The 2025 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) Championship is heading to the Bay Area.
San Jose’s 18,000-seat PayPal Park, the home stadium of Bay FC and Major League Soccer’s San Jose Earthquakes, will host this year’s title match, the league announced Thursday.
The championship will take place on Saturday, Nov. 22 with a 5 p.m. PT kickoff for the fourth straight year. It will be broadcast on CBS and stream on Paramount+.
“We’re thrilled to bring the NWSL Championship back to the West Coast and to a region with as rich a history in women’s soccer as the Bay Area,” NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman said in a news release.
“This community’s passion for the game, combined with the excitement surrounding one of our newest teams in Bay FC, makes it the perfect setting to celebrate the league’s top talent and crown our next champion.”
The Bay Area houses some of the top collegiate programs in the nation in Stanford, Santa Clara, and Cal. In 2010, the Bay Area-based FC Gold Pride claimed the title in the now-defunct Women’s Professional Soccer league with a roster bursting with star players, including Marta, Christine Sinclair, Shannon Boxx and Camille Abily.
“The history of women’s soccer runs deeply and strongly in the Bay Area,” said Bay FC co-founder…
