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2015 NWSL playoffs

Every 2015 NWSL playoff game, three ways: the season race carried on into the postseason, who beat their seeding, and the bracket.

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The race, continued

The same race these clubs ran all season, carried on through the postseason on one scale and on real dates.

Seeds against finish

Where each club finished the season against how far it went, ranked on record rather than seed.

The bracket

Who played whom, round by round, which no line chart can say.

What happened

FC Kansas City won the 2015 title from a regular season record of 9-5-6. 4 teams reached the playoffs and the bracket ran 2 rounds. Every game below is taken from the NWSL data feed; nothing on this page is estimated.

Every game

RoundWon byResultOpponentPlayed
SemifinalsSeattle Reign FC3-0Washington SpiritSeptember 13, 2015
SemifinalsFC Kansas City3-0Chicago Red StarsSeptember 13, 2015
NWSL ChampionshipFC Kansas City1-0Seattle Reign FCOctober 1, 2015

How “Seeds against finish” is drawn

The left column ranks this field by regular season record, not by seed number: seeding rules differ by era, so this site uses records everywhere instead. The right column groups clubs by the round they went out in, which is not the same as the number of rounds they won, because a bye carries a club further without it winning anything. The figure beside a name is places moved between the two columns, and part of it is only where a club sat inside its band. Nothing here is a prediction. The data notes carry the whole method.

The races that filled this bracket: NWSL