Right here’s a take a look at some stats and trivia following Week 25 of the 2026 NWSL season. We’ll hold evolving this house each week to try to hold you knowledgeable. Have an concept or an addition? Hit me @thedanlauletta on Bsky or X.
Earlier than we get into it, here’s a take a look at how the desk stands. Word that Gotham FC, the San Diego Wave and the Washington Spirit have clinched playoff berths, and the Chicago Stars, Racing Louisville, Boston Legacy, Bay FC, Houston Sprint and Orlando Delight have been eradicated. Gotham and the Wave are assured of internet hosting quarterfinals.
All statistics reference common season video games solely besides the place famous.
PLAYER STATS
–Ashley Sanchez stays on 20 targets, tied for the single-season league file first established by Temwa Chawinga in 2024. Barbra Banda, the closest pursuer within the Golden Boot race with 17, is awaiting clearance to return to the U.S. as a consequence of medical restrictions from touring to Uganda and can miss at the least this weekend’s match for the Delight.
-The help file additionally hangs within the steadiness. Cloé Lacasse and Croix Bethune stay at 10 assists, equaling Tobin Heath and Bethune two years in the past for the single-season file.
–Sofia Huerta assisted a purpose for Nérilia Mondésir, extending her all-time file to 36. Her closest pursuer, Vanessa DiBernardo, additionally had an help and has 33 for her profession. Jess Fishlock’s help was her thirty first, tied for third all-time with Jess McDonald and Lynn Biyendolo.
–Kaleigh Kurtz has now performed 142 consecutive common season matches and 12,742 consecutive minutes. Each are league information. The streaks started June 26, 2021, whereas taking part in for the Braveness. (The unrounded quantity is because of a rain-shortened match in 2023.)
-No gamers made NWSL debuts final weekend.
-Establishment on the ten/10 membership with two weeks to play: Trinity Rodman and Cloe Lacasse stay closest to reaching the milestone. Rodman has 11G/8A whereas Lacasse is on 8G/10A. Pietra Tordin is at 8G/9A.
-All 9 gamers to have performed each minute this season performed full 90s over the weekend to stay on target for ironmen seasons. The six discipline gamers are Kate Del Fava, Jessie Fleming, Kaleigh Kurtz, Tara Rudd, Kennedy Wesley (mistakenly named right here final week as Kennedy Fuller) and Ryan Williams. The opposite three — Angelina Anderson, Sandy MacIver, and Kailen Sheridan — are goalkeepers.
–Amanda Gutierres has not performed any full 90s, however that didn’t cease her from scoring her tenth purpose of the season for the Legacy. She is the one participant ever to achieve 10 targets in a season with out taking part in 90 minutes in any recreation.
TEAM STATS
-Kate Del Fava stays minute-perfect for the Royals having performed all 7,200 over 80 video games because the crew launched in 2024. These are the longest streaks from the beginning of any enlargement crew.
-The Washington Spirit clinched a playoff berth, their seventh in membership historical past and third in a tow. Three straight matches the most effective for the crew, first achieved 2014-2016.
-Regardless of successful, the Delight have been eradicated from playoff competition. It ended a two-year streak of being a playoff crew. The Delight have now missed the playoffs in 7 of their 10 seasons.
-The Spirit’s win over Gotham moved the crew to 116-116-74. The membership has solely been above .500 as a membership as soon as, following a win over the Reign on September 7, 2016. The Spirit then misplaced video games away to the Reign after which Pink Stars to lose out on the Protect to the Thorns and fall under .500 the place they’ve been ever since.
-In case you piggyback the Braveness statistics with the Western New York Flash, who have been offered and relocated to The Triangle in early 2017, the loss to the Wave was the one centesimal in franchise historical past.
-Racing Louisville have nonetheless not saved a clear sheet this season.
