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2026 NWSL Season

Regular Season Standings

Rk	Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Pts/G
1	San Diego Wave	15	9	1	5	21	15	6	28	1.87
2	Spirit	13	8	3	2	22	10	12	27	2.08
3	Thorns	15	8	3	4	24	16	8	27	1.80
4	Gotham FC	13	7	3	3	15	8	7	24	1.85
5	Royals	14	7	3	4	21	16	5	24	1.71
6	KC Current	14	8	0	6	21	20	1	24	1.71
7	Courage	13	6	3	4	20	16	4	21	1.62
8	Pride	14	6	2	6	21	19	2	20	1.43
9	Angel City	13	6	1	6	20	14	6	19	1.46
10	Reign	13	5	2	6	13	16	-3	17	1.31
11	Denver	13	4	4	5	19	18	1	16	1.23
12	Dash	14	4	3	7	17	23	-6	15	1.07
13	Bay	13	4	3	6	13	19	-6	15	1.15
14	Boston Legacy	14	3	4	7	15	21	-6	13	0.93
15	Chicago Stars	14	4	0	10	8	28	-20	12	0.86
16	Racing Lou	13	2	1	10	15	26	-11	7	0.54

Squad Advanced Stats

Regular season only. xGA is expected goals conceded; GF−xG is finishing over/under-performance.

			Goals		Expected				VAEP			Threat
Rk	Team	GP	GF	GA	xG	xGA	xGD ▾	GF−xG	VAEP	Off	Def	xT
1	San Diego Wave	15	21	15	20.84	12.42	8.42	0.16	15.64	21.87	-6.23	76.16
2	Spirit	13	22	10	17.19	10.40	6.79	4.81	17.59	21.75	-4.16	57.97
3	KC Current	14	21	20	22.20	15.53	6.67	-1.20	16.69	20.37	-3.68	69.04
4	Gotham FC	13	15	8	16.53	10.89	5.64	-1.53	12.40	15.09	-2.68	63.39
5	Courage	13	20	16	21.35	15.90	5.44	-1.35	18.25	21.34	-3.09	66.88
6	Angel City	13	20	14	17.87	14.18	3.69	2.13	15.20	19.86	-4.66	66.01
7	Royals	14	21	16	21.17	17.65	3.51	-0.17	12.94	19.22	-6.28	67.30
8	Pride	14	21	19	20.25	16.75	3.50	0.75	16.57	22.04	-5.47	64.98
9	Denver	13	19	18	20.45	17.36	3.10	-1.45	15.06	19.41	-4.35	59.12
10	Thorns	15	24	16	20.49	18.53	1.96	3.51	19.88	24.78	-4.90	69.09
11	Boston Legacy	14	15	21	18.66	20.79	-2.13	-3.66	5.20	13.96	-8.76	65.38
12	Reign	13	13	16	12.81	17.00	-4.19	0.19	9.16	13.40	-4.23	62.25
13	Bay	13	13	19	12.56	19.57	-7.01	0.44	8.04	14.68	-6.64	61.08
14	Dash	14	17	23	16.15	23.26	-7.11	0.85	6.43	16.93	-10.51	56.53
15	Racing Lou	13	15	26	13.32	22.23	-8.91	1.68	11.36	15.24	-3.88	61.35
16	Chicago Stars	14	8	28	9.60	28.98	-19.38	-1.60	2.67	9.42	-6.74	56.55

League Leaders

Goals

1	Barbra Banda	Pride	12
2	Ashley Sanchez	Courage	9
3	Temwa Chawinga	KC Current	8
4	Sophia Wilson	Thorns	6
5	Trinity Rodman	Spirit	6
6	Reilyn Turner	Thorns	5
7	Kat Rader	Dash	5
8	Manaka Matsukubo	Courage	5
9	Leicy Santos	Spirit	5
10	Cloé Lacasse	Royals	5

Expected Goals (xG)

1	Barbra Banda	Pride	9.17
2	Temwa Chawinga	KC Current	8.86
3	Amanda Gutierres	Boston Legacy	6.04
4	Esther González	Gotham FC	5.96
5	Trinity Rodman	Spirit	5.38
6	Sophia Wilson	Thorns	5.04
7	Ashley Sanchez	Courage	4.79
8	Mina Tanaka	Royals	4.66
9	Ludmila	San Diego Wave	4.31
10	Melissa Kössler	Denver	4.16

VAEP

1	Barbra Banda	Pride	9.30
2	Ashley Sanchez	Courage	6.59
3	Temwa Chawinga	KC Current	6.42
4	Dudinha	San Diego Wave	5.61
5	Sophia Wilson	Thorns	4.70
6	Olivia Moultrie	Thorns	4.14
7	Janine Sonis	Denver	3.95
8	Cloé Lacasse	Royals	3.91
9	Leicy Santos	Spirit	3.78
10	Sveindís Jónsdóttir	Angel City	3.75