The NWSL has yet to make the formal announcement, but reports from all over the women’s soccer community are reporting that the Boston Breakers have folded and will not play in 2018.
As recently as the 2018 NCAA draft one week ago, NWSL managing director of operations (and de facto interim commissioner) Amanda Duffy was quoted by Jeff Kassouf as saying that it was “business as usual” in Boston:
However, even as she said this, Duffy must have known that a deal to stabilize the team was falling through.