Women's United Soccer Association 2003

Women's United Soccer Association 2003
master	Washington Freedom
Teams	8th
Games	84
Gates	257  (ø 3.06 per game)
spectator	584,308  (ø 6956 per game)
Top scorer	Dagny Mellgren , Marinette Pichon (14 goals each)
← 2002
USL W-League ↓

The Women's United Soccer Association in 2003 was the third season of the US women's soccer league Women's United Soccer Association . The regular season began on April 5, 2003 and ended on August 10, 2003. The play-off round was played from August 16 to 24, 2003. The champions of the league was Washington Freedom from Washington, DC , who prevailed 2-1 in the final after extra time ( golden goal ) against Atlanta Beat .

Franchises and venues

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 2003

mode

In the regular season, which lasted from April 5 to August 10, 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.	Boston Breakers	21st	10	7th	4th	033:290	+4	37
2.	Atlanta beat	21st	9	8th	4th	034:190	+15	35
3.	Washington Freedom	21st	9	4th	8th	040:310	+9	31
4th	San Diego Spirit	21st	8th	7th	6th	027:260	+1	31
5.	New York Power	21st	7th	5	9	033:430	−10	26th
6th	San Jose CyberRays	21st	7th	4th	10	023:300	−7	25th
7th	Carolina Courage	21st	7th	4th	10	031:330	−2	25th
8th.	Philadelphia Charge	21st	5	5	11	030:400	−10	20th

Qualified for the play-offs

List of goalscorers

space	Player	society	number
1	Dagny Mellgren	Boston Breakers	14th
	Marinette Pichon	Philadelphia Charge	14th
3	Abby Wambach	Washington Freedom	13
4th	Julie Fleeting	San Diego Spirit	11
	Mia Hamm	Washington Freedom	11
	Charmaine Hooper	Atlanta beat	11
	Birgit Prinz	Carolina Courage	11
8th	Maren Meinert	Boston Breakers	9
9	Maribel Domínguez	Atlanta beat	7th
	Danielle Fotopoulos	Carolina Courage	7th

Spectator table

	society	spectator	Home games	per game	workload
1.	Washington Freedom	99.276	10	9,928	017.5%
2.	Philadelphia Charge	72,450	10	7,245	058%
3.	Atlanta beat	76,541	11	6,958	046.4%
4th	Boston Breakers	76,244	11	6,931	066.6%
5.	San Jose CyberRays	67,912	10	6,791	022.3%
6th	Carolina Courage	63.109	11	5,737	080.5%
7th	San Diego Spirit	61,983	11	5,635	093.9%
8th.	New York Power	42,494	10	4,249	042.1%

Play-offs

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

Semifinals

The semi-finals took place on August 16 and 17, 2003.

	Result
Boston Breakers	0: 0 a.d. (1: 3 in good condition)	Washington Freedom
Atlanta beat	2: 1 n.GG	San Diego Spirit

Founders Cup III

The final was played on August 24, 2003 at Torero Stadium in San Diego , California .

Atlanta beat		Washington Freedom
	final August 24, 2003 in Torero Stadium, San Diego Result: 1: 2 n.GG (1: 1, 1: 1) Spectators: 7,106 Referee: Terry Vaughn
	Briana Scurry - Nancy Augustyniak , Kylie Bivens , Leslie Gaston (91st Julie Augustyniak ), Sharolta Nonen - Marci Miller (65th Kristin Warren ), Cindy Parlow (89th Callie Withers ), Homare Sawa , Nikki Serlenga (45th Maribel Domínguez ) - Charmaine Hooper , Conny Pohlers	Siri Mullinix - Jennifer Grubb , Sandra Minnert , Carrie Moore - Kelly Golebiowski (64th Jennifer Meier ), Steffi Jones , Jacqui Little , Skylar Little , Lindsay Stoecker (70th Casey Zimny ) - Mia Hamm , Abby Wambach
	1: 1 Hooper (45th + 1 ', penalty)	0: 1 Wambach (7th) 1: 2 Wambach (96th, golden goal)
	Gaston (29th), Warren (71st), Hooper (78th)	Wambach (58.), Grubb (82.)
	N. Augustyniak (94.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wayback Machine: WUSA 2003 Final ( Memento from October 24, 2003 in the Internet Archive )