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Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was an American professional women's soccer league that operated as the top division of women's soccer in the United States. The league was formed in 2008 and dissolved in 2012. Below are notable records and statistics for WPS teams, players, and seasons, all as of the end of the league's final season in 2011.
WPS champions and runners-up
editSeason | Playoff winner | Result | Playoff runner-up | Regular season winner |
Points | Regular season runner-up |
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2009 | Sky Blue FC | 1–0 Home Depot Center |
Los Angeles Sol | Los Angeles Sol | 41–34 | Saint Louis Athletica |
2010 | FC Gold Pride | 4–0 Pioneer Stadium |
Philadelphia Independence | FC Gold Pride | 53-36 | Boston Breakers |
2011 | Western New York Flash | 1–1 (a.e.t.) 5–4 (pen.) Sahlen's Stadium |
Philadelphia Independence | Western New York Flash | 42–36 | Philadelphia Independence |
Career leaders
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All-time table
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Club | Seasons | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Finishing position | |||
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Boston Breakers | 3 (2009–2011) | 62 | 22 | 26 | 14 | 73 | 72 | +1 | 80 | 1.290 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Sky Blue FC | 3 (2009–2011) | 62 | 19 | 27 | 16 | 63 | 80 | –17 | 73 | 1.177 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
FC Gold Pride | 2 (2009–2010) | 44 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 63 | 47 | +16 | 71 | 1.614 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Philadelphia Independence | 2 (2010–2011) | 42 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 68 | 54 | +14 | 70 | 1.667 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Washington Freedom | 2 (2009–2010) | 44 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 65 | 65 | 0 | 60 | 1.354 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Chicago Red Stars | 2 (2009–2010) | 44 | 12 | 21 | 11 | 36 | 52 | –13 | 47 | 1.068 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Louis Athletica | 2 (2009–2010) | 26 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 28 | 23 | +5 | 43 | 1.654 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Western New York Flash | 1 (2011) | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 40 | 18 | +22 | 42 | 2.333 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Los Angeles Sol | 1 (2009) | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 10 | +17 | 41 | 2.050 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
magicJack | 1 (2011) | 18 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 28[a] | 1.556 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Atlanta Beat | 2 (2010–2011) | 42 | 6 | 26 | 10 | 27 | 72 | –45 | 28 | 0.667 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
- ^ Includes point deductions.
Club | Seas. | Apps. | App% | GP | W | L | T | SOW | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG |
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Philadelphia Independence | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 2.00 |
Sky Blue FC | 1 | 3 | 33.33% | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 9 | 3.00 |
magicJack | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1.50 |
FC Gold Pride | 1 | 2 | 50.00% | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | 3 | 3.00 |
Western New York Flash | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1.00 |
Washington Freedom | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | –2 | 0 | 0.00 |
Los Angeles Sol | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | –1 | 0 | 0.00 |
Saint Louis Athletica | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | –1 | 0 | 0.00 |
Boston Breakers | 2 | 3 | 66.66% | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | –3 | 0 | 0.00 |
Sort order: Points, appearance percentage, total seasons played, finishing position.
Average season attendances
editSeason | League average |
Highest | Lowest | ||
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Club | Average | Club | Average | ||
2009 | 4,709 | Los Angeles Sol | 6,382 | Sky Blue FC | 3,651 |
2010 | 3,606 | Chicago Red Stars | 4,350 | Philadelphia Independence | 2,922 |
2011 | 3,654 | Western New York Flash | 5,438 | magicJack | 2,127 |
Criteria: Includes regular-season, playoff, and All-Star games, but does not include friendlies.
Records
edit- Longest winning streak to start a season: 3 wins
- Los Angeles Sol (2009)
- magicJack (2011)
- Longest winning streak to end a season: 5, Western New York Flash (2011)
- Longest unbeaten streak to start a season: 8, Western New York Flash (2011; 7W, 1T)
- Longest unbeaten streak to end a season: 13, FC Gold Pride (2010; 9W, 4T)
Trivia
edit- No team played in every playoff series.
- If magicJack is considered to be the continuation of the Washington Freedom, that team qualified for every playoff series.
- Two core groups of players have played together in all three seasons and qualified for the playoffs:
- Freedom-magicJack, centered on Abby Wambach
- Sol-Gold Pride-Flash, centered on Marta
- The team to win the regular season in each of the league's first two seasons, which were also the league's attendance leaders, folded during the following offseason.
See also
editReferences
edit- General
- "2010 WPS Schedule". Women's Professional Soccer. Archived from the original on June 25, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
- "2009 WPS Schedule". Women's Professional Soccer. Archived from the original on October 29, 2009. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
- "2011 WPS Schedule". Women's Professional Soccer. Archived from the original on January 4, 2012. Retrieved June 21, 2023.
- "Women's Professional Soccer Team Rosters and Statistics". Stats Crew. Retrieved June 21, 2023.