National Women's Soccer League 2013

National Women's Soccer League 2013
master	Portland Thorns FC
Teams	8th
Games	88
Gates	238  (ø 2.70 per game)
spectator	375,763  (ø 4270 per game)
Top scorer	Lauren Holiday (12 goals)
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The National Women's Soccer League in 2013 was the first season of the US women's soccer league National Women's Soccer League . The regular season began on April 13 with the game FC Kansas City against Portland Thorns FC and ended on August 18, 2013. This was followed by a play-off with the four best teams of the season, which in two semifinals and a final NWSL championship played. The franchise of the Western New York Flash came first in the regular season , the final of the championship was won by Portland Thorns FC.

Franchises and venues

franchise place Stadion capacity Boston Breakers Somerville , Massachusetts Dilboy Stadium 3,000 Chicago Red Stars Lisle , Illinois Sports Complex at Benedictine University 3,000 Kansas City FC Kansas City , Kansas Shawnee Mission District Stadium 6,150 Portland Thorns FC Portland , Oregon Jeld-Wen Field 20,438 Seattle Reign FC Seattle , Washington Starfire Sports 4,500 Sky Blue FC Piscataway Township , New Jersey Yurcak Field 5,000 Washington Spirit Washington, DC Maryland SoccerPlex 5.126 Western New York Flash Elma , New York Sahlen's Stadium 13,768

Breakers Red stars Kansas City Thorns Reign Sky blue Spirit Flash 2013 National Women's Soccer League venues

Before the start of the season, the 8 participating franchises were assigned a total of 55 internationals from the United States , Canada and Mexico :

→ National Women's Soccer League 2013 / Player Allocation

This was followed by two so-called draft rounds, in which the franchises were able to sign additional players:

→ National Women's Soccer League 2013 / College Draft

→ National Women's Soccer League 2013 / Supplemental Draft

In addition, after the college draft, it was possible to sign players without a club (so-called free agents ).

mode

In the regular season, which lasted from April 13 to August 18, each team played a total of 22 games, 11 at home and 11 away. Each team played:

• four games each (two home and two away games) against three other teams, based on a geographical division of the teams in east and west,
• two games each (one home and one away game) against two other teams and
• three games each (two home and one away game as well as one home and two away games) against the remaining two teams.

The four best-placed teams at the end of the season qualified for the play-offs. The semi-finals, in which the first placed fourth and the second placed third, took place on August 24th. The two winners met in the final, which was held on August 31st.

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Western New York Flash	22nd	10	8th	4th	036:200	+16	38
2.	Kansas City FC	22nd	11	5	6th	034:220	+12	38
3.	Portland Thorns FC	22nd	11	5	6th	032:250	+7	38
4th	Sky Blue FC	22nd	10	6th	6th	031:260	+5	36
5.	Boston Breakers	22nd	8th	6th	8th	035:340	+1	30th
6th	Chicago Red Stars	22nd	8th	6th	8th	032:360	−4	30th
7th	Seattle Reign FC	22nd	5	3	14th	022:360	−14	18th
8th.	Washington Spirit	22nd	3	5	14th	016:390	−23	14th

for the play-offs qualify

Results

In the absence of real match days, the games are given for each team in chronological order, with the results line by line from the perspective of the respective team.

team	game
	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
Boston Breakers (BOS)	WHAT	WNY	CHI	WHAT	KC	WHAT	NJ	WNY	CHI	NJ	SEA	NJ	SEA	POR	NJ	POR	KC	WHAT	WNY	POR	KC	WNY
	1: 1	2: 1	4: 1	1: 1	0: 2	3-0	1: 5	2: 2	0: 1	2: 3	1: 2	3: 2	1: 1	2-0	0-0	1: 2	0: 3 1	5: 2	2: 2	2: 1	1-0	1: 2
Chicago Red Stars (CHI)	SEA	POR	BOS	NJ	POR	WNY	POR	BOS	KC	KC	WNY	SEA	WNY	WHAT	KC	WHAT	SEA	POR	SEA	WHAT	NJ	KC
	1: 1	0: 2	1: 4	1: 1	0: 2	1: 2	2-0	1-0	0: 2	3: 1	2: 2	1: 3	1-0	2-0	3: 3	1-0	1: 4	3: 3	3: 1	0: 1	3: 3	2: 1
Kansas City FC (KC)	POR	SEA	SEA	WNY	BOS	NJ	POR	SEA	CHI	CHI	WHAT	NJ	POR	WHAT	WNY	CHI	SEA	BOS	NJ	POR	BOS	CHI
	1: 1	2-0	1-0	1: 2	2-0	0: 1	3: 4	1-0	2-0	1: 3	2-0	2: 2	2-0	1: 1	0-0	3: 3	2-0	3: 0 1	1-0	3: 2	0: 1	1: 2
Portland Thorns FC (POR)	KC	SEA	CHI	WHAT	CHI	NJ	WHAT	SEA	CHI	KC	SEA	NJ	KC	BOS	WNY	BOS	CHI	NJ	KC	BOS	WNY	SEA
	1: 1	2: 1	2-0	2: 1	2-0	0: 1	2-0	1-0	0: 2	4: 3	2-0	0-0	0: 2	0: 2	1: 1	2: 1	3: 3	3: 1	2: 3	1: 2	0-0	2: 1
Seattle Reign FC (SEA)	CHI	POR	KC	KC	NJ	WHAT	NJ	POR	KC	POR	WNY	BOS	CHI	BOS	WNY	WHAT	KC	CHI	CHI	WNY	WHAT	POR
	1: 1	1: 2	0: 2	0: 1	0: 2	2: 4	0: 3	0: 1	0: 1	0: 2	1: 1	2: 1	3: 1	1: 1	3: 2	2: 1	0: 2	4: 1	1: 3	0: 1	0: 1	1: 2
Sky Blue FC (NJ)	WNY	WHAT	WNY	CHI	SEA	POR	SEA	KC	BOS	WNY	BOS	POR	KC	BOS	WHAT	BOS	WNY	KC	POR	WHAT	CHI	WHAT
	1-0	2: 1	1: 2	1: 1	2-0	1-0	3-0	1-0	5: 1	0: 3	3: 2	0-0	2: 2	2: 3	1-0	0-0	0: 3	0: 1	1: 3	1-0	3: 3	1: 1
Washington Spirit (WAS)	BOS	WNY	NJ	POR	BOS	SEA	POR	BOS	WNY	KC	WNY	KC	NJ	CHI	SEA	CHI	BOS	WNY	NJ	CHI	SEA	NJ
	1: 1	1: 1	1: 2	1: 2	1: 1	4: 2	0: 2	0: 3	0: 2	0: 2	0: 4	1: 1	0: 1	0: 2	1: 2	0: 1	2: 5	0: 3	0: 1	1-0	1-0	1: 1
Western New York Flash (WNY)	NJ	WHAT	BOS	NJ	KC	CHI	BOS	NJ	WHAT	CHI	SEA	WHAT	CHI	KC	SEA	POR	NJ	WHAT	BOS	SEA	POR	BOS
	0: 1	1: 1	1: 2	2: 1	2: 1	2: 1	2: 2	3-0	2-0	2: 2	1: 1	4-0	0: 1	0-0	2: 3	1: 1	3-0	3-0	2: 2	1-0	0-0	2: 1

Legend
Home game	Away game

¹The game scheduled for April 20 between Kansas City FC and the Boston Breakers has been postponed to July 24th due to the attack on the Boston Marathon . Otherwise the game would have been the second game of the season for both teams.

List of goalscorers

space	Player	society	number
1	Lauren Holiday	Kansas City FC	12
2	Sydney Leroux	Boston Breakers	11
	Abby Wambach	Western New York Flash	11
4th	Alex Morgan	Portland Thorns FC	9
5	Carli Lloyd	Western New York Flash	8th
	Diana Matheson	Washington Spirit	8th
	Mónica Ocampo	Sky Blue FC	8th
	Christine Sinclair	Portland Thorns FC	8th
9	Sophie Schmidt	Sky Blue FC	7th
10	Samantha Kerr	Western New York Flash	6th
	Erika Tymrak	Kansas City FC	6th

NWSL Championship Play-offs

The four best-placed teams of the regular season qualified for the play-offs.

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on August 24, 2013.

	Result
Kansas City FC	2: 3 a.d.	Portland Thorns FC
Western New York Flash	2: 1	Sky Blue FC

final

The final took place on August 31, 2013 at Sahlen's Stadium in Rochester , New York .

Western New York Flash		Portland Thorns FC
	final August 31, 2013 in Rochester, New York Result: 0: 2 (0: 1) Spectators: 9,129 Referee: Kari Seitz Match report
	Adrianna Franch - Amy Barczuk (55th McCall Zerboni ), Estelle Johnson , Katherine Reynolds , Brittany Taylor - Sarah Huffman (72nd Vicki DiMartino ), Carli Lloyd , Adriana Martín , Angela Salem - Samantha Kerr (84th Jodi-Ann Robinson ), Abby Wambach	Karina LeBlanc - Rachel Buehler , Marian Dougherty , Nikki Marshall , Kathryn Williamson - Tobin Heath (63rd Tina Ellertson ), Angie Kerr (80th Courtney Wetzel ), Allie Long , Meleana Shim - Danielle Foxhoven (71st Alex Morgan ), Christine Sinclair
		0-1 Heath (40th) 0-2 Sinclair (90th + 2 ')
	Johnson (33.), Martín (74.)	Long (89.), Ellertson (90.)
		Williamson (49./57.)
	Player of the Match: Heath (Portland Thorns FC)

The championship team

Coach Cindy Parlow Cone used 23 players over the course of the season, nine of whom scored at least one goal. The most successful goal scorers in Portland were the two attackers Alex Morgan and Christine Sinclair . The most successful joker was Danielle Foxhoven , who scored three of her four goals this season after substitutions.

Portland Torns FC

Goal : Addie Gay (0/0), Karina LeBlanc (21/0), Cris Lewis (1/0) Defense : Carlie Davis (0/0), Marian Dougherty (19/1), Tina Ellertson (3/0) , Nikki Marshall (22/0), Emilee O'Neil (4/0), Casey Ramirez (4/0), Rachel Buehler (20/0), Courtney Wetzel (16/1), Kathryn Williamson (22/0) Midfield : Amanda Dutra (0/0), Becky Edwards (10/0), Elizabeth Guess (4/0), Tobin Heath (7/0), Angie Kerr (15/0), Allie Long (22/2), Meleana Shim (19/5), Nikki Washington (11/1) Forward : Danielle Foxhoven (21/4), Alex Morgan (18/9), Christine Sinclair (20/8), Tiffany Weimer (10/1), trainer : Cindy Parlow Cone

Players who left Portland Torns FC before the start of the play-offs:

• Roxanne Barker (0/0, goal, switch to Pali Blues )
• Jazmyne Avant (4/0, Defense, Boston Breakers )
• Nicolette Radovcic (0/0, storm, North Jersey Valkyries )
• Jessica Shufelt (4/0, Sturm, Mallbackens IF )
• Michele Weissenhofer (0/0, storm, unknown )

Change of coach

franchise		Trainer	reason	date	Table position	successor
	Washington Spirit	Mike Jorden	Discharge	07/01/2013	8th.	Mark Parsons
	Boston Breakers	Lisa Cole	Discharge	08/02/2013	5.	Cat Whitehill (player-coach, interim)

Honors

After the end of the regular season, the NWSL awarded awards for the most successful goalscorer, the most valuable player, as well as the best young player, goalkeeper, defender and the best coach. Journalists, club representatives and NWSL players were entitled to vote in the election. All individual awards went to players and the coach of FC Kansas City .

Lauren Holiday was named both the most successful goalscorer and most valuable player of the season.

	Laureate	Runner-up	Third place
Most successful goalscorer	Lauren Holiday , 12 goals ( Kansas City FC )	Abby Wambach , 11 goals ( Western New York Flash )	Sydney Leroux , 11 goals ( Boston Breakers )
Rookie of the year	Erika Tymrak ( Kansas City FC )	Adrianna Franch ( Western New York Flash )	Sydney Leroux ( Boston Breakers )
Goalkeeper of the Year	Nicole Barnhart ( Kansas City FC )	Adrianna Franch 1 ( Western New York Flash )	Karina LeBlanc 1 ( Portland Thorns FC )
Defender of the Year	Becky Sauerbrunn ( FC Kansas City )	Christie Rampone ( Sky Blue FC )	Leigh Ann Robinson ( Kansas City FC )
Coach of the year	Vlatko Andonovski ( FC Kansas City )	Jim Gabarra ( Sky Blue FC )	Aaran Lines ( Western New York Flash )
Most Valuable Player ( MVP )	Lauren Holiday ( Kansas City FC )	Abby Wambach ( Western New York Flash )	Lori Chalupny ( Chicago Red Stars )

¹ Shared second place.

Web links

• Official homepage of the league

Individual evidence

1. ↑ National Women's Soccer League 2013 Schedule , nwslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved April 22, 2014.
2. ↑ Breakers-FC Kansas City game postponed due to security, travel issues , equalizersoccer.com (English). Retrieved June 10, 2013.
3. ↑ Jeff Kassouf: Official: Last-place Spirit fire coach Mike Jorden , equalizersoccer.com (English). Retrieved September 10, 2013.
4. ^ Breakers fire Cole, Whitehill named interim coach , equalizersoccer.com (English). Retrieved September 10, 2013.