The National Women's Soccer League has 8 teams to begin in 2013. Since then, new teams have been expanding or relocated like Houston in 2014, Orlando in 2016, North Carolina relocated from Western New York in 2017, and FC Kansas City relocated to Utah in 2018. Now by the time 2021 comes the league will be ready for expansion. Racing Louisville FC set to join the league next year and Angel City FC in 2022, but we need your help to bring the NWSL to Atlanta as well.

As we already know that Atlanta has an MLS team, Atlanta United FC, currently play home matches at Mercedes-Benz Stadium and it is also the home for the Atlanta Falcons. 

Atlanta is a city that has experienced a tremendous amount of success during its recent foray into professional soccer with its three-year-old MLS club, Atlanta United FC. The club won the MLS Cup in 2018, the Campomes Cup and the U.S. Open Cup in 2019 and consistently packed Mercedes-Benz Stadium, averaging 53,002 fans per home match. 

If the NWSL did come to Atlanta, it wouldn’t be the first time the city fielded a women’s team. Both of the league’s predecessors – Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) and Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA) – fielded teams in Atlanta.

The Atlanta Beat was a professional soccer team that played in the Women's United Soccer Association. The team played at Bobby Dodd Stadium on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology in their first year of operation before moving to Herndon Stadium, on the campus of Morris Brown College.

The team began play in 2001, and reached the playoffs in each of the WUSA's three seasons — the only team in the league to do so. They advanced to the Founders Cup in both 2001 and 2003, losing on both occasions.

The team joined Women's Professional Soccer as an expansion team in 2010, and played its home games at Kennesaw State University Soccer Stadium (now Fifth Third Bank Stadium), the result of a public-private partnership between the team and Kennesaw State University. Kennesaw State’s football, women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse teams play there, as Atlanta United’s USL Championship affiliate, ATL UTD 2, began playing its home matches there, too.

They played their inaugural season in 2010 until the folding of the league in 2012.

NWSL expansion is happening and we need your help!!

Will you help me bring the NWSL team to Atlanta?

If so, please sign this petition and together we'll have a women's professional soccer team back to Atlanta and creating a huge fan base like Atlanta United and make all home games a sold out crowd!!

WE WANT YOU VOICE TO BE HEARD!!

Sincerely,

Yohn Voker