Denver has been awarded an NWSL franchise, in keeping with a on Thursday.
A gaggle led by IMA Monetary Group CEO Robert Cohen can pay a report enlargement charge of $110 million to turn into the NWSL’s sixteenth franchise. That whole is greater than double the $53 million paid by and once they had been awarded entry, and is reportedly the biggest enlargement charge ever paid for a U.S. girls’s sports activities workforce.
The Denver franchise is not going to start play till the 2026 season.
Bay FC and the Utah Royals performed their inaugural seasons in 2024. Boston would be the NWSL’s subsequent workforce to enter, starting with the 2025 season, and is presently “revisiting” its workforce title after the .
Denver was certainly one of three cities that had been within the operating for an enlargement franchise together with Cincinnati, the place Caitlin Clark was a part of the possession bid, and , the place a improvement group lately purchased land supposed for a girls’s soccer stadium.
The Denver franchise will start play in a short lived venue whereas it finalizes plans for its personal soccer-specific stadium.
