2015 National Women's Soccer League season

The 2015 National Women's Soccer League season was the third season of the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. Including the NWSL's two professional predecessors, Women's Professional Soccer (2009–2011) and the Women's United Soccer Association (2001–2003), it was the ninth overall season of FIFA and USSF-sanctioned top division women's soccer in the United States. The league is operated by the United States Soccer Federation and receives major financial backing from that body. Further financial backing is expected to be provided by the Canadian Soccer Association and the Mexican Football Federation. All three national federations pay the league salaries of many of their respective national team members in an effort to nurture talent in those nations.

In January, Jeff Plush was named NWSL commissioner,^[2] replacing Cheryl Bailey.

To accommodate the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup the league announced it would reduce the season to 20 games while extending the calendar length into September and take a two-week break from June 7–19.^[3]

For the second straight season, FC Kansas City defeated the Shield winners Seattle Reign FC 1–0 to win the NWSL title on October 1.^[4]

Teams, stadiums, and personnel

Stadiums and locations

Two teams, the Dash and Reign, do not make their stadiums' entire capacity available for home games, instead restricting ticket sales at a lower level. The full capacities of their venues are included in parentheses and italics.

Team Stadium Capacity Boston Breakers Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium 4,500 Chicago Red Stars Village Sports Complex 3,600 Houston Dash BBVA Compass Stadium 7,000 (22,039) FC Kansas City Swope Soccer Village[5] 4,000 Portland Thorns Providence Park 20,438 Seattle Reign FC Memorial Stadium 6,000 (12,000) Sky Blue FC Yurcak Field 5,000 Washington Spirit Maryland SoccerPlex 5,126 Western New York Flash Sahlen's Stadium 13,768

Breakers Red Stars Dash Kansas City Thorns Reign Sky Blue Spirit Flash Locations of teams for the 2015 National Women's Soccer League season.

Personnel and sponsorship

Note: All of the teams use Nike as their kit manufacturer.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Shirt sponsor
Boston Breakers	Tom Durkin	Schoepfer, KatieKatie Schoepfer/ Kallman, KasseyKassey Kallman/ King, JulieJulie King	Steward Health Care
Chicago Red Stars	Dames, RoryRory Dames	Chalupny, LoriLori Chalupny	CJ Wilson Mazda
Houston Dash	Waldrum, RandyRandy Waldrum	Masar, EllaElla Masar	BBVA Compass
FC Kansas City	Andonovski, VlatkoVlatko Andonovski	Sauerbrunn, BeckyBecky Sauerbrunn	Research Medical Center
Portland Thorns	Riley, PaulPaul Riley	Sinclair, ChristineChristine Sinclair	Providence Health & Services
Seattle Reign FC	Harvey, LauraLaura Harvey	Winters, KeelinKeelin Winters	Moda Health
Sky Blue FC	Gabarra, JimJim Gabarra	Rampone, ChristieChristie Rampone	Meridian Health
Washington Spirit	Parsons, MarkMark Parsons	Krieger, AliAli Krieger	ProChain Solutions, Inc.
Western New York Flash	Lines, AaranAaran Lines	Brittany Taylor	Sahlen's

Player acquisition

Players were acquired through the 2015 Allocation of national team players on January 14^[6] and the 2015 NWSL College Draft on January 16,^[7] as well as free agency and trades.

Notable acquisitions and losses

• Carli Lloyd, the scoring and assist leader for the US women's national team in 2014,^[8] was traded from the Western New York Flash to the Houston Dash on October 16, 2014.^[9]
• Heather O'Reilly, the scoring and assist leader for the Boston Breakers in 2014,^[10] was traded from Boston to FC Kansas City on October 27, 2014.^[11]
• Samantha Kerr, the leading scorer for the Western New York Flash in 2014,^[10] was traded from Western New York to Sky Blue FC on November 24, 2014.^[12]
• Sophie Schmidt, a veteran Allocated Player for the Canadian women's national team, announced in January 2015 she would not play for either Sky Blue FC or the NWSL in order to focus on the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.^[6]
• Morgan Brian, the two-time Hermann Trophy winner, was chosen No. 1 overall by the Houston Dash in the College Draft on January 16, 2015.^[7]
• Jessica McDonald, the leading scorer for the Portland Thorns in 2014,^[10] was traded from Portland to the Houston Dash during the draft on January 16, 2015.^[13]
• Jodie Taylor, the leading scorer for the Washington Spirit in 2014,^[10] was traded from Washington to the Portland Thorns during the draft on January 16, 2015.^[14]
• Abby Wambach, the scoring and assist leader for the Western New York Flash in 2013,^[15] announced on March 18, 2015 she would not play for either Western New York or the NWSL in order to focus on the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.^[16] Her rights were subsequently traded to the Seattle Reign in exchange for Sydney Leroux.

Competition format

• Each team will play a total of 20 games, 10 home and 10 away.
• Each team will play all opponents twice, once home and once away, plus four opponents an extra time, split two opponents at home and two away.
• The four teams at the end of the season with the most points will qualify for the playoffs.

Results table

^[17]

Scores listed as home-away

League standings

Tiebreakers

The initial determining factor for a team's position in the standings is most points earned, with three points earned for a win, one point for a draw, and zero points for a loss. If two or more teams tie in point total, when determining rank and playoff qualification and seeding, the NWSL uses the following tiebreaker rules, going down the list until all teams are ranked.

If two teams tie:

1. Head to Head win/loss record between the two teams.
2. Greater goal difference across the entire season (against all teams, not just tied teams).
3. Greatest total number of goals scored (against all teams).
4. Apply #1–3 to games played on the road.
5. Apply #1–3 to games played at home.
6. If teams are still equal, ranking will be determined by a coin toss.

If three or more teams tie, the following rules apply until only two teams remain tied, at which point the two-team tiebreakers listed above are used:

1. Points per game against all other tied teams (total all points earned in games against tied teams and divide by games played against tied teams).
2. Greater goal difference across the entire season (against all teams, not just tied teams).

Weekly live standings

Considering each week to end on a Sunday

Statistical leaders

Top scorers Rank Player Nation Club Goals 1 Crystal Dunn  USA Washington Spirit 15 2 Kim Little  SCO Seattle Reign FC 10 Allie Long  USA Portland Thorns FC Christen Press  USA Chicago Red Stars 5 Beverly Yanez  USA Seattle Reign FC 9 6 Jess Fishlock  WAL Seattle Reign FC 8 7 Jessica McDonald  USA Houston Dash 7 8 Sofia Huerta  MEX Chicago Red Stars 6 Samantha Kerr  AUS Sky Blue FC Kristie Mewis  USA Boston Breakers Nadia Nadim  DEN Sky Blue FC Amy Rodriguez  USA FC Kansas City Updated to games played on September 6, 2015 (end of regular season) Source:[18]

Top assists Rank Player Nation Club Assists 1 Kim Little  SCO Seattle Reign 7 2 Vanessa DiBernardo  USA Chicago Red Stars 5 Kealia Ohai  USA Houston Dash Kelley O'Hara  USA Sky Blue FC Megan Rapinoe  USA Seattle Reign FC 6 Jen Hoy  USA Chicago Red Stars 4 Allie Long  USA Portland Thorns FC Sam Mewis  USA Western New York Flash Christine Nairn  USA Washington Spirit Amy Rodriguez  USA FC Kansas City Meleana Shim  USA Portland Thorns FC Lynn Williams  USA Western New York Flash Updated to games played on September 6, 2015 (end of regular season) Source:[18]

Goalkeeping

(Minimum of 900 Minutes Played)

Rank	Goalkeeper	Club	GP	MINS	SOG	SVS	GA	GAA	W-L-T	SHO
1	Michele Dalton	Chicago Red Stars	12	1080	58	47	11	0.917	6–1–5	5
2	Nicole Barnhart	FC Kansas City	17	1530	70	54	16	0.941	8–6–3	8
3	Haley Kopmeyer	Seattle Reign FC	11	990	52	41	11	1.000	7–1–3	4
4	Michelle Betos	Portland Thorns FC	14	1260	63	45	18	1.286	5–7–2	2
5	Brittany Cameron	Sky Blue FC	20	1792	114	87	27	1.357	5–8–7	4
6	Erin McLeod	Houston Dash	11	932	74	60	15	1.364	3–4–3	2
7	Kelsey Wys	Washington Spirit	11	990	51	35	16	1.455	5–4–2	3
8	Chantel Jones	Western New York Flash	13	1155	81	60	21	1.615	4–4–5	2
9	Alyssa Naeher	Boston Breakers	12	1080	95	65	30	2.500	2–9–1	0

Source:^[18]

• Updated to games played on September 6, 2015 (end of regular season)

NWSL Playoffs

Further information: NWSL Playoffs

The top four teams from the regular season will compete for the NWSL Championship.

	Semi-finals					Championship
	1	Seattle Reign FC	3
	4	Washington Spirit	0
						1	Seattle Reign FC	0
						3	FC Kansas City	1
	2	Chicago Red Stars	0
	3	FC Kansas City	3

Semi-finals

Chicago Red Stars v FC Kansas City

September 13, 2015 12:30pm (CDT)

Chicago Red Stars	0–3	FC Kansas City
Johnson  66'	Report	Rodriguez  12', 25' Tymrak  21'

Toyota Park Bridgeview, Illinois Attendance: 2,013 Referee: Karen Abt

Seattle Reign FC v Washington Spirit

September 13, 2015 6:30pm (PDT)

Seattle Reign FC	3–0	Washington Spirit
Mathias  52' Yanez  71' Rapinoe  75' Nogueira  90'	Report

Memorial Stadium Seattle, Washington Attendance: 5,021 Referee: Christopher Spivey

Championship

Seattle Reign FC v FC Kansas City

October 1, 2015 6:30pm (PDT)

Seattle Reign FC	0–1	FC Kansas City
	Report	Sauerbrunn  76' Rodriguez  78'

Providence Park Portland, Oregon[19] Attendance: 13,264 Referee: Katja Koroleva

Individual awards

Monthly awards

See also: NWSL Player of the Month

Month	Player of the Month		Club	Month's Statline
April		Christen Press[20]	Chicago Red Stars	4G, 1A in 2 games; Red Stars 1-0-1 in April
May		Sofia Huerta[21]	Chicago Red Stars	5G, 1A in 5 games; Red Stars 3-0-2 in May
June		Kim Little[22]	Seattle Reign FC	3G, 1A in 3 games; Reigh FC 3-0-0 in June
July		Carli Lloyd[23]	Houston Dash	3G in 3 games; Dash 2-1-1 in July (2-0-1 in Lloyd appearances)
August		Crystal Dunn[24]	Washington Spirit	6G, 1A in 6 games; Spirit 2-1-3 in August

Weekly awards

See also: NWSL Player of the Week

Week	Player of the Week		Club	Week's Statline
Week 1		Megan Rapinoe[25]	Seattle Reign FC	3G, 1A
Week 2		Christen Press[26]	Chicago Red Stars	2G, 1A
Week 3		Crystal Dunn[27]	Washington Spirit	2G
Week 4		Becky Edwards[28]	Western New York Flash	1G, 1A
Week 5		Sofia Huerta[29]	Chicago Red Stars	2G, 1A
Week 6		Sofia Huerta[30]	Chicago Red Stars	2G
Week 7		Bianca Henninger[31]	Houston Dash	8 saves
Week 8		Crystal Dunn[32]	Washington Spirit	1G (GWG)
Week 9		Jessica Fishlock[33]	Seattle Reign	1G, 1A
Week 10		Michelle Betos[34]	Portland Thorns FC	4 saves, 1G (GTG)
Week 11		Crystal Dunn[35]	Washington Spirit	1G (GWG)
Week 12		Sinead Farrelly[36]	Portland Thorns FC	1G (GWG)
Week 13		Shea Groom[37]	FC Kansas City	1G (GWG), 2A
Week 14		Michelle Heyman[38]	Western New York Flash	1G
Week 15		Beverly Yanez[39]	Seattle Reign FC	2G
Week 16		Crystal Dunn[40]	Washington Spirit	3G (GWG)
Week 17		Alyssa Naeher[41]	Boston Breakers	12 saves in August 8 Spirit game
Week 18		Crystal Dunn[42]	Washington Spirit	1G (GWG)
Week 19		Kim Little[43]	Seattle Reign FC	3G (GWG)
Week 20		Crystal Dunn[44]	Washington Spirit	2G 1A
Week 21		Karina LeBlanc[45]	Chicago Red Stars	19 Shots/10 SOG/9 Saves vs Houston

Annual awards

Award	Winner
Golden Boot [46]	Crystal Dunn	Washington Spirit	15 goals
Rookie of the Year [47]	Danielle Colaprico	Chicago Red Stars	Played in all 20 games
Goalkeeper of the Year [48]	Michelle Betos	Portland Thorns FC	1.286 GAA, 45 saves
Defender of the Year [49]	Becky Sauerbrunn	FC Kansas City	990 minutes
Coach of the Year [50]	Laura Harvey	Seattle Reign	13–3–4 regular season
Most Valuable Player [51]	Crystal Dunn	Washington Spirit	15 goals, 3 assists

NWSL Best XI [52]
Position	First team			Second team
Goalkeeper	Michelle Betos	Portland Thorns FC	45 saves	Nicole Barnhart	FC Kansas City	8 shutouts
Defender	Lauren Barnes	Seattle Reign FC	1,800 minutes	Stephanie Cox	Seattle Reign FC	1,800 minutes
Defender	Julie Johnston	Chicago Red Stars	1.10 team GAA	Kendall Fletcher	Seattle Reign FC	2 goals, 2 assists
Defender	Amy LePeilbet	FC Kansas City	1,800 minutes	Arin Gilliland	Chicago Red Stars	1.10 team GAA
Defender	Becky Sauerbrunn	FC Kansas City	1.00 team GAA	Leigh Ann Robinson	FC Kansas City	1,800 minutes
Midfielder	Jess Fishlock	Seattle Reign FC	8 goals, 2 assists	Danielle Colaprico	Chicago Red Stars	1,776 minutes
Midfielder	Kim Little	Seattle Reign FC	10 goals, 7 assists	Lauren Holiday	FC Kansas City	2 goals, 2 assists
Midfielder	Allie Long	Portland Thorns FC	10 goals, 4 assists	Carli Lloyd	Houston Dash	4 goals
FW // MF	Crystal Dunn	Washington Spirit	15 goals, 3 assists	Keelin Winters	Seattle Reign FC	1,654 minutes
Forward	Christen Press	Chicago Red Stars	10 goals, 2 assists	Sofia Huerta	Chicago Red Stars	6 goals, 3 assists
Forward	Beverly Yanez	Seattle Reign FC	9 goals	Megan Rapinoe	Seattle Reign FC	5 goals, 5 assists

NWSL Championship Game MVP[4]
Player	Club	Record
Amy Rodriguez	FC Kansas City	Scored the game-winning goal

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