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“Sure, we’re an growth group, however on this league it doesn’t matter if you’re the champion or it’s your first-ever recreation — anybody can win.”
Boston Legacy FC will open its inaugural season with a bang, going through off towards reigning Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League champion NY/NJ Gotham FC within the membership’s first recreation.
Boston will host Gotham March 14 at 12:30 p.m. at Gillette Stadium. The begin to the Legacy’s first NWSL season will likely be televised on ABC.
Seventeen of the membership’s 30 video games in 2026, together with the house opener, will likely be nationally televised, and the schedule options a good break up of house and highway video games.
“I’m excited to get on the pitch and compete,” Legacy coach Filipa Patão mentioned in a launch. “We would like our followers to like watching us play, so we’ll all the time battle exhausting for our followers and for the crest on our shirt.
“We’re not right here to keep away from dropping; we’re right here to attempt to win. Sure, we’re an growth group, however on this league it doesn’t matter if you’re the champion or it’s your first-ever recreation — anybody can win.”
Boston will host the Denver Summit, one other 2026 growth membership, on Might 3 (3 p.m., CBS Sports activities Community).
The group’s first six house video games will likely be performed at Gillette Stadium, and 7 of the ultimate 9 house video games will likely be at Centreville Financial institution Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I., due to scheduling conflicts in Foxborough introduced on by the lads’s World Cup.
The primary recreation at Centreville Financial institution Stadium will likely be towards the Seattle Reign on Might 22 (8 p.m., Amazon Prime).
The NWSL schedule features a break from June 1-28 to accommodate the lads’s World Cup schedule, which incorporates seven matches at Gillette Stadium — 5 group stage video games, a spherical of 32 recreation, and a quarterfinal — between June 13 and July 9.
The Legacy’s house schedule concludes on Oct. 16 vs. Racing Louisville, and the NWSL playoffs will start on Nov. 6.
The membership will journey to Florida this month with 23 players under contract to start practices forward of its inaugural 2026 season.
