NWSL: 2025 USA TV/Streaming Schedule — Week 1, with Referee Assignments

The first weekend of the 2025 National Women’s Soccer League season kicks off on Friday, March 14. All fourteen teams will be in action.

In the USA, four of the seven matches will be televised. In addition to the Saturday ION doubleheader, ABC and ESPN 2 will each show a match, on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. All seven matches can be streamed live: Four via a free service (NWSL+ and ION) and three via a paid service (Prime Video and ESPN+).

The top two teams from last season, the Orlando Pride and the Washington Spirit will both be in action on Friday, with the Pride being featured on the first Prime Video broadcast of the 2025 regular season. Sunday’s lone match will be a SoCal derby between Angel City FC and the San Diego Wave.

Friday, March 14

Houston Dash vs. Washington Spirit

  • Start Time: 8:00 p.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: n/a
  • Streaming: NWSL+
  • Referee: Matt Thompson
  • VAR: Danielle Chesky

Orlando Pride vs. Chicago Stars

  • Start Time: 8:00 p.m. EDT / 5:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: n/a
  • Streaming: Prime Video
  • Referee: Shawn Tehini
  • VAR: Katja Koroleva

Saturday, March 15

Kansas City Current vs. Portland Thorns

  • Start Time: 12:45 p.m. EDT / 9:45 a.m. PDT
  • TV: ABC
  • Streaming: ESPN+ (English, Spanish)
  • Referee: Alyssa Nichols
  • VAR: Kevin Broadley

Racing Louisville vs. North Carolina Courage

  • Start Time: 5:00 p.m. EDT / 2:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: n/a
  • Streaming: NWSL+
  • Referee: Adorae Monroy
  • VAR: Shawn Tehini

Utah Royals vs. Bay FC

  • Start Time: 7:30 p.m. EDT / 4:30 p.m. PDT
  • TV: ion
  • Streaming: ion
  • Referee: Jaclyn Metz
  • VAR: Danielle Chesky

Seattle Reign vs. Gotham FC

  • Start Time: 10:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: ion
  • Streaming: ion
  • Referee: Alexandra Billeter
  • VAR: Shawn Tehini

Sunday, March 16

Angel City vs. San Diego Wave

Notes

The ION channel is available on most standard cable and satellite packages. It can also be streamed free via a number of different streaming platforms (ION TV help page).

The full schedule is available as a Google Sheets document (last updated on 4-Feb-2025).

The NWSL’s official schedule is at https://www.nwslsoccer.com/schedule/regular-season.

NWSL referee assignments are published each Wednesday during the season on the Professional Referee Organization (“PRO”) website: https://proreferees.com/category/assignments/nwsl-assignments/. At the present time, the PRO website is not optimized. Individual articles can be slow to load.