It’s time for the Women’s Cup in Louisville, Kentucky.
The four-game, four-team tournament hosted by Racing Louisville, starts on Wednesday, August 18, and features NWSL league rivals the Chicago Red Stars and European powerhouses Paris-Saint Germain (PSG) and Bayern Munich. The tournament will be spread over two days – Wednesday and Saturday, August 21 – in two doubleheaders. On Wednesday, Bayern and PSG will play at 5 PM and Racing will host the Reds Stars at 7:30 PM. The winners of each game will move onto the first-place match to be held on Saturday at 6 PM. The third-place match opens Saturday’s doubleheader at 3PM.
Wednesday night’s match between Racing and the Red Stars will also double as an NWSL regular season fixture. As a result, Louisville season ticket holders get into both matches for free! However, they still need to purchase tickets for Saturday’s games on the Women’s Cup website. One ticket gets you into both matches.
International friendlies in the United States with NWSL teams are exceedingly rare. The only other regular tournament is the Women’s International Champions Cup which operates in a similar format. The novelty of these matches makes this opportunity a unique one. It also makes it hard to determine how the matches will actually play out. Bayern has never been the United States and PSG hasn’t for years. Even Racing and the Red Stars have only played each other once.
Let’s take a closer look at each of the four teams, meet some of their biggest players, and try to predict how they might perform during the Women’s Cup.
PSG during practice in Louisville on Monday, August 18 / Image courtesy Connor Cunningham
Paris-Saint Germain
PSG has been one of the best European teams in women’s soccer for the better part of the last decade. They’ve been UEFA Champion’s Cup finalists twice and were crowned Division 1 champions in 2021 for the very first time. In 2020-21, they also broke the stranglehold their greatest…
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