Atlanta Beat (WUSA)

Atlanta beat
Basic data
Surname	Atlanta beat
Seat	Atlanta , Georgia
founding	2001
resolution	2003
First soccer team
Head coach	Tom Stone
Venue	Alonzo Herndon Stadium
Places	15,011
league	Women's United Soccer Association
2003	Regular Season: 2nd place play-offs: loser finals
home Away

Atlanta Beat was an American women's soccer team from Atlanta that played in the Women's United Soccer Association . The team completed its home games at first in Bobby Dodd Stadium on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology , in the second season, it was their home games at Herndon Stadium of which located on the campus of Morris Brown College is located.

history

The franchise was founded in 2001 and began playing in the newly created Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) in April of the same year . The Atlanta Beat was the only one of the participating teams to reach the play-offs in all three seasons of the WUSA . In 2001 and 2003 they made it to the finals for the Founders Cup , but lost it to the Bay Area CyberRays and Washington Freedom .

After the league stopped playing due to financial problems, the team was dissolved in September 2003.

On October 9, 2009 it was announced that a new team from Atlanta under the same name will take part in the game operations of the newly founded Women's Professional Soccer (WPS).

Season statistics

year	league	Regular season	Play-offs	Average audience
2001	WUSA	1st place	Loser Founders Cup	11.092
2002	WUSA	4th Place	Semifinals	6,784
2003	WUSA	2nd place	Loser Founders Cup	6,958

Well-known players

•  Maribel Domínguez (2003)
•  Charmaine Hooper (2001-2003)
•  Cindy Parlow (2001-2003)
•  Conny Pohlers (2003)
•  Homare Sawa (2001-2003)
•  Briana Scurry (2001-2003)
•  Nikki Serlenga (2001-2003)
•  Sun Wen (2002)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WUSA CEASES operations after three years. USA Today, September 16, 2003, accessed February 23, 2019 . 
2. ^ Attendance Project: WUSA. Retrieved August 18, 2015 .