2026 NWSL Previews: Portland Thorns, KC Current

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Our 2026 NWSL Season Previews have started and today we hit Portland and KC.. If you want to support this coverage of the league, you can head to our Patreon. For $5 a month you can get access to a lot of the data visualization tools we use to make these previews.

If you’re more of an audio person, our friends at Expected Own Goals spoke to Phuoc Nguyen from Stumptown Footy to talk Portland, and Cindy Lara from the KC Sports Journal on the Current, available wherever you get your pods. If you want to support them, you can head to their Patreon.

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2025 NWSL Previews: NJ/NY Gotham FC and KC Current

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2025 NWSL Previews: NJ/NY Gotham FC and KC Current

Hello and welcome to our 2025 NWSL previews. We’ve got some new writers, some old writers, but lots of exciting analytical insights coming at you ahead of a very exciting 2025 season. You can read all of them here!

If you want some extended audio preview content, check out the xOwn Goals Podcast (available wherever you get your pods).

And if you want to support the best women’s stats content on the internet, consider checking out the ASA Patreon. There’s a patron discord, and all sorts of cool tools you can use to analyze the soccer.

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The Expected Own Goals NWSL Awards Ballot

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The Expected Own Goals NWSL Awards Ballot

Hi. Evan from Expected Own Goals here. The NWSL regular season becomes past tense after this weekend, and with most players’ seasons more or less fully formed, we thought it was the perfect time to lay down our marker for the annual player awards.

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