NWSL: 2025 USA TV/Streaming Schedule — Week 2, with Referee Assignments

Week 2 of the 2025 National Women’s Soccer League features a pair of matches between last season’s top four teams:

  • On Saturday, last year’s #2, Washington Spirit, hosts Kansas City who finished fourth in 2024.
  • Then, on Sunday, the 2024 NWSL Champions and Shield winner, Orlando Pride, visit the NJ/NY Gotham FC, which finished third in last season’s table.

In the USA, three of the weekend’s seven matches will be televised. In addition to the Saturday ION doubleheader, one match on Sunday will be shown on ESPN 2. All seven matches can be streamed live: Five via free services (NWSL+ and ION) and two via paid services (Prime Video and ESPN+).

Sunday’s match between the Chicago Stars and the Houston Dash was originally scheduled to kick-off at a later time, but was moved up to its currently scheduled start time of 3:00 p.m. EDT (noon PDT) back in February (Chicago Stars press release).

NWSL 2025 Regular Season, Week 2 Schedule

Direct streaming links are provided if available.

Friday, March 21

Portland Thorns vs. Angel City FC

  • Start Time: 10:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: n/a
  • Streaming: Prime Video
  • Referee: Greg Dopka
  • VAR: Brad Jensen

Saturday, March 22

North Carolina Courage vs. Seattle Reign

  • Start Time: 7:00 p.m. EDT / 4:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: n/a
  • Streaming: NWSL+
  • Referee: Elvis Osmanovic
  • VAR: Kevin Broadley

Washington Spirit vs. Kansas City Current

  • Start Time: 7:30 p.m. EDT / 4:30 p.m. PDT
  • TV: ion
  • Streaming: ion
  • Referee: Elijio Arreguin
  • VAR: Laura Rodriguez

Bay FC vs. Racing Louisville

  • Start Time: 10:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: ion
  • Streaming: ion
  • Referee: Danielle Chesky
  • VAR: Greg Dopka

San Diego Wave vs. Utah Royals

  • Start Time: 10:00 p.m. EDT / 7:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: n/a
  • Streaming: NWSL+
  • Referee: Shawn Tehini
  • VAR: Anya Voigt

Sunday, March 23

Chicago Stars vs. Houston Dash

  • Start Time: 3:00 p.m. EDT / 12:00 p.m. PDT
  • TV: n/a
  • Streaming: NWSL+ / Paramount+ (NWSL section)
  • Referee: Iryna Petrunok
  • VAR: Alexandra Billeter

NJ/NY Gotham FC vs. Orlando Pride

2025 NWSL Table (after Week 1)

1. Orlando Pride — 3 pts, +6 gd (1-0-0)
2. Kansas City Current — 3 pts, +2 gd (1-0-0)
3. Washington Spirit — 3 pts, +1 gd (1-0-0)
4. Angel City FC — 1 pts, 0 gd (0-1-0)
4. Bay FC — 1 pts, 0 gd (0-1-0)
4. NJ/NY Gotham FC — 1 pts, 0 gd (0-1-0)
4. North Carolina Courage — 1 pts, 0 gd (0-1-0)
4. Racing Louisville — 1 pts, 0 gd (0-1-0)
4. San Diego Wave — 1 pts, 0 gd (0-1-0)
4. Seattle Reign — 1 pts, 0 gd (0-1-0)
4. Utah Royals — 1 pts, 0 gd (0-1-0)
12. Houston Dash — 0 pts, -1 gd (0-0-1)
13. Portland Thorns — 0 pts, -2 gd (0-0-1)
14. Chicago Stars — 0 pts, -6 gd (0-0-1)

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.