{"id":39797,"date":"2025-04-25T16:32:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/nwsl-looks-to-expand-footprint-with-introduction-of-second-tier\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:32:32","slug":"nwsl-looks-to-expand-footprint-with-introduction-of-second-tier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/nwsl-looks-to-expand-footprint-with-introduction-of-second-tier\/","title":{"rendered":"NWSL looks to expand footprint with introduction of second-tier"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>League submits application to US Soccer<\/li>\n<li>WPSL Pro has submitted similar plans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NWSL is looking to build on the rise of interest in women\u2019s soccer by applying to create a second-tier of the league.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/44850805\/nwsl-submits-bid-launch-second-division-2026\">The league confirmed to ESPN on Friday<\/a> that it had submitted a formal application to the US Soccer Federation for a second division.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/apr\/25\/nwsl-looks-to-expand-footprint-with-introduction-of-second-tier\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>League submits application to US Soccer WPSL Pro has submitted similar plans The NWSL is looking to build on the rise of interest in women\u2019s soccer by applying to create a second-tier of the league. The league confirmed to ESPN on Friday that it had submitted a formal application to the US Soccer Federation for &#8230; <a title=\"NWSL looks to expand footprint with introduction of second-tier\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/25\/nwsl-looks-to-expand-footprint-with-introduction-of-second-tier\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NWSL looks to expand footprint with introduction of second-tier\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}