Women's United Soccer Association 2002

Women's United Soccer Association 2002
master	Carolina Courage
Teams	8th
Games	84
Gates	288  (ø 3.43 per game)
spectator	611,825  (ø 7284 per game)
Top scorer	Kátia (15 goals)
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The Women's United Soccer Association in 2002 was the second season of the US women's soccer league Women's United Soccer Association . The regular season began on April 13, 2002 and ended on August 11, 2002. The play-off round was played in the period from August 17 to 24, 2002. The champions of the league were the Carolina Courage team from North Carolina , who beat Washington Freedom 3-2 in the final .

Franchises and venues

Last year's champions, the Bay Area CyberRays, changed their name to San Jose CyberRays before the season started .

franchise place Stadion capacity Atlanta beat Atlanta , Georgia Alonzo Herndon Stadium 15,011 Boston Breakers Somerville , Massachusetts Nickerson Field 10,412 Carolina Courage Cary , North Carolina SAS Soccer Park 7.130 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 San Jose CyberRays San Jose , California Spartan Stadium 30,456 Washington Freedom Washington, DC Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium 56,692

Beat Breakers courage power Batch Spirit CyberRays Freedom Women's United Soccer Association 2002

mode

In the regular season, which lasted from April 13 to August 11, 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 17th. The two winners met in the final, which was held on August 24th.

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Carolina Courage	21st	12	4th	5	040:300	+10	40
2.	Philadelphia Charge	21st	11	6th	4th	036:220	+14	39
3.	Washington Freedom	21st	11	5	5	040:290	+11	38
4th	Atlanta beat	21st	11	1	9	034:290	+5	34
5.	San Jose CyberRays	21st	8th	5	8th	034:300	+4	29
6th	Boston Breakers	21st	6th	7th	8th	036:350	+1	25th
7th	San Diego Spirit	21st	5	5	11	028:420	−14	20th
8th.	New York Power	21st	3	1	17th	031:620	−31	10

Qualified for the play-offs

List of goalscorers

space	Player	society	number
1	Katia	San Jose CyberRays	15th
2	Marinette Pichon	Philadelphia Charge	14th
3	Birgit Prinz	Carolina Courage	12
4th	Danielle Fotopoulos	Carolina Courage	11
	Charmaine Hooper	Atlanta beat	11
	Dagny Mellgren	Boston Breakers	11
7th	Tiffeny Milbrett	New York Power	10
	Abby Wambach	Washington Freedom	10
9	Mia Hamm	Washington Freedom	8th
	Emily Janss	New York Power	8th
	Kristine Lilly	Boston Breakers	8th

Spectator table

	society	spectator	Home games	per game	workload
1.	Washington Freedom	102.264	11	9,297	016.4%
2.	Boston Breakers	81.202	10	8,120	078%
3.	San Jose CyberRays	78,836	11	7.167	023.5%
4th	Philadelphia Charge	75,685	11	6,880	055%
5.	Atlanta beat	67,842	10	6,784	045.2%
6th	San Diego Spirit	58,832	10	5,883	098.1%
7th	Carolina Courage	58,392	10	5,839	081.9%
8th.	New York Power	61,321	11	5,575	055.2%

Play-offs

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

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on August 17, 2002.

	Result
Philadelphia Charge	0: 1	Washington Freedom
Carolina Courage	2: 1 a.d.	Atlanta beat

Founders Cup II

The final was played on August 24, 2002 at Alonzo Herndon Stadium in Atlanta , Georgia .

Carolina Courage		Washington Freedom
	final August 24, 2002 in Atlanta (Alonzo Herndon Stadium) Result: 3: 2 (1: 1) Spectators: 15,321 Referee: Ricardo Salazar
	Kristin Luckenbill - Erin Baxter , Staci Burt , Nel Fettig , Danielle Slaton - Unni Lehn (84th Staci Wilson ), Brooke O'Hanley (46th Venus James ), Hege Riise , Tiffany Roberts - Danielle Fotopoulos , Birgit Prinz Trainer: Marcia McDermott	Siri Mullinix - Emmy Barr (84th Tracey Milburn ), Jennifer Grubb , Skylar Little , Carrie Moore - Ann Cook (46th Mia Hamm ), Steffi Jones , Anne Mäkinen (62nd Jacqui Little ), Pu Wei - Bai Jie (72nd. Monica Gerardo ), Abby Wambach Trainer: Jim Gabarra
	1: 0 Riise (20th) 2: 1 Fotopoulos (53rd) 3: 1 Prinz (58th)	1: 1 Fotopoulos (31st, own goal) 3: 2 Hamm
	Lehn (38.)	Wambach (41st), Bai Jie (55th)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wayback Machine: WUSA 2002 Final ( Memento from September 3, 2002 in the Internet Archive )