The National Women’s Soccer League would love to have a team in Philadelphia, but it’s unclear how much the region wants the team, writes Jonathan Tannenwald for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
“It’s a place where we’d like to be at some point,” Commissioner Jessica Berman said. “There’s been an effort to get an expansion team, but it hasn’t gone far.”
Philadelphia hasn’t had a professional women’s soccer team for 13 years.
The National Women’s Soccer League is looking to expand, though, and it likes Philadelphia.
“Philadelphia is one of the great cities in our country that we think the NWSL could be successful in,” Berman said.
The NWSL has 14 teams. It hopes to add two more teams in 2016, with Boston hosting one of the teams.
Philadelphia is one of five markets in the running, reported the Sports Business Journal last month. Former Eagles linebacker Connor Barwin is behind the effort.
Some circles put Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Nashville in the lead for supporting a team.
“We’re inching our way toward the finish line,” Berman said. “No specific update, nothing particularly newsworthy, other than that we are still on track to close by the end of this year.”
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