2009 Women's Professional Soccer season

The 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season served as the inaugural season for WPS, the top level professional women's soccer league in the United States. The regular season began on March 29 and ended on August 9, with the postseason being held between August 15 and 21.

Women's Professional Soccer
Season2009
ChampionsSky Blue FC
Goals scored153
Average goals/game2.10
Top goalscorerMarta (10)
Highest attendance16,089 Washington Freedom v SkyBlue FC
Lowest attendance1,878 Sky Blue FC v Boston Breakers
2010 →

Competition format
  • The season began on March 29 and will end on August 9.
  • Each team played a total of 20 games that are evenly divided between home and away games. Under the following format, each team will play every other team three times either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away, for a total of 18 games. The remaining two games will be played against two other teams, one at home and one away.
  • The four teams with the most points from the regular season qualified for the playoffs. The third-placed and fourth-placed regular season finishers played each other in the single-match First Round. The winner of the First Round then faced the second-placed regular season finisher in the Super Semifinal, with the winner facing the first-placed regular season finisher in the WPS Final.

Results table
Abbreviation and Color Key:
Boston Breakers – BOS • Chicago Red Stars – CHI • FC Gold Pride – BAY • Los Angeles Sol – LA
Saint Louis Athletica – STL • Sky Blue FC – NJ • Washington Freedom – WSH
Win  • Loss  • Tie  • Home
Club Match
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Boston BreakersBAYSTLWSHCHILALAWSHNJSTLBAYCHIWSHNJNJCHIBAYNJWSHSTLLA
2–12–01–34–02–10–01–12–10–11–10–21–01–01–21–00–10–00–10–12–1
Chicago Red StarsSTLWSHNJBOSNJBAYSTLLABAYWSHNJBOSLAWSHBAYBOSNJWSHLASTL
0–11–10–04–00–20–10–21–11–10–01–00–24–02–13–11–01–02–33–12–0
FC Gold PrideBOSNJLAWSHNJSTLCHILAWSHCHIBOSLASTLCHIBOSLASTLWSHNJSTL
2–11–11–03–41–01–00–10–23–11–11–12–00–13–10–10–01–12–32–01–1
Los Angeles SolWSHNJBAYSTLBOSBOSNJBAYSTLCHIWSHNJBAYSTLCHIWSHSTLBAYCHIBOS
2–00–21–00–02–10–01–00–22–01–13–10–02–01–24–00–10–10–03–12–1
Saint Louis AthleticaCHIBOSLAWSHBAYCHILANJBOSWSHLANJBAYLAWSHNJBAYBOSCHIBAY
0–12–00–03–31–00–22–01–00–10–11–21–20–10–11–01–01–11–02–01–1
Sky Blue FCLABAYCHIBAYCHILAWSHBOSSTLLACHISTLBOSBOSWSHCHISTLBOSBAYWSH
0–21–10–01–00–21–02–12–11–00–01–01–21–01–24–41–01–00–02–03–1
Washington FreedomLACHIBOSBAYSTLBOSNJBAYLACHISTLBOSCHILANJSTLCHIBOSBAYNJ
2–01–11–33–43–31–12–13–13–10–00–11–02–10–14–41–02–31–03–23–1

Standings
Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification
1 Los Angeles Sol 20 12 5 3 27 10 +17 41 Regular Season Champion
2 Saint Louis Athletica 20 10 4 6 19 15 +4 34 WPS Playoffs
3 Washington Freedom 20 8 5 7 32 32 0 29
4 Sky Blue FC 20 7 5 8 19 20 −1 26
5 Boston Breakers 20 7 4 9 18 20 −2 25
6 Chicago Red Stars 20 5 5 10 18 25 −7 20
7 FC Gold Pride 20 4 6 10 17 28 −11 18
Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Playoffs
Main article: 2009 Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs
  First Round Super Semifinal WPS Final
                           
    1 Los Angeles Sol 0
    2 Saint Louis Athletica 0     4 Sky Blue FC 1
3 Washington Freedom 1     4 Sky Blue FC 1  
4 Sky Blue FC 2

Leaders

[1] Last updated: August 4, 2009

Offense

Fouls

Goalkeeping

270+ MINS only

Rank Goalkeeper Club GP MINS SOG SVS GA GAA W-L-T SHO
1 Jillian Loyden Saint Louis Athletica 3 270 18 16 1 0.33 2–1–0 2
2 Karina LeBlanc Los Angeles Sol 18 1620 87 73 9 0.50 10–3–5 12
3 Ali Lipsher Boston Breakers 11 928 46 37 6 0.58 4–4–2 5
4 Hope Solo Saint Louis Athletica 15 1350 86 71 13 0.87 7–5–3 7
5 Jenni Branam Sky Blue FC 16 1395 82 62 15 0.97 6–6–3 6
6 Caroline Jönsson Chicago Red Stars 19 1710 109 87 23 1.21 5–9–5 4
7 Alison Whitworth FC Gold Pride 4 360 22 17 5 1.25 1–2–1 1
8 Kristin Luckenbill Boston Breakers 9 782 41 24 12 1.38 3–4–2 2
9 Nicole Barnhart FC Gold Pride 12 1260 83 61 20 1.43 3–7–4 2
10 Erin McLeod Washington Freedom 13 1170 69 46 19 1.46 5–5–3 3
11 Briana Scurry Washington Freedom 3 270 17 11 6 2.00 0–2–1 0

Awards

Player of the Week
Week Player of the Week Club Week's Statline
Week 1 Aya Miyama Los Angeles Sol 1 A (6') GWA
Week 2 Marta Los Angeles Sol 2 G (42', 45') GWG
Week 3 Kelly Smith Boston Breakers 1 G (53') GWG, 1 A (87')
Week 4 Aly Wagner Los Angeles Sol 1 A (47') GWA
Week 5 Abby Wambach Washington Freedom 2 G (18', 90') GWG, 1 A (51')
Week 6 Sonia Bompastor Washington Freedom 2 G (29', 90')
Week 7 Lori Chalupny Saint Louis Athletica 1 G (16') GWG
Week 8 Christine Sinclair FC Gold Pride 1 G (30') GWG
Week 9 Jillian Loyden Saint Louis Athletica 6 SVS, SHO
Week 10 Shannon Boxx Los Angeles Sol 1 G (50')
Week 11 Camille Abily Los Angeles Sol 1 G (90'), 2 G (14', 60')
Week 12 Eniola Aluko Saint Louis Athletica 1 G (43') GWG
Week 13 Erin McLeod Washington Freedom 7 SVS, SHO
Week 14 Marta Los Angeles Sol 1 G (73') GWG, 2 G (62', 92')
Week 15 Lindsay Tarpley Chicago Red Stars 1 A (48'), 1 G (61') GWG
Week 16 Cristiane Chicago Red Stars 3 G (31', 46+', 65') GWG
Week 17 Natasha Kai Sky Blue FC 2 G (5', 86'); 6 shots
Week 18 Abby Wambach Washington Freedom 2 G (35', 56')
Week 19 Lindsay Tarpley Chicago Red Stars 1 A (24'), 1 G (47') GWG
Week 20 Abby Wambach Washington Freedom 1 A (58'), 2 G (20', 49')

Player of the Month
Month Player of the Month Club Month's Statline
April Kelly Smith Boston Breakers 3 G, 1 A in 3 games; Breakers 2–2–0 in April
May Sonia Bompastor Washington Freedom 2 G, 3 A in 4 games; Freedom 2–0–2 in May
June Camille Abily Los Angeles Sol 5 G in 6 games; Sol 4–0–2 in June
July Abby Wambach Washington Freedom 4 G, 1 A in 5 games; Freedom 3–2–1 in July

Statistics

Scoring

Discipline

Streaks

Other Firsts

Home Team Record

(Regular season only)

  • 33 wins, 20 losses, 17 ties – 1.657 PPG
  • 87 goals for, 59 goals against – +28 GD

All-Star Game
Main article: WPS All-Star 2009

WPS All-Star 2009 was played on August 30 at Soccer Park in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri, with the WPS All-Stars defeating Swedish powerhouse Umeå IK of Damallsvenskan 4–2. The match was televised in the US on Fox Soccer Channel.

See also

References
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