January 25, 2024 – National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) – Racing Louisville FC News Release
The National Women’s Soccer League on Thursday released Racing Louisville FC’s 2024 regular-season schedule, with Racing playing 26 matches – 13 home at Lynn Family Stadium and 13 away – in a balanced slate that will run from mid-March to early November.
As part of the NWSL’s new media rights deal, Racing will have 16 nationally broadcast games, including one on Amazon Prime Video and three on either ESPN or ESPN2. Details on Racing’s local television partnership will be announced later.
The four added games this year account for the NWSL’s two new expansion teams, Bay FC and Utah Royals, joining the competition. With the expanded field, the NWSL Playoffs will include eight teams in 2024, starting Nov. 9-10 and running consecutive weekends through the NWSL Championship on Nov. 24.
The full schedule can be found at RacingLouFC.com/schedule. Tickets are available by visiting RacingLouFC.com/tickets or calling (502) 568-2489 during business hours. Racing’s 2024 season ticket package starts at $14 apiece per game, and STMs can trade out tickets to games they can’t make for additional tickets to other matches.
Racing kicks off its much-anticipated 2024 campaign at home, hosting the Orlando Pride at 4 p.m. ET Saturday, March 16, at Lynn Family Stadium. It will the second time in Louisville’s four years of existence that it opened NWSL competition at home against Orlando, a talented team that narrowly missed the 2023 playoffs after a late-season surge.
The following Saturday, Racing will play its first road contest, an 8:30 p.m. ET kickoff at Houston in a showdown between two new NWSL coaches, Louisville’s Bev Yanez and the Dash’s Fran Alonso.
An exciting new addition to Racing’s schedule this year: a home game during Thunder Over Louisville. The match is an official Kentucky Derby Festival event and part of Thunder, the kickoff celebration of the 2024 Kentucky Derby set for April 20. Louisville will host Utah Royals FC at 5 p.m. ET, and ticket holders to the game will receive a wristband allowing for re-entry to Lynn Family Stadium throughout the day. The evening will culminate with the famous Thunder Over Louisville fireworks show over the Ohio River.
In all, Racing plays 25 of its 26 league games on weekends, with two on Fridays, 17 on Saturdays and six on Sundays. Only one mid-week game is on the schedule: Wednesday, June 19, at Angel City in Los Angeles.
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