NWSL Expansion: Are Boston and Denver ready for 2026?
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4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on Full Time, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan check-in on the two 2026 NWSL expansion clubs, Boston Legacy FC and NWSL Denver. With 10 months to go, just how ready for 2026 are these two expansion teams?
To help learn more about what progress is being made, this podcast also features interviews with Boston general manager Domènec Guasch and Denver team president Jen Millet. From the basics of opening a team bank account and making sure fans are invested from the jump, to knowing when we might see the a head coach hired or the first player signing. Domènec and Jen answer all the pressing questions on the build out of these two new teams.
Tamerra and Meg close out the show by discussing what they learned from those respective interviews, and then offering their lessons learned and things to avoid from previous expansion teams that have joined the NWSL.
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Articles mentioned on the show:
NWSL Denver hires Jen Millet as its first president: Colorado native ‘excited’ for another build
NWSL expansion team Boston Legacy gets White Stadium court win
Introducing Boston Legacy FC: NWSL expansion team announces new name
NWSL’s Denver expansion team announces stadium plans to open in 2028
Boston hires former FC Barcelona executive as new general manager
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HOSTS: Tamerra Griffin, Meg Linehan
GUESTS: Domènec Guasch, Jen Millet
PRODUCER: Theo Lloyd-Hughes
VIDEO PRODUCER: Lia Griffin
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Emily Olsen
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| 0:49.1 | I am Tamara Griffin, and this week on the show, we are talking about two teams, Boston and Denver. That's right, with 10 months to go somehow, what is time? Where are we now? What day is it? I don't even know. But I do know that by 2026, both of these teams are going to have full rosters. They're going to be taking the pitch in the NWSL. So I think it's time for us to sort of check in with where they're at. What kind of questions remain? What are we excited about? |
| 1:15.7 | How have some teams maybe bounced back from maybe not the most ideal introductions into the |
| 1:20.7 | league? You know what I mean? And of course, to do that, I am joined by my co-host, Meg Linnahan. |
| 1:27.2 | Meg, how are you doing? Good. I also am struggling |
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| 2:12.1 | So I'll be staying tuned for that. |
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