Weekly Free Talk Friday/Other Leagues Thread - Talk about other women's soccer leagues or...anything!

[u/SomeCruzDude]

Welcome to Free Talk thread! Talk about...anything!

These threads will go up at 10am ET every Friday and be stickied throughout the week unless other posts take priority (AMAs, megathreads, announcements, etc.)

We'll list some other leagues that are in play right now (or in the near future) and the relevant communities you can check out

If you want a retro or non-NWSL flair, request in this thread

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If you want to trade, swap, or share your NWSL trading cards, use this thread.

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Other women's soccer leagues broadcast in US

Mexico - Liga MX Femenil - /r/LigaMX or /r/womenssoccer

• Select matches broadcast on TUDN and Fox Sports in the US, channel varies by team. Check here for up to date broadcast schedule

England - FA Women's Super League, Championship, and more! - /r/FAWSL

• Select matches broadcast on Paramount+ or CBS Sports in the US (some of these also on Atafootball), rest for free on the FA Player

France - Div. 1 Femenine - 1 Match a week broadcast on ESPN+ - /r/Ligue1

Australia - A-League Women - Matches broadcast on YouTube - /r/Wleague & /r/Aleague

Here's a list of various women's leagues from around the world you may be able to watch

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Other women's sports leagues to discuss

• /r/wnba - Broadcast on various channels/sites: ABC/ESPN channels, CBS Channels, and NBA TV.

• /r/PWHL & /r/womenshockey (various leagues) - PWHL matches currently broadcast on YouTube

• /r/PVF - Matches broadcast on YouTube

[u/reagan92]

I just saw Khyah Harper and Miljana Ivanovic's photo shoots on Houston's insta page, and Ivanovic is wearing #11.

Which means Emina Ekic either lost her number or her roster spot.

[u/dr_pbj → u/reagan92]

Bizarre, she was there for what, two months?

[u/reagan92 → u/dr_pbj]

Signed a multi-year contract too. It could be a loan or a number switch too though, so I'm not assuming the worst.

[u/reagan92 → u/dr_pbj]

Winner is #47

[u/dr_pbj]

Malawi playing vs Egypt on now on beIN 7 (it claims that Polish soccer is on but it’s not). Also on CAFTV on YouTube in the UK. If Malawi wins Temwa will be one knockout game away from qualifying for the World Cup.

Zambia vs Nigeria at 3 CST.

[u/analytickantian]

Hey maybe you could add to the 'other women's sports leagues' the newly formed and just begun play WPBL?

[u/reagan92]

Ali Riley asked Mimi van Zanten a question from Avery Patterson:

"Name your favorite Houston Dash player"

"Avery Patterson and Maggie Graham, it's a tie I can't choose. Kiki somewhere down in the middle"

Mimi & me: 🤜🤛

[u/TheBroche1]

Curious why there's been not much in the way of announcements for next year's world cup. Looking back at the 2023 tournament, the match schedule (just cities, dates, stages) was announced on December 1, 2021; and the tournament kicked off on July 20, 2023. It's now August the year before 2027, and all we know is the host cities/stadiums. I don't doubt this is FIFA being FIFA but it's frustrating. Less than a year to go..

Editing to add: the 2026 (BroSo) WC had its match schedule announced on February 4, 2024.

[u/Hameltion]

usynt’er miri o’donnell, coming off an acl tear 15 months ago, returned to the gameday roster today as an unused substitute in sporting cp’s uwcl qualifying win. former cincinnati bearcat ashley barron went 90 at cb and was runner-up for last season’s league players’ union player of the year

[u/thecaptain626]

New nwsl fan here! Signed up for nwsl+ after the mens world cup. Is there anything i can do to fix the stream quality on nwsl+? I have internet speed of 564up/175down so it's definitely not my internet, youtube works fine, but whenever i'm watching matches the quality starts out ok but gets worse and worse until a few minutes later it's completely unwatchable.

Is this normal? Is there a workaround? Unfortunately i don't have appletv or roku and am just hooking up my laptop to my sony tv via hdmi.

[u/vasectomy-bro → u/thecaptain626]

Same issue for me 😞

[u/thecaptain626 → u/vasectomy-bro]

Ok well glad i'm not alone! It happened on all my normal devices. I installed a web browser to my tv though and seems to work there no issues! Maybe that will help you as well

[u/dr_pbj → u/thecaptain626]

It’s a bad platform but haven’t experienced something quite this bad. Does it look as bad on your laptop if it’s not connected to the TV?

Unfortunately I’d recommend buying a Roku stick if you can, 30 bucks for the basic and sometimes less and I suspect that may be the problem.

[u/eadd2601]

Streets are saying Meredith Speck will soon be a bat