2026 NWSL Previews: Seattle Reign, Orlando Pride

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Our 2026 NWSL Season Previews have started and today we hit Seattle and Orlando. 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 Kari Anderson from Yahoo about the Reign, and Abigail Segel from The XI and Defector about Orlando, 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: Washington Spirit and Orlando Pride

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2025 NWSL Previews: Washington Spirit and Orlando Pride

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! We got a preview of this exact match up already, with the Spirit defeating Orlando in a penalty shootout in the Challenge Cup Final.

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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2022 NWSL Season Previews: Orlando Pride, Houston Dash, and Angel City FC

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2022 NWSL Season Previews: Orlando Pride, Houston Dash, and Angel City FC

The 2022 NWSL season is nearly upon us! We’ll be publishing three team previews every weekday until the NWSL regular season opens on Friday, April 29, 2022. Previews will be released in reverse order of how each team finished in the 2022 Challenge Cup’s group stage.

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NWSL Mini-Previews: Washington SpiriT and Houston Dash

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NWSL Mini-Previews: Washington SpiriT and Houston Dash

The time has come. This weekend, the NWSL will return as the first professional sports league in the United States to take the field since the COVID-19 pandemic began. After writing previews since before the Challenge Cup was even announced (here are parts one and two), we’re excited to share our final set on the last three teams in the league.

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