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NWSL · 2024 · postseason

2024 NWSL playoffs

Every 2024 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

Orlando Pride won the 2024 title from a regular season record of 18-6-2. 8 teams reached the playoffs and the bracket ran 3 rounds. Every game below is taken from the NWSL data feed; nothing on this page is estimated.

Every game

RoundWon byResultOpponentPlayed
QuarterfinalsOrlando Pride4-1Chicago Red StarsNovember 8, 2024
QuarterfinalsWashington Spirit2-1Bay FCNovember 10, 2024
QuarterfinalsNJ/NY Gotham FC2-1Portland Thorns FCNovember 10, 2024
QuarterfinalsKansas City Current1-0North Carolina CourageNovember 9, 2024
SemifinalsOrlando Pride3-2Kansas City CurrentNovember 17, 2024
SemifinalsWashington Spirit1-1, 3-0 on penaltiesNJ/NY Gotham FCNovember 16, 2024
NWSL ChampionshipOrlando Pride1-0Washington SpiritNovember 23, 2024

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