Editor’s Note: This article was written by Dirty South Soccer reader Akshay Easwaran. Akshay, a proud Georgia Tech graduate, also contributes to our SBN sister site From The Rumble Seat, and you can find his work here.
Professional women’s soccer in the United States has had three top-flight iterations:
- The Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA): Founded in 2001, folded in 2003
- Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS): Founded in 2009, folded in 2012
- The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL): Founded in 2013, expanding to 12 teams in 2022
Both of these previous iterations have shared something that the NWSL lacks: a franchise in Atlanta.