{"id":80380,"date":"2026-10-23T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/nwsl-drops-controversial-criteria-around-rodman-rule-in-settlement-with-nwslpa\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T19:55:02","slug":"nwsl-drops-controversial-criteria-around-rodman-rule-in-settlement-with-nwslpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/nwsl-drops-controversial-criteria-around-rodman-rule-in-settlement-with-nwslpa\/","title":{"rendered":"NWSL drops controversial criteria around \u2018Rodman Rule\u2019 in settlement with NWSLPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Any player will be eligible for High Impact Player status<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Requirements had included top 100, marketability lists<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Sides also resolve grievance on Rodman contract refusal<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The NWSL and the NWSL Players Association have reached a settlement to drop the restrictive criteria around the controversial High Impact Player (HIP) rule, allowing any player to earn the league\u2019s highest salaries.<\/p>\n<p>The NWSL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/dec\/23\/nwsl-proposes-1m-salary-cap-breach-to-keep-players-like-trinity-rodman-in-us\">introduced<\/a> the rule late last year, allowing teams to spend an additional $1m above the salary cap to sign star players. Players with the designation had to meet one of eight criteria, ranging from US national team minutes and Ballon d\u2019Or recognition to NWSL Best XI honors to media lists, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/ng-interactive\/2025\/dec\/01\/the-100-best-female-footballers-in-the-world-2025\">the Guardian\u2019s Top 100<\/a> and a ranking that ordered athletes by marketability.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/oct\/23\/nwsl-rodman-rule-hip-rule-changes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any player will be eligible for High Impact Player status Requirements had included top 100, marketability lists Sides also resolve grievance on Rodman contract refusal The NWSL and the NWSL Players Association have reached a settlement to drop the restrictive criteria around the controversial High Impact Player (HIP) rule, allowing any player to earn the &#8230; <a title=\"NWSL drops controversial criteria around \u2018Rodman Rule\u2019 in settlement with NWSLPA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/nwsl-drops-controversial-criteria-around-rodman-rule-in-settlement-with-nwslpa\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about NWSL drops controversial criteria around \u2018Rodman Rule\u2019 in settlement with NWSLPA\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80380","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=80380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}