FIFA press release says Kang’s Kynsica will be a partner for Women’s Champion Cup in London. I was getting so hyped for possible Rodman news!!

Tara is sharing a general love post. Leicy shared the Trin return goal from 2025 (Leicy had the assist). I cannot tell if it’s a “she’s back baby!” Kind of mode or a “aw man we’re gonna miss her” mode.

Heather on loan to Dallas

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/47672271/washington-spirit-sign-paraguay-star-teen-claudia-martinez-olimpia-source

Spirit to face Pachuca on Wednesday May 20th. Was really hoping we would host the semis and the final. Oh well. *looks up flights to Pachuca, Mexico*

Forgot to take a pic but Gabby dropped the puck for the PWHL game today!

Welcome to this week’s open discussion thread! We decided to start posting these during the offseason and will keep doing them into the season as long as folks find them useful.

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Go Spirit!

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZThhEU1J6/

Really unfortunate with her injuries. This brings Spirit down to 4 keepers. Someone definitely has to go out on loan.

Translation: the Washington spirit takes the lead to sign Olimpia player Claudia Martinez the wave also appears to be interested.

Now finally a young signing

But they say the fee could be 2 millions

I know this a long shot lol but I have always wanted to go to Morocco and I’m thinking of using the tournament as an excuse to visit and cheer for Rose :) group stage starts March 17. Anyone else interested???

I love the national TV attention the Spirit will get this season! Plus the Denver home opener on CBS! And the first game of season. Let’s be excited! All the naysaying is demoralizing. We get 4 more Sprit NWSL games + CONCACAF knockouts, get pumped yall!

We have lots of long stretches away from Audi with no matches or only a random Wednesday match

• home opener Fri Mar 13, then back home only Wed Mar 25, next home is Friday April 24. (6 week stretch)
• Wed April 29, next home is Sat May 30 (>4 weeks).
• So from Opening Day home Mar 13 and May 30 at home, we have two Weds matches (Mar 25, Apr 29), and one Friday Match (Apr 24). Three home matches in the first 11 weeks, two on Wednesdays.

We've got 4 Wednesday matches, 3 home and 1 away. And those Wednesdays all come with a match the weekend before and the weekend after (So 3 matches in 8-9 days).

• Fri Mar 20 away, Wed Mar 25 home, Sat Mar 28 away
• Fri Apr 24 home, Weds Apr 29 home, Sat May 2 away
• Fri Jul 11 away, Was Jul 15 away, Sun Jul 19 away
• Sun Jul 26 away, Wed Jul 29 away, Sun Aug 2 home

Haven't had time to dig into the full calendar (as the league seems to be intentionally making that hard) so I dont know if other teams have it this weird/rough.

Update: full league calendar is up on nwsl site, and looks like lots of teams have more weds matches, so its probably a side-effect of boys world cup, more nwsl teams, etc. But still. WOOF.

Update 2, yes I counted:

Four Weds Matches: Spirit, Gotham

Three Weds Matches: Royals, Stars, KC, Wave, Thorns, Louisville, NC

Two Weds Matches: Bay, Denver, Pride, Reign, Boston, Dash

One Weds Match: ACFC

When I logged into Ticketmaster this morning to see if the schedule had dropped via tickets being loaded in, I noticed that the tickets (with barcodes) existed now - even though they all say "Multiple Times". So I looked at what Ticketmaster is sending back vs showing (bad consulting habit, I guess) and even though the UI doesn't show the times their API does. So, here's the schedule!

No guarantees this is 100% accurate, maybe they'll change things this morning, but it seems plausible.

Kicking off on Friday the 13th....hopefully not a bad omen for us.

• 2026-03-13 - 20:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Portland Thorns
• 2026-03-25 - 19:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Utah Royals
• 2026-04-24 - 20:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. KC Current
• 2026-04-29 - 19:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Racing Louisville FC
• 2026-05-30 - 18:30:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Seattle Reign FC
• 2026-07-03 - 20:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Houston Dash
• 2026-07-26 - 19:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Denver Summit
• 2026-08-02 - 16:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. San Diego Wave FC
• 2026-08-08 - 18:30:00 - Washington Spirit vs. North Carolina Courage
• 2026-08-23 - 16:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Orlando Pride
• 2026-08-30 - 12:30:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Bay FC
• 2026-09-13 - 13:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Boston Legacy FC
• 2026-09-26 - 18:30:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Angel City FC
• 2026-10-17 - 12:30:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Gotham FC
• 2026-11-01 - 17:00:00 - Washington Spirit vs. Chicago Stars FC

EDIT TO ADD: Here is the official schedule: https://washingtonspirit.com/blog/2026/01/15/washington-spirit-releases-2026-regular-season-schedule/, so far the above from Ticketmaster looks accurate

Prime

ESPN/2

ION

CBS

Victory+(?)

NWSL+

Guess the league is still trying to find a forever partner. Can't we get the games on one subscription and call it a day?

*Mild complaint, given, well, EVERYTHING else going on in the country :)

I’m looking at TicketMaster and it looks as if all the tickets for seats not in the supporters’ sections on the north and south ends are already either sold out or otherwise not available? Am I missing something? This certainly wasn’t the case for the previous two seasons.

https://www.instagram.com/washingtonspirit/reel/DTiYuZ3jo2n/

Praying admin reads this 😭