Caitlin Clark joins NWSL ownership group bidding to bring soccer team to Cincinnati
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Caitlin Clark has joined an ownership crew making an strive to assemble a Nationwide Ladies folk’s Soccer League crew in Cincinnati, Ohio.
NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman offered on Friday that Cincinnati is regarded as one of three final cities within the working to change into the 16th NWSL franchise, up in opposition to Cleveland and Denver.
“The NWSL Cincinnati show crew is thrilled that Caitlin Clark has joined our ownership crew in pursuit of bringing a ladies’s professional soccer crew to our metropolis,” the NWSL Cincinnati show crew wrote in a stammer.
“Her ardour for the sport, commitment to elevating ladies’s sports in and all the arrangement by the Better Cincinnati bother, and affect as an athlete and characteristic model for ladies and ladies all the arrangement by the arena, form her a actually important share of our compelling show to change into the 16th crew within the NWSL,” the stammer persevered.
The league at the 2nd has 14 teams, with Boston-essentially based fully BOS Nation Soccer Club plan to affix for the 2026 season.
Bay FC, which played its first season this yr, spent $Fifty three million to conceal the NWSL expansion price. The club’s majority proprietor, investment company Sixth Avenue, agreed to invest $125 million into the crew all together.
Cleveland is likely Cincinnati’s excellent competition for the 16th bother within the league, because the Cleveland Soccer Neighborhood has reportedly bought 13.6 acres of disclose land in downtown Cleveland to assemble a 12,500-seat stadium that is estimated to cost round $150 million.
A breakout critical particular person at the University of Iowa, Clark has persevered her ascent within the Ladies folk’s Nationwide Basketball Affiliation, contributing to the league’s most-viewed season on TV in historical previous. Clark took home the 2024 WNBA Rookie of the one year award after the Indiana Fever guard closed out a frightening yr, atmosphere various WNBA records together with most assists in a season, with 337, and most three pointers made by a rookie, with 122.
The NWSL earlier Friday declined to touch upon Clark’s involvement with Cincinnati’s ownership crew.
— CNBC’s Jessica Golden contributed to this characterize.
