After months of offseason planning, new coach hits, new signatures and weeks of pre -season preparation, the regular NWSL 2025 season is finally there – and it’s time to predict how everything will manage.
Like the past seasons, 2025 is about to be full of surprises that will make the projections of the season difficult to do. While the Orlando Pride and the Washington Spirit hope to continue the momentum of last year for another campaign, the Houston Dash aims to disturb things after an ambitious reconstruction during the winter. He is preparing for another competitive year in the NWSL after an offseason of change.
Here is an overview of the CBS sports team prospects in the 2025 NWSL season.
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Recruit of the year
Sandra Herrera: Brooklyn Courntall (courage) – The defender has just lived a successful university career where she helped the USC in NCAA tournaments and Big Ten titles. She has international experience with Canada and moving between left and right central back roles. It could be responsible for a change of position at the rear if the coache staff wanted to modify the bottom line and its adaptability could mean the honors of the recruit of the year.
Pardeep Cattry: Trinity Armstrong (wave) – Defenders are generally not high-end for end-of-year awards like this, but Trinity Armstrong is someone ready to make large swings. The 17 -year -old woman left UNC after her first year for professional ranks, joining a team from San Diego Wave who said goodbye to Naomi Girma after recovering $ 1.1 million for her Chelsea services. This is not an easy situation for Armstrong to get started and head coach Jonas Eidevall can be patient with her, but if the defender can hit the ground, she could be a candidate for this price.
Chuck Booth: Brooklyn Courtall (NC courage) – When you enter the League, it is important to consider the situation that a player is put, and if it is one where not only will he have playing time, but that the team is strong enough for this to be a significant time. Courtnall checks these boxes going to courage and it also has an international experience with Canada, which will help the transition to the NWSL an easier.
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Year -round
Herrera: JIn Good Giralde (Spirit) – The former Barcelona coach has a full season in front of him to work with the team and he already has a title with the CUP 2025 challenge. His group has competed with the Orlando Pride for the SHIELD NWSL 2024 and removed them in penalties in the CUP challenge, and now Giraldez and his group of second -year players and international pros can lead the table.
Cattry: Jonathan Giraldez (Spirit) -Jonatan Giraldez took like a fish in the water in the NWSL despite the lack of the first half of the season in 2024, so expect 2025 to offer a showcase of his full talents as a chief coach. He is definitely the precursor of this price already and if his previous experiences are something to pass, it is as good as for this price.
Stand: Jonathan Giraldez (Spirit) – We are unanimous on the coach of the year, but that should not surprise what Giraldez was able to do with the mind in just half a season. It is exciting to expect your first full season in charge and that the mind is in the running for several equipment this season if they are able to meet high expectations in front of them, look.
MVP
Herrera: A shipping agent (current) – It was a problem for the League defenses in 2024 and it will remain so in 2025 with new additions and players returning to the current. With more attack options for the team, this could mean more unpredictability, more goals and more MVP caliber games.
Cattry: Barbra Banda (Pride) – Like Chawinga, Barbra Banda quickly settled in the NWSL and became one of the best performers of 2024, there is therefore no reason to suggest that she will not find a way to form another strong work season. It will probably be a closely disputed race for the MVP this year, but things could tilt its way when it continues to assert for itself as one of the greatest scorers in the game.
Stand: Barbra Banda (Pride) – I don’t know if there is a shot that Banda cannot make. It is automatic for pride. Given all opportunities to lead the team and surrounded by talent even more this season after having already entered the League and raised the NWSL championship, even repeating what Banda could lead to MVP honors. When the scene is already ready to do better than a season where she has already scored 13 goals and helped six others, we were able to see the video game numbers this season.
NWSL champions
Herrera: This is the current of the city – Last year, Kansas City was eliminated in the semi-finals by the Orlando Pride, and this time, they will have the locked memory to push them over the line. Like last season, they will have to manage their goalkeeper, which could mean hiccups along the way, so no shield for them. However, the playoffs are where anything can happen, and they have shown that they could move forward, if the group remains healthy, they will lift the championship.
Cattry: Washington Spirit – The Washington Spirit may have failed both in the quest to win the Shield NWSL and the championship last season, but it was not much. They will not only be motivated by these losses, but have built one of the most exciting lists of the NWSL, including a star of Trinity Rodman, mounting talents like Croix Bethune and Hal Hershfelt and exciting players like Leicy Santos and Rebeca Bernal. Winning trophies is clearly the main priority of the mind and with one already to their credit this season with the CUP challenge, more could be in store.
Stand: Washington Spirit – After having succeeded in the NWSL championship last season, The Spirit will be back to direct the table and capture its second NWSL championship since 2020. Being able to race in the final with Croix Bethune which went back last season, The Spirit will have a dynamic presence in the center of the league. This is a team that can gain in different ways and this will arise during the campaign.
