NWSL sees a 493% viewership growth in 2020, exceeding NBA, NFL, MLB by a landslide. Streaming the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup is made globally accessible via online platform Twitch. The venues will be closed to fans, part of a massive effort to secure and keep safe the players, coaches and other team and league employees operating within a country very much in the throes of an epidemic. Staging it in a localised based will minimise the risk of spreading infections by negating travelling across the United States, with players to live in a controlled environment in what has been dubbed an ‘NWSL Village’. All Access at first, while the championship game will air on CBS, reflecting the changed, but still significant presence on the network that signed a multi-year deal with NWSL last offseason. They can be streamed on Twitch outside of those two countries. But it is hard to call what NWSL has managed here anything other than an unmitigated success. Alex Morgan will also not be playing. Probably need to get up a little early, but that suits me.”, Harrington quipped that, “I think ultimately we’re going to be so excited for that first game that we could play it at 4 o’clock in the morning and we’d be there, ready.”. 100% spam free, published once a week (Thursday or Friday). The first game of the tournament will be on June 27 at 10:30 a.m. between the two-time reigning league champion North Carolina Courage and the Portland Thorns, and the Chicago Red Stars and Orlando Pride will play in the nightcap. Plan your week ahead and don't miss a game of your favorite team! “As our country begins to safely reopen and adjust to our collective new reality, and with the enthusiastic support of our players, owners, as well as our new and current commercial partners, the NWSL is thrilled to bring professional soccer back to the United States,” said NWSL Commissioner Lisa Baird. This leads us to the next search term, “how to watch NWSL”. Replays are available 24-48hrs later (but are generally appearing sooner) Canada: CBS currently has a deal where the first month is for free - otherwise, it’s $6 for the entire month. Below is the schedule for the first nine matchdays of the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup, which runs from June 27 to July 13: The 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup will kick off the 2020 NWSL season after an interruption due to COVID-19. Writer/editor on WNBA/NBA/NWSL/MLB/NCAA women's, men's basketball and more. All games will be played without fans in attendance. While dates and matchups for the preliminary round of the nine-team tournament to be held in Utah were previously announced, game times were unveiled Tuesday. Here’s why. How to watch the NWSL Challenge Cup For those of you inside the USA/Canada, your best option is to watch via CBS All Access. Both semi-finals will be on 22 July, followed the 2020 Challenge Cup final at Rio Tinto Stadium on 26 July. Stay informed with our weekly list of live match TV schedules. The current fraught moment promises to re-order the world in ways we’re only beginning to understand. Nine teams will be featuring in the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. The 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup presented by P&G and Secret marked the return to action for the NWSL. Should you get a flu shot? It means that the data is too small for it to be included on Google Trends. McDonald's to close 200 U.S. restaurants. All other games will be streamed on CBS All Access. — on a multi-year deal, the league also announced Wednesday. Anything in between gives us an indication of how popular it is for an examined period. For fans in the United States and Canada, the opening game and final will be broadcast live on CBS and streamed on CBS All Access. Re-plays are available on CBS Sports Network. The tech giant has many products and tools and there’s one that can provide unique insights into what NWSL fans are searching for, Google Trends. Interestingly, out of 14 peak search moments (value larger than zero) the Chicago Red Stars featured in five of them, more than any team. We’ve seen you coming Angel City? “There’s so many procedures in place. That’s the good news. NWSL Challenge Cup day 1: Game thread, live stream, how to watch Steve Voght 6/27/2020. The analysis reviews 30 days (06/27/2020-07/27/2020) starting with the tournament’s opening day and concluding a day after the final. All teams will stay in a “village” of sorts to help limit the chances of anyone involved contracting the novel coronavirus. And not only has new commissioner Lisa Baird pulled this off, she added a new sponsor in the process — Verizon The results are demonstrated on popularity rank between 0-100. However, the withdrawal of Orlando Pride one week to kick-off due to positive coronavirus cases recorded among their club's players and staff altered the NWSL Challenge Cup's set-up and fixtures. Eight teams will advance past through the preliminary round to the quarterfinals, meaning one will be eliminated. Other fans who live outside the USA or Canada, so for instance, in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Korea or another international location can live-stream the entire tournament on Twitch. In addition, all players, staff, and other key personnel will be tested for COVID-19 48 hours before leaving for Utah and regularly be monitored and tested throughout the tournament. “We just need to prepare appropriately. The USWNT striker gave birth to her first child in early May, which would have made participating difficult – but she was at least in touch with Orlando Pride about potentially returning to action, until the club withdrew completely. The next graph might help: It shows fluctuations in searching for the term “NWSL expansion” over the past five years in the USA. An international NWSL fan might search “NWSL twitch” and for this term we get a different picture. Only eight of the nine usual NWSL clubs are involved in the Challenge Cup. With the 2020 NWSL season cancelled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the Challenge Cup will serve as a one-off replacement tournament in the shortened timeframe. The preliminary round, which will see all teams play four games, and the quarterfinals will take place at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, and the semifinals and final will be played at Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy. Does politics belong in Halloween decorations? VZ Diving deeper into “NWSL Shop” search data by region it is evident that the majority of searches came from Illinois. This will indicate there’s potentially strong fan interest in that region. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. The 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup will take place from June 27 to July 26, 2020. All contests will be played at either 10:30 a.m. or 8 p.m. MT, with one in each time slot on each day of play. It’s important to remember that American society isn’t nearly as polarized as American politics. NWSL Returns To Action With 2020 Challenge Cup: How To Watch, What We Know Howard Megdal Senior Contributor Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. California. Women’s soccer, at the club level, has often struggled to get the focus from media that the national team receives, but now, in a March Madness-length format, these teams get first crack at a sports-starved public. “You can’t think too much about it. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. The initial 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup’s format went as follows: A woman who had been missing in Zion National Park for 12 days has been found "alive and well," her family announced Sunday. This isn’t how Addisyn Merrick pictured her rookie season. But that’s why the partnership is in place, to really zero in with more advanced tools to identify further opportunities. SALT LAKE CITY — Game times and viewing information for the National Women’s Soccer League’s Challenge Cup became available Tuesday as the league gets set to become the first one in the United States to return to play during the coronavirus pandemic. Its purpose was to determine the participating teams’ schedule; no advantage factor was given. Yes. newsletter, All teams will stay in a “village” of sorts, The story behind Masen Wake’s sweet homage to his mother, How will Pac-12 deal with game cancellations, tiebreakers? Imagine uncovering a large proportion of NWSL expansion related search terms consistently from a certain region. The USWNT superstar chose to sit out OL Reign’s NWSL Challenge Cup campaign, citing fears over the transmission of Covid-19 and the competition’s compact schedule. How does BYU stack up against the rest of the college football world? Whether you’re a fan that followed the broadcasts or got your updates via social media (or both) there was no ignoring the involvement of NWSL’s partners such as Budweiser Woman of the Match and the Secret virtual watch party powered by Google Hangouts throughout the tournament. The tool allows any user to insert search terms and in return to get search data by, popularity, geography and related queries (more on that later). The one-off NWSL Challenge Cup begins on Saturday 27 June and this is everything you need to know about the competition unique to 2020...and one that's already made some headlines in the US before kickoff. That is because the Orlando Pride withdrew only five days before the tournament is due to begin as a result of six players testing positive for COVID-19 and a further four staff members. Convention Center on January 16, 2020 in Baltimore, Maryland. Day 2: 2nd vs 4th, 6th vs 8th (June 30) The results of any league re-opening remain entirely unknown. Played behind closed doors for safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic, the 1-month long tourney involves all nine National Women’s Soccer League teams. Some of those peak moments are shared as there were two matches on those days. URFC will open its tournament on June 30, the second day of play, against the Washington Spirit, with the start time set for the 10:30 a.m. slot. International colleagues Tobin Heath and Christen Press of Portland Thorns and Utah Royals respectively have also pulled out. The National Women's Soccer League is leading the charge as the first professional team sports league to return to action in the U.S. You can catch every minute of the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup, with all of the games streaming live or on demand with CBS All Access. "The NWSLPA, working closely alongside NWSL, is excited to provide players the opportunity to return to sport, while also securing compensation and other necessities to make sure players’ concerns, feedback and safety are at the forefront of all conversations,” said NWSLPA Executive Directors Yael Averbuch and Brooke Elby. “As the plans for the tournament unfolded, it was our priority as the NWSLPA to protect our players, and we feel that NWSL shares those values.". There’s going to be an element that relies on every single player being responsible, but I also feel like the information, the communication channels that have come from the league, the players’ association, each individual club, I think the parameters are very concise and clear, and if we follow those, then I feel confident that we can make this a successful tournament.”. Diving deeper into “NWSL Shop” search data by region it is evident that the majority of searches came from Illinois. What the national media is saying about BYU football one week before Big Ten starts play. Chicago Red Stars, Houston Dash, North Carolina Courage, OL Reign, Portland Thorns, Sky Blue, Utah Royals and Washington Spirit are all still competing. (Photo by Jose Argueta/ISI Photos/Getty Images), EY & Citi On The Importance Of Resilience And Innovation, Impact 50: Investors Seeking Profit — And Pushing For Change, signed a multi-year deal with NWSL last offseason. The one-off tournament was designed to be hosted in the Salt Lake City area of Utah. “Now it’s exciting but scary to think that games start in two weeks’ time.”. Some of our analysis excludes USA and Canada data in order to focus on international markets as this is where the NWSL is seeking to grow its brand.

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