Angel City’s 2023 season schedule released, includes 28 matches

Angel City will open its second NWSL season at house with NJ/NY Gotham FC on Sunday, March 26, at newly christened BMO Stadium. The league schedule, launched Wednesday, contains 28 video games, 22 regular-season matches and 6 within the Problem Cup, which can be performed concurrently with the common season this 12 months.

Angel Metropolis will play half of these matches at house, internet hosting every of the league’s different 11 groups and enjoying convention rivals San Diego, Portland and the OL Reign in house Problem Cup video games. Along with the April 23 regular-season house recreation with in-state rival San Diego, Angel Metropolis will host the Wave in Problem Cup play on June 28.

Angel Metropolis performs in San Diego on June 17 and Aug. 5. Angel Metropolis’s solely go to to San Diego final season drew an NWSL-record crowd of 32,000 at Snapdragon Stadium.

The league’s 11^th season will run by Oct. 15, adopted by the playoffs, received final 12 months by the Portland Thorns. Angel Metropolis led the NWSL in attendance final season, averaging 19,105 over 11 house matches, 4 of which bought out. It completed 8-9-5 in its first 12 months, lacking the six-team postseason event by 4 factors.

Angel Metropolis, led by former nationwide staff forwards Sydney Leroux and Christen Press and that includes teenager Alyssa Thompson, will play at house six instances within the first 19 days of the season, dealing with Racing Louisville, the Reign, San Diego, Kansas Metropolis and Washington along with Gotham. The staff’s busiest month is Might with six matches. It would play simply six instances mixed in July and August, when the schedule slows for the Ladies’s World Cup in New Zealand/Australia.

The discharge of the league schedule was delayed as a result of eight of the 12 NWSL groups, together with Angel Metropolis, share their stadiums with MLS golf equipment. These stadiums are additionally used for concert events and different occasions, additional complicating the scheduling course of.

Angel Metropolis 2023 Schedule

(all instances Pacific)

March 26: vs. Gotham FC, 6 p.m.

April 2: at Orlando Satisfaction, 2:30 p.m.; 15: vs. Louisville, 7 p.m.; 19: vs. OL Reign*, 7 p.m.: 23: vs. San Diego Wave, 5 p.m.; 29: at Portland Thorns, 7:30 p.m.

Might 3: at OL Reign*, 7 p.m.; 7: vs. Kansas Metropolis, 5 p.m.; 13: vs. Washington, 7 p.m.; 20: at North Carolina, 4 p.m.; 27: at OL Reign, 12:30 p.m.; 31: at Portland*, 7:30 p.m.

June 4: vs. Chicago, 5 p.m.; 10: at Washington, 4 p.m.; 17: at San Diego, 1 p.m.; 25: vs. Houston, 5 p.m.; 28: vs. San Diego*, 7 p.m.

July 2: at Gotham FC, 2:30 p.m.; 9: vs. North Carolina, 5 p.m.; 29: vs. Portland*, 7 p.m.

Aug. 5: at San Diego*, 7 p.m.; 19: at Racing Louisville, 4:30 p.m.; 27: vs. OL Reign, 5 p.m.

Sept. 1: at Kansas Metropolis, 5 p.m.; 17: at Chicago, 3 p.m.; 21: vs. Orlando, 7 p.m.

Oct. 8: at Houston, 4 p.m.; 15: vs. Portland. 2 p.m.

*Problem Cup match