The 2025 National Women's Soccer League season kicks off Friday, and the big on-field question is an unfamiliar one: Is there a big four pulling away from the rest of the pack?
That was abundantly clear last season, and the top squads from 2024 have all bolstered their sides with strong additions in the offseason. Several teams look like they are improved, however, and they will hope to restore the NWSL's much-lauded parity in 2025.
Did the North Carolina Courage, who finished a distant fifth, make arguably the biggest intraleague acquisition of the offseason by landing U.