Women's Professional Soccer 2009

Women's Professional Soccer 2009
master	Sky Blue FC
Teams	7th
Games	70
Gates	150  (ø 2.14 per game)
spectator	327,882  (ø 4684 per game)
Top scorer	Marta (10)
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The 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season was the first season of the US women's soccer league Women's Professional Soccer . The regular season began on March 29, 2009 and ended on August 9, 2009. The play-off rounds were played from August 15 to 21, 2009. The first champions of the league was Sky Blue FC from Piscataway Township , New Jersey , who beat Los Angeles Sol 1-0 in the final . The top scorer was the Brazilian Marta from Los Angeles Sol with ten goals.

Franchises and venues

franchise place Stadion capacity Boston Breakers Somerville , Massachusetts Harvard Stadium 30,323 Chicago Red Stars Bridgeview , Illinois Toyota Park 20,000 FC Gold Pride Santa Clara , California Buck Shaw Stadium 7,000 Los Angeles Sol Carson , California Home Depot Center 27,000 St. Louis Athletica St. Louis , Missouri Anheuser-Busch Center 5,500 Sky Blue FC Piscataway Township , New Jersey Yurcak Field 5,000 Washington Freedom Germantown , Maryland Maryland SoccerPlex 5.126

Breakers Red stars Gold pride Sol Athletica Sky blue Freedom Women's Professional Soccer 2009

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Los Angeles Sol	20th	12	5	3	027:100	+17	41
2.	St. Louis Athletica	20th	10	4th	6th	019:150	+4	34
3.	Washington Freedom	20th	8th	5	7th	032:320	± 0	29
4th	Sky Blue FC	20th	7th	5	8th	019:200	−1	26th
5.	Boston Breakers	20th	7th	4th	9	018:200	−2	25th
6th	Chicago Red Stars	20th	5	5	10	018:250	−7	20th
7th	FC Gold Pride	20th	4th	6th	10	017:280	−11	18th

Regular Season Master and participant in the WPS Championship

Participants in the Super Semifinal

Qualified for the play-offs

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
Boston Breakers (BOS)	BAY	STL	WSH	CHI	LA	LA	WSH	NJ	STL	BAY	CHI	WSH	NJ	NJ	CHI	BAY	NJ	WSH	STL	LA
	1: 2	2-0	3: 1	0: 4	2: 1	0-0	1: 1	1: 2	0: 1	1: 1	2-0	1-0	0: 1	1: 2	1-0	1-0	0-0	0: 1	0: 1	1: 2
Chicago Red Stars (CHI)	STL	WSH	NJ	BOS	NJ	BAY	STL	LA	BAY	WSH	NJ	BOS	LA	WSH	BAY	BOS	NJ	WSH	LA	STL
	1-0	1: 1	0-0	4-0	0: 2	0: 1	0: 2	1: 1	1: 1	0-0	0: 1	0: 2	0: 4	2: 1	3: 1	0: 1	0: 1	2: 3	3: 1	0: 2
FC Gold Pride (BAY)	BOS	NJ	LA	WSH	NJ	STL	CHI	LA	WSH	CHI	BOS	LA	STL	CHI	BOS	LA	STL	WSH	NJ	STL
	2: 1	1: 1	0: 1	3: 4	1-0	0: 1	1-0	0: 2	1: 3	1: 1	1: 1	0: 2	0: 1	1: 3	0: 1	0-0	1: 1	3: 2	0: 2	1: 1
Los Angeles Sol (LA)	WSH	NJ	BAY	STL	BOS	BOS	NJ	BAY	STL	CHI	WSH	NJ	BAY	STL	CHI	WSH	STL	BAY	CHI	BOS
	2-0	2-0	1-0	0-0	1: 2	0-0	1-0	2-0	2-0	1: 1	3: 1	0-0	2-0	2: 1	4-0	1-0	0: 1	0-0	1: 3	2: 1
Saint Louis Athletica (STL)	CHI	BOS	LA	WSH	BAY	CHI	LA	NJ	BOS	WSH	LA	NJ	BAY	LA	WSH	NJ	BAY	BOS	CHI	BAY
	0: 1	0: 2	0-0	3: 3	1-0	2-0	0: 2	1-0	1-0	0: 1	1: 2	2: 1	1-0	1-0	0: 1	1-0	1: 1	1-0	2-0	1: 1
Sky Blue FC (NJ)	LA	BAY	CHI	BAY	CHI	LA	WSH	BOS	STL	LA	CHI	STL	BOS	BOS	WSH	CHI	STL	BOS	BAY	WSH
	0: 2	1: 1	0-0	0: 1	2-0	0: 1	1: 2	2: 1	0: 1	0-0	1-0	1: 2	1-0	2: 1	4: 4	1-0	0: 1	0-0	2-0	1: 3
Washington Freedom (WSH)	LA	CHI	BOS	BAY	STL	BOS	NJ	BAY	LA	CHI	STL	BOS	CHI	LA	NJ	STL	CHI	BOS	BAY	NJ
	0: 2	1: 1	1: 3	4: 3	3: 3	1: 1	2: 1	3: 1	1: 3	0-0	1-0	0: 1	1: 2	0: 1	4: 4	1-0	3: 2	1-0	2: 3	3: 1

Legend
Home game	Away game

List of goalscorers

space	Player	society	number
1	Marta	Los Angeles Sol	10
2	Camille Abily	Los Angeles Sol	8th
	Abby Wambach	Washington Freedom	8th
4th	Eniola Aluko	Saint Louis Athletica	6th
	Cristiane	Chicago Red Stars	6th
	Lisa De Vanna	Washington Freedom	6th
	Natasha Kai	Sky Blue FC	6th
	Christine Sinclair	FC Gold Pride	6th
	Kelly Smith	Boston Breakers	6th
10	Rosana	Sky Blue FC	5

Spectator table

	society	spectator	Home games	per game	workload
1.	Los Angeles Sol	62,980	10	6,298	023.3%
2.	Washington Freedom 1	57,466	10	5,747	067.5%
3.	Chicago Red Stars	49.279	10	4,928	024.6%
4th	Boston Breakers	46,651	10	4,665	015.4%
5.	Saint Louis Athletica 2	38,326	10	3,833	070.6%
6th	FC Gold Pride	36,667	10	3,667	052.4%
7th	Sky Blue FC 3	36,513	10	3,651	069.9%

¹The home games against Sky Blue FC, Chicago Red Stars and Saint Louis Athletica took place at the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, DC .

²The home games against Chicago Red Stars and FC Gold Pride were played at Ralph Korte Stadium in Edwardsville , Illinois . The home game against Los Angeles Sol took place at the Robert R. Hermann Stadium in St. Louis .

³The home games against Los Angeles Sol and FC Gold Pride took place at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater , New Jersey .

Play-off round

Overview

	First round					Super semifinal					WPS Championship
											1	Los Angeles Sol	0
						2	Saint Louis Athletica	0			4th	Sky Blue FC	1
	3	Washington Freedom	1			4th	Sky Blue FC	1
	4th	Sky Blue FC	2

First round

In the first play-off round, the third in the preliminary round received the fourth in the preliminary round.

date		Result
August 15, 2009	Washington Freedom	1: 2 (0: 0)	Sky Blue FC

Super semifinal

In the second play-off round, the second in the preliminary round received the winner of the first round.

date		Result
August 19, 2009	St. Louis Athletica	0: 1 (0: 0)	Sky Blue FC

WPS Championship

Los Angeles Sol was set as the regular season champion for the championship final. The game was played at the Home Depot Center in Carson . Sky Blue FC won the title with a goal from Heather O'Reilly in the 17th minute of the game.

Los Angeles Sol		Sky Blue FC
	August 22, 2009 in Carson , California Result: 0: 1 (0: 1) Spectators: 7,218 Referee: Kari Seitz
	Karina LeBlanc - Stephanie Cox , Allison Falk , Brittany Bock - Aya Miyama , Manya Makoski , Aly Wagner (63rd Katie Larkin ), McCall Zerboni (36th Sharolta Nonen ), Shannon Boxx - Marta , Han Duan (79th Lyndsey Patterson ) trainers : Abner Rogers	Jenni Branam - Keeley Dowling , Christie Rampone - Kacey White , Meghan Schnur , Rosana (72nd Collette McCallum ), Yael Averbuch , Francielle , Heather O'Reilly (84th Noelle Keselica ), Jen Buczkowski - Natasha Kai (68th Kerri Hanks ) Coach: Christie Rampone
		0-1 Heather O'Reilly (17th)
	Brittany Bock
	Allison Falk (27th, emergency brake)

Awards

At the end of the season, the league presented six awards.

price	Honor for	Award winners
Michelle Akers Player of the Year Award	Most valuable player	Marta (Los Angeles Sol)
Defender of the Year Award	Best defender	Amy LePeilbet (Boston Breakers)
Goalkeeper of the Year Award	Best goalkeeper	Hope Solo (St. Louis Athletica)
Golden boot	Top scorer	Marta (Los Angeles Sol, 10 goals)
Sportswomen of the Year Award	Footballer of the year	Christie Rampone (Sky Blue FC)
Coach of the Year Award	Coach of the year	Abner Rogers (Los Angeles Sol)

All-Star Game

On August 30, 2009 took place in the Anheuser-Busch Center in St. Louis , the All-Star Game of the WPS instead. A league selection of the WPS met the Swedish champions Umeå IK . The WPS selection won the game by 4-2 goals.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ womensprosoccer.com: WPS Season Ends with Celebration of League's Best ( Memento from September 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Official homepage of the league