Women's United Soccer Association 2001

Women's United Soccer Association 2001
master	Bay Area CyberRays
Teams	8th
Games	84
Gates	235  (ø 2.8 per game)
spectator	680.705  (ø 8104 per game)
Top scorer	Tiffeny Milbrett (16 goals)
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The Women's United Soccer Association in 2001 was the first season of the US women's soccer league Women's United Soccer Association . The regular season began on April 14, 2001 and ended on August 12, 2001. The play-off round was played in the period from August 18 to 25, 2001. The champions of the league were the Bay Area CyberRays from San José , who prevailed in the final 7: 5 on penalties against Atlanta Beat .

Franchises and venues

franchise place Stadion capacity Atlanta beat Atlanta , Georgia Bobby Dodd Stadium 41,000 Bay Area CyberRays San Jose , California Spartan Stadium 30,456 Boston Breakers Somerville , Massachusetts Nickerson Field 10,412 Carolina Courage Chapel Hill , North Carolina Fetzer Field 5,700 New York Power Uniondale , New York Mitchel Athletic Complex 10.102 Philadelphia Charge Villanova , Pennsylvania Villanova Stadium 12,500 San Diego Spirit San Diego , California Torero Stadium 6,000 Washington Freedom Washington, DC Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium 56,692

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mode

In the regular season, which lasted from April 14th to August 12th, each team played a total of 21 games, three games each (two home and one away game or one home and two away games) against each other team. Thus four teams had a total of 11 home games, the four other teams only 10 home games.

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 18th. The two winners met in the final, which was held on August 25th.

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Atlanta beat	21st	10	7th	4th	031:210	+10	37
2.	Bay Area CyberRays	21st	11	4th	6th	027:230	+4	37
3.	New York Power	21st	9	5	7th	030:250	+5	32
4th	Philadelphia Charge	21st	9	4th	8th	035:280	+7	31
5.	San Diego Spirit	21st	7th	7th	7th	029:280	+1	28
6th	Boston Breakers	21st	8th	3	10	029:350	−6	27
7th	Washington Freedom	21st	6th	3	12	026:350	−9	21st
8th.	Carolina Courage	21st	6th	3	12	028:400	−12	21st

Qualified for the play-offs

List of goalscorers

space	Player	society	number
1	Tiffeny Milbrett	New York Power	16
2	Charmaine Hooper	Atlanta beat	12
	Shannon MacMillan	San Diego Spirit	12
4th	Dagny Mellgren	Boston Breakers	11
5	Liu Ailing	Philadelphia Charge	10
6th	Danielle Fotopoulos	Carolina Courage	9
	Julie Murray	Bay Area CyberRays	9
8th	Maren Meinert	Boston Breakers	8th
9	Katia	Bay Area CyberRays	7th
10	Mia Hamm	Washington Freedom	6th
	Maintain Riise	Carolina Courage	6th

Spectator table

	society	spectator	Home games	per game	workload
1.	Washington Freedom	144.207	10	14,421	025.4%
2.	Atlanta beat	122.013	11	11.092	027.1%
3.	Boston Breakers	88.127	11	8,012	076.9%
4th	Bay Area CyberRays	76,922	10	7,692	025.3%
5.	Philadelphia Charge	71,541	10	7.154	057.2%
6th	New York Power	57,237	10	5,724	056.7%
7th	San Diego Spirit	62,850	11	5,714	095.2%
8th.	Carolina Courage	57,808	11	5,255	092.2%

Play-offs

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

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on August 18, 2001.

	Result
Bay Area CyberRays	3: 2	New York Power
Atlanta beat	3: 2 a.d.	Philadelphia Charge

Founders Cup

The final was played on August 25, 2001 at Foxboro Stadium in Boston , Massachusetts .

Bay Area Cyber ​​Rays		Atlanta beat
	final August 25, 2001 in Boston (Foxboro Stadium) Result: 3: 3 n.v. (3: 3, 2: 2), 4: 2 p. E. Spectators: 21,078 Referee: Sandra Hunt
	LaKeysia Beene - Thori Staples Bryan , Brandi Chastain , Carey Dorn , Kelly Lindsey - Sissi (91st Ann Cook ), Gina Oceguera , Tisha Venturini , Christina Bell (66th Megan Horvath , 104th Jacqui Little ) - Kátia , Julie Murray Trainers: Ian Sawyers	Briana Scurry - Julie Augustyniak (39th Amy Walsh ), Nancy Augustyniak , Kylie Bivens (63rd Sun Wen ), Sharolta Nonen , Dayna Smith - Lisa Krzykowski , Homare Sawa (104th Bryn Blalack ), Nikki Serlenga - Charmaine Hooper , Cindy Parlow Trainer: Tom Stone
	1: 0 Chastain (6.) 2: 2 Murray (43.) 3: 3 Venturini (86.)	1: 1 Bivens (11th) 1: 2 Hooper (14th) 2: 3 Sun Wen (83rd)
	penalties shoot
	1: 0 Venturini 2: 1 Dorn 3: 1 Kátia 4: 2 Murray	Sun Wen shoots 1: 1 Serlenga Hooper shoots 3: 2 Blalack
	Oceguera (90.)	Smith (41.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wayback Machine: WUSA 2001 Final ( Memento from December 17, 2001 in the Internet Archive )