This weekend, the National Women’s Soccer League will have a compressed schedule, with three matches on Friday night and four on Saturday. No matches will be played on Easter Sunday.
On Saturday, the Orlando Pride will host the Washington Spirit in the marquee match of the week (5:05 p.m. EDT, ION). Last year, the Spirit lost to the Pride in the NWSL Championship. However, in this year’s preseason Challenge Cup match, the Spirit bested the Pride via penalties.
Friday night has a pair of juicy matches:
- The Prime Video match features the Portland Thorns taking on the Seattle Reign in a renewal of the Cascadia rivalry (10:00 p.m. EDT).
- A half-hour later, it is a battle of West Coast versus East Coast when #4 Angel City (10:30 p.m. EDT, NWSL+) faces #5 Gotham FC.
All matches this week can be streamed live, with only one on a paid service, Prime Video.
Four matches will be broadcasted via NWSL+, while the remaining pair of matches will be on the ION channel, which is available via free streaming services such as Tubi (tubitv.com) and PlutoTV (pluto.tv).
NWSL 2025 Regular Season, Week 5 Schedule
Direct streaming links are provided if available.
Friday, April 18
Utah Royals vs. Chicago Stars
- Start Time: 9:30 PM EDT / 6:30 PM PDT
- TV: n/a
- Streaming: NWSL+
- Referee: John Matto
- VAR: Shawn Tehini
Seattle Reign vs. Portland Thorns
- Start Time: 10:00 PM EDT / 7:00 PM PDT
- TV: n/a
- Streaming: Prime Video
- Referee: Jeremy Scheer
- VAR: Corbyn May
Angel City FC vs. NJ/NY Gotham FC
- Start Time: 10:30 PM EDT / 7:30 PM PDT
- TV: n/a
- Streaming: NWSL+
- Referee: Danielle Chesky
- VAR: Edvin Jurisevic
Saturday, April 19
Racing Louisville vs. San Diego Wave
- Start Time: 3:00 PM EDT / 12:00 PM PDT
- TV: n/a
- Streaming: NWSL+ / Paramount+
- Referee: Jamie Padilla
- VAR: Kevin Broadley
Orlando Pride vs. Washington Spirit
- Start Time: 5:05 PM EDT / 2:05 PM PDT
- TV: ion
- Streaming: ion
- Referee: Elton Garcia
- VAR: Greg Dopka
North Carolina Courage vs. Bay FC
- Start Time: 7:00 PM EDT / 4:00 PM PDT
- TV: n/a
- Streaming: NWSL+
- Referee: Iryna Petrunok
- VAR: Kevin Broadley
Kansas City Current vs. Houston Dash
- Start Time: 7:30 PM EDT / 4:30 PM PDT
- TV: ion
- Streaming: ion
- Referee: Katja Koroleva
- VAR: Edvin Jurisevic
Looking Ahead…
Week 6 begins early, on Tuesday, with a match that features the Portland Thorns hosting Gotham FC. Both clubs will represent the NWSL in the upcoming Concacaf W Champions Cup semifinals, which will be played on Wednesday, May 21, and hopefully, the final of that tournament, which will be played on Saturday, May 24. A third-place match will also be played.
As those two teams will not be available for that weekend, the match on Tuesday is essentially an early make-up match. Starting next weekend, the remaining 12 teams will have a game in hand until the last weekend in May. After that, all 14 teams will have symmetrical one match per week schedules for the rest of the season.
2025 NWSL Table (after Week 4)
The Orlando Pride and the Kansas City Current continue to be the only teams with perfect records, while Angel City remains the only other undefeated club, with two wins and two draws.
The North Carolina Courage and the Utah Royals are the only teams without a victory in 2025.
1. Orlando Pride — 12 pts, +10 gd (4-0-0)
2. Kansas City Current — 12 pts, +9 gd (4-0-0)
3. Washington Spirit — 9 pts, +3 gd (3-0-1)
4. Angel City FC — 8 pts, +3 gd (2-2-0)
5. NJ/NY Gotham FC — 5 pts, 0 gd (1-2-1)
6. Portland Thorns — 5 pts, -1 gd (1-2-1)
7. Seattle Reign — 4 pts, -1 gd (1-1-2)
7. Bay FC — 4 pts, -1 gd (1-1-2)
9. San Diego Wave — 4 pts, -2 gd (1-1-2)
10. Houston Dash — 4 pts, -2 gd (1-1-2)
11. Racing Louisville — 4 pts, -3 gd (1-1-2)
12. Chicago Stars — 3 pts, -7 gd (1-0-3)
13. North Carolina Courage — 2 pts, -3 gd (0-2-2)
14. Utah Royals — 1 pts, -5 gd (0-1-3)
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).
For those in the USA, matches shown on CBS Sports Network may not have a standalone streaming alternative. Thus to view matches that will be shown on CBS Sports Network, one will need to have a TV service provider package that includes the CBS Sports Network channel.
The full schedule is available as a Google Sheets document (last updated on 17-Apr-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.
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