The NWSL celebrated a brand new attendance report on Saturday with a sellout crowd of 40,091 at MLB’s Oracle Park as Bay FC hosted the Washington Spirit. It’s the second attendance report that Bay FC is part of after being a part of final 12 months’s then-record attendance (35,038) at Wrigley Discipline in Chicago. Bay had been spoilers of the marquee matchup final 12 months throughout their inaugural season and are actually the only homeowners of the very best attended match in NWSL historical past. The guests received 3-2, with objectives by Kate Wiesner and Croix Bethune. 

“Breaking the NWSL attendance report is a historic second that extends far past a single match. It represents the inspiration we’re constructing at Bay FC and the legacy we hope to go away for future generations of gamers and followers. By pushing boundaries at present, we’re shaping what ladies’s soccer will appear like tomorrow. Particular because of every Bay Space fan. You made this historic second potential,” a Bay FC membership assertion learn.

The brand new crowd report is the very best of any match in NWSL relationship again to the league’s inaugural season in 2013 and is a brand new benchmark for any U.S. ladies’s skilled sports activities league. 

The loss for Bay FC means an extended march towards a playoff push. The group now sit 4 factors off the playoff line after week 17. A win for the Spirit places them in second-place with 31 factors, as third-place San Diego Wave FC have 29 factors, and a recreation in opposition to Racing Louisville on Sunday. 

What are essentially the most attended NWSL video games in historical past?

5. 32,066 at Snapdragon Stadium for San Diego Wave vs. KC Present in 2024

4. 32,262 at Snapdragon Stadium for San Diego Wave vs. Seattle Reign in 2023

3. 34,148 at Lumen Discipline for Seattle Reign vs. Washington Spirit in 2023

2. 35,038 at Wrigley Discipline for Chicago Stars vs. Bay FC in 2024

1. 40,091 at Oracle Park for Bay FC vs. Washington Spirit on Saturday