Does Gotham's NWSL Championship final win make them a dynasty?
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🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
NJ/NY Gotham FC are the 2025 NWSL Champions. Seemingly, against all odds, the lowest-ever seeded champions just kept on showing up. And now, with two NWSL titles and a Concacaf title across three seasons, is it time to debate if this Gotham team is turning into a dynasty?
On a special episode of Full Time Review, recorded at PayPal Park in San Jose, Meg Linehan, and Tamerra Griffin analyze all the big talking points from Saturday's dramatic NWSL Championship final that finished Gotham 1-0 Washington Spirit. How did Rose Lavelle step up to the big occasion to win her first NWSL Championship? Why did Adrian Gonzalez wait so long to take out an injured Hal Hershfelt? What's next for Trinity Rodman after her season ends with injury woes and a final defeat for the second consecutive year? Why did Juan Carlos Amoros tinker with his team, and how did he mastermind bringing on Bruninha?
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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Referenced on the show:
Gotham FC wins NWSL championship on 80th-minute Rose Lavelle goal vs. Spirit
‘Eight years in one’: Spirit and Gotham meet in NWSL Championship after long, packed season
Trinity Rodman receives contract from Super League team larger than NWSL can match: Sources
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, I mean, I just remember, so at this point, I am back with the Gotham crew. |
| 0:07.7 | I spent the game with the Lavel family. |
| 0:10.2 | Which we need to get to. |
| 0:11.2 | We will get to that. |
| 0:12.5 | But I just remember thinking, like, she's on that corner for so long. |
| 0:18.5 | When she sat down, I was just like, okay, what's the plan here? Right. |
| 0:21.8 | When she was standing up at least, you know, jumping, kind of like warming it up, I was like, okay, but when she sat down and actually started getting treatment and the ball was still in Gotham's attacking half, third even? Yeah. That's what I was like, okay, can someone please make a move? |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah, make a move. |
| 0:44.7 | Welcome back to full time. |
| 0:46.6 | We are on the pitch at PayPal Park in San Jose, maybe an hour or so after Gotham beat the Washington Spirit 1-0 to claim the 2025 |
| 0:58.2 | N-Ev-Sel championship. |
| 0:59.6 | Meg, the confetti is different. |
| 1:01.7 | I know. |
| 1:02.1 | It's not confetti. |
| 1:03.6 | It's tinsel. |
| 1:04.5 | It's, yeah. |
| 1:04.8 | Theo thinks it's tinsel. |
| 1:06.1 | Okay. |
| 1:07.3 | Spiritually, it's confetti. |
| 1:08.6 | It's used in the same way. |
| 1:09.7 | But I'm trying to make a metaphor here because this was a very different Gotham team. |
| 1:14.6 | Yes. Different confetti, different team. We did it. And now, you know, I saw Sue Bird, I think, three or four times come up to me and say, now we have to talk about a dynasty. |
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