With the 13-year-old NWSL wrapping up its 2026 regular season, we look back 25 years to the debut of the USA’s first professional women’s soccer league. The WUSA kicked off in 2001 and lasted three seasons. The starting lineups of its eight inaugural teams featured most of the USA’s 1999 Women’s World Cup champions, including Cindy Parlow, now U.S. Soccer’s president.
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