)
bar:51 color:UWS from:2016 till:2021
bar:52 color:Member from:1999 till:2003 text: Jacksonville Jade
bar:53 color:Member from:1999 till:2005 text: Toronto Inferno
bar:54 color:Member from:1999 till:2007 text: Piedmont Spark
bar:54 color:MemberN from:2002 till:2004 text:(Greensboro Twisters, Carolina Dynamo)
bar:54 color:inactive from:2007 till:2016
bar:54 color:Member from:2008 till:2009
bar:54 color:WPSL from:2016 till:2021
bar:55 color:Member from:1999 till:2013 text: Northern Virginia Majestics
bar:56 color:Member from:2000 till:2001 text: New Brunswick Power
bar:57 color:Member from:2000 till:2003 text: Kentucky Fillies
bar:58 color:Member from:2000 till:2003 text: Oklahoma Outrage
bar:59 color:Member from:2000 till:2007 text: Cincinnati Ladyhawks
bar:60 color:Member from:2000 till:2011
bar:60 color:MemberN from:2000 till:2001 text:C. Gold
bar:60 color:MemberN from:2001 till:2005 text:Den. Lady Cougars
bar:60 color:Member from:2005 till:2010 text: Real Colorado Cougars
bar:61 color:Member from:2000 till:2015 text:Ottawa Fury FC
Ottawa Fury Football Club was a Canadian professional soccer club based in Ottawa, Ontario. The club competed in the North American Soccer League and USL Championship and played its home games at TD Place Stadium.
The Ottawa Fury FC were di ...
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bar:62 color:Member from:2000 till:2016 text: Charlotte Lady Eagles
bar:62 color:inactive from:2016 till:2019
bar:62 color:WPSL from:2019 till:2021
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bar:62 color:Member from:2001 till:2002 text: Texas Odyssey
bar:63 color:inactive from:2000 till:2010
bar:63 color:Member from:2001 till:2002 text: Portland Rain
bar:63 color:WPSL from:2010 till:2013
bar:64 color:Member from:2001 till:2003 text: Kansas City Mystics
bar:65 color:Member from:2001 till:2003 text: Memphis Mercury
bar:66 color:Member from:2001 till:2005 text: Windy City Bluez
bar:67 color:Member from:2001 till:2007 text: South Jersey Banshees
bar:68 color:Member from:2001 till:2005 text: Mile High Edge
bar:68 color:MemberN from:2005 till:2008 text:(Mile High Mustangs)
bar:69 color:Member from:2002 till:2003 text: Albuquerque Crush
bar:70 color:Member from:2002 till:2004 text:Northern Kentucky TC Stars
bar:71 color:Member from:2002 till:2005 text: Asheville Splash
bar:72 color:Member from:2002 till:2016 text: Seattle Sounders Women
bar:72 color:WPSL from:2016 till:2021
bar:73 color:Member from:2003 till:2005 text: Columbus Lady Shooting Stars
bar:74 color:Member from:2003 till:2013 text: Vancouver * Whitecaps Women *
bar:75 color:Member from:2004 till:2005 text: Calgary Wildfire
bar:76 color:Member from:2004 till:2005 text: Edmonton Aviators Women
bar:77 color:Member from:2004 till:2005 text: Montreal Xtreme
bar:78 color:Member from:2004 till:2005 text: St. Louis Archers
bar:78 color:WPSL from:2005 till:2008
bar:78 color:WPSL from:2006 till:2008 text:(River Cities FC)
bar:79 color:Member from:2004 till:2007 text: Sudbury Canadians
bar:80 color:Member from:2004 till:2009 text: Bradenton Athletics
bar:81 color:Member from:2006 till:2009 text: Michigan Hawks
bar:81 color:MemberN from:2004 till:2006 text:(Detroit Jaguars)
bar:82 color:Member from:2004 till:2010 text: Fort Wayne Fever
bar:82 color:inactive from:2013 till:2017 text: Fort Wayne United
bar:82 color:UWS from:2017 till:2021
bar:83 color:Member from:2004 till:2010 text: Richmond Kickers Destiny
bar:84 color:Member from:2004 till:2010 text: Western Mass Lady Pioneers
bar:85 color:Member from:2004 till:2011 text: Cleveland Internationals Women
bar:85 color:WLS from:2011 till:2013
bar:86 color:Member from:2004 till:2015 text: London Gryphons
bar:87 color:Member from:2005 till:2007 text: Central Florida Krush
bar:88 color:Member from:2005 till:2007 text: San Diego Gauchos Women
bar:88 color:MemberN from:2007 till:2008
bar:89 color:Member from:2005 till:2009 text: Vermont Lady Voltage
bar:90 color:Member from:2005 till:2015 text: Toronto Lady Lynx
bar:91 color:Member from:2005 till:2016 text: Atlanta Silverbacks Women
bar:91 color:Member from:2011 till:2012 text: *
bar:91 color:WPSL from:2016 till:2018
bar:92 color:Member from:2006 till:2008 text: Cocoa Expos Women
bar:92 color:WPSL from:2008 till:2009
bar:93 color:Pro from:2001 till:2004
bar:93 color:Pro from:2003 till:2004 text: *
bar:93 color:inactive from:2004 till:2006
bar:93 color:Member from:2006 till:2009 text: Washington * Freedom
bar:93 color:Pro from:2009 till:2011
bar:93 color:Pro from:2011 till:2012 text:(magicJack)
bar:94 color:MemberN from:2009 till:2010 text: Washington Freedom Futures
bar:94 color:Member from:2010 till:2011
bar:95 color:Member from:2006 till:2010 text: Minnesota Lightning
bar:96 color:Member from:2006 till:2011 text: Hamilton Avalanche
bar:96 color:MemberN from:2011 till:2013 text:(Hamilton FC Rage, K-W United FC)
bar:96 color:Member from:2013 till:2015
bar:97 color:Member from:2006 till:2016 text: Laval Comets
bar:97 color:inactive from:2016 till:2018
bar:98 color:Member from:2007 till:2009 text: Fredericksburg Lady Gunners
bar:99 color:MemberN from:2007 till:2009 text: Hudson Valley Quickstrike Lady Blues
bar:99 color:Member from:2009 till:2011
bar:100 color:Member from:2008 till:2009 text: West Virginia Illusion
bar:101 color:MemberN from:2008 till:2009 text: Cary Lady Clarets
bar:101 color:Member from:2009 till:2010
bar:102 color:Member from:2008 till:2010 text: Connecticut Passion
bar:103 color:WPSL from:2005 till:2008 text: *
bar:103 color:WPSL from:2007 till:2008 text: *
bar:103 color:Member from:2008 till:2010 text: FC Indiana
bar:103 color:inactive from:2010 till:2011
bar:103 color:WLS from:2011 till:2013 text: *(also WPSL)*
bar:103 color:inactive from:2013 till:2014
bar:103 color:WPSL from:2014 till:2017
bar:103 color:UWS from:2017 till:2018
bar:104 color:Member from:2008 till:2010 text: Los Angeles Legends
bar:105 color:Member from:2008 till:2011 text: Kalamazoo Outrage
bar:106 color:Member from:2008 till:2011 text: Tampa Bay Hellenic
bar:106 color:WPSL from:2011 till:2018
bar:106 color:MemberN from:2013 till:2014 text:†
bar:107 color:Member from:2008 till:2013 text: New Jersey Rangers
bar:108 color:Member from:2008 till:2014 text: * Pali Blues *
bar:108 color:Member from:2013 till:2014 text: *
bar:108 color:MemberN from:2014 till:2015 text: * (Los Angeles Blues, SoCal FC)
bar:108 color:WPSL from:2015 till:2019
bar:109 color:Member from:2009 till:2011 text: Buffalo Flash *
bar:109 color:Pro from:2011 till:2017 text: * (Western * New York Flash)
bar:109 color:WPSL from:2012 till:2013
bar:109 color:UWS from:2017 till:2019
bar:110 color:Member from:2009 till:2014 text: Quebec City Amiral SC
bar:110 color:MemberN from:2014 till:2016 text:(Quebec Dynamo ARSQ)
bar:110 color:inactive from:2016 till:2018
bar:111 color:Member from:2010 till:2016 text: Colorado Rush
bar:112 color:Member from:2010 till:2016 text: North Jersey Valkyries
bar:112 color:UWS from:2016 till:2017
bar:113 color:Member from:2010 till:2016 text:Santa Clarita Blue Heat
Santa Clarita Blue Heat is an American women's soccer team based in Santa Clarita, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Founded in 2010, the club was known as the Ventura County Fusion for its first two years of existence.
The team plays its ho ...
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bar:114 color:Member from:2011 till:2013 text: D.C. United Women
bar:114 color:Pro from:2013 till:2021 text: (Washington Spirit
The Washington Spirit are an American professional Association football, soccer team based in Washington, D.C. that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). It is a continuation of the D.C. United Women of the USL W-League (1995� ...
)
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bar:115 color:inactive from:2019 till:2021
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bar:117 color:Member from:2011 till:2014 text: Fredericksburg Impact
bar:118 color:Member from:2011 till:2014 text: Los Angeles Strikers
bar:118 color:MemberN from:2014 till:2015 text:†
bar:119 color:Member from:2011 till:2016 text: Dayton Dutch Lions WFC
bar:119 color:WPSL from:2016 till:2021
bar:120 color:Member from:2012 till:2016 text: Carolina Elite Cobras
bar:120 color:WPSL from:2016 till:2017
bar:121 color:Member from:2013 till:2014 text: VSI Tampa Bay FC
bar:122 color:WPSL from:2011 till:2013
bar:122 color:Member from:2013 till:2015 text: Bay Area Breeze
bar:123 color:WPSL from:2011 till:2021
bar:123 color:Member from:2014 till:2015 text: Gulf Coast Texans (Pensacola FC)
bar:123 color:inactive from:2015 till:2016
bar:124 color:Member from:2014 till:2016 text: Arizona Strikers FC
bar:125 color:Member from:2014 till:2016 text: Braddock Road Stars Elite
bar:125 color:WPSL from:2016 till:2018
bar:126 color:Member from:2014 till:2016 text: Colorado Pride
bar:126 color:UWS from:2016 till:2021
bar:126 color:inactive from:2017 till:2018
bar:127 color:Member from:2014 till:2016 text: Colorado Storm
bar:127 color:UWS from:2016 till:2017
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(*) indicates championship
Past champions
For 1998 through 2001 the W-League was divided into two divisions: W-1 (the top division) W-2 (the lower division). The numbers in parentheses indicate the number of titles a club has won if they have won multiple titles. Click on year for W-League season summaries.
*
2015
2015 was designated by the United Nations as:
* International Year of Light
* International Year of Soil __TOC__
Events
January
* January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...
Washington Spirit Reserves 2–1
Colorado Pride
*
2014
The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
Los Angeles Blues ''(4)'' 6–1
Washington Spirit Reserves
*
2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
Pali Blues ''(3)'' 1–0
Laval Comets
*
2012
2012 was designated as:
*International Year of Cooperatives
*International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
Events January
*January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins.
* January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...
Ottawa Fury Women 1–1 (4–3
PSO)
Pali Blues
*
2011
The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...
Atlanta Silverbacks Women 6–1
Ottawa Fury Women
*
2010
The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
Buffalo Flash 3–1
Vancouver Whitecaps Women
*
2009
2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...
Pali Blues ''(2)'' 2–1
Washington Freedom Reserves
*
2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
Pali Blues 2–1
FC Indiana
*
2007
2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.
Events
January
* January 1
**Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...
Washington Freedom 3–1
Atlanta Silverbacks Women
*
2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
Vancouver Whitecaps Women ''(2)'' 3–0
Ottawa Fury Women
*
2005
2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...
New Jersey Wildcats 3–0
Ottawa Fury Women
*
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...
Vancouver Whitecaps Women 0–0 (4–2
PSO)
New Jersey Wildcats
*
2003
2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater.
In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
Hampton Roads Piranhas 1–0
Chicago Cobras
*2002
Boston Renegades ''(2)'' 3–0
Charlotte Lady Eagles
*2001
** W-1:
Boston Renegades 5–1
Vancouver Whitecaps Women
** W-2:
Charlotte Lady Eagles 3–1
Memphis Mercury
*2000
** W-1:
Chicago Cobras 1–1 (4–2
PSO)
Raleigh Wings
** W-2:
Springfield Sirens 2–1
Charlotte Lady Eagles
*1999
** W-1:
Raleigh Wings ''(2)'' 3 -2
Chicago Cobras (OT)
** W-2:
North Texas Heat 5–1
Springfield Sirens
*1998
** W-1:
Raleigh Wings 4–3
Boston Renegades
** W-2:
Fort Collins Force 3–1
Hampton Roads Piranhas
*1997
Long Island Lady Riders ''(2)'' 2–1
Chicago Cobras (OT)
*1996
Maryland Pride 3–0
Dallas Lightning
*
1995
1995 was designated as:
* United Nations Year for Tolerance
* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...
Long Island Lady Riders 3–0
Southern California Nitemares
References
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