
Report: NWSL will expand to San Francisco, Utah and Boston
Utah will be rejoining the league.
Sunday’s game between the Orlando Pride and the Houston Dash on CBS saw the largest regular-season audience for an NWSL game at 442,000 viewers on average.
In comparison, the 2021 Challenge Cup final drew 534,000 viewers.
It’s also a marked improvement from the viewership numbers from roughly two and a half months ago. June 19 and 20 saw 376,000 and 299,000 viewers tune in on average, respectively.
The viewership numbers continue a trend in women’s sports set by the WNBA in August, when the Storm and Sky saw the highest-viewed regular season WNBA game since 2012.
Utah will be rejoining the league.
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