The 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season served as the inaugural season for WPS, the top level professional women's soccer league in the United States. The regular season began on March 29 and ended on August 9, with the postseason being held between August 15 and 21.
The season began on March 29 and will end on August 9.
Each team played a total of 20 games that are evenly divided between home and away games. Under the following format, each team will play every other team three times either twice at home and once away or once at home and twice away, for a total of 18 games. The remaining two games will be played against two other teams, one at home and one away.
The four teams with the most points from the regular season qualified for the playoffs. The third-placed and fourth-placed regular season finishers played each other in the single-match First Round. The winner of the First Round then faced the second-placed regular season finisher in the Super Semifinal, with the winner facing the first-placed regular season finisher in the WPS Final.
Standings
Blue denotes team has clinched regular season championship.
Green denotes team has spot in 2009 Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs.
Last updated: August 4, 2009
270+ MINS only
First Goal of the Season: Allison Falk for Los Angeles Sol against Washington Freedom, 6th minute (29 March)
Earliest Goal in a Match: 2 minutes
Kelly Smith for Boston Breakers against Los Angeles Sol (2 May)
Eniola Aluko for Saint Louis Athletica against Sky Blue FC (28 June)
Latest Goal in a Match: 93+ minutes
Jennifer Nobis for Boston Breakers against Sky Blue FC (12 July)
Widest Winning Margin: 4 goals
Chicago Red Stars 4-0 Boston Breakers (25 April)
Los Angeles Sol 4-0 Chicago Red Stars (27 June)
Most Goals Scored in a Match: 8
Sky Blue FC 4-4 Washington Freedom (26 April)
First Hat-Trick: Cristiane for Chicago Red Stars against FC Gold Pride (12 July))
Fastest Hat-Trick: 35 minutes
Cristiane for Chicago Red Stars against FC Gold Pride: 31' 46+' 65' (12 July)
First Own Goal: Ifeoma Dieke of Chicago Red Stars for Saint Louis Athletica (23 May)
Average Goals per match: 2.086
First Yellow Card: Nikki Krzysik for Chicago Red Stars against Saint Louis Athletica, 90th minute (4 April)
First Red Card: Frida Östberg for Chicago Red Stars against Washington Freedom, 63rd minute (11 April)
Most Yellow Cards: 4
Chioma Igwe (Chicago Red Stars)
Kia McNeill (Saint Louis Athletica)
Most Yellow Cards in a Match: 4
Boston Breakers 2-0 Saint Louis Athletica - 3 for Boston (Kasey Moore, Alex Scott, & Stacy Bishop) and 1 for St. Louis (Melissa Tancredi) (11 April)
Saint Louis Athletica 0-0 Los Angeles Sol - 2 for St. Louis (Kia McNeill & Daniela) and 2 for Los Angeles (Aya Miyama & Shannon Boxx) (25 April)
Los Angeles Sol 0-0 Boston Breakers - 2 for Los Angeles (Shannon Boxx & Camille Abily) and 2 for Boston (Angela Hucles & Nancy Augustyniak)
Washington Freedom 0-0 Chicago Red Stars - 2 for Washington (Abby Wambach & Sonia Bompastor) and 2 for Chicago (Brittany Klein & Megan Rapinoe) (13 June)
Chicago Red Stars 3-1 FC Gold Pride - 3 for Chicago (Lindsay Tarpley, Karen Carney, & Carli Lloyd) and 1 for Bay Area (Formiga) (12 July)
Longest Winning Streak: 4 Games
Los Angeles Sol Games 13-16
Longest Unbeaten Streak: 11 games
Los Angeles Sol Games 6-16
Longest Winless Streak: 10 games
FC Gold Pride Games 8-17
Longest Losing Streak: 4 Games
FC Gold Pride Games 12-15
Longest Shutout: 361 minutes by Karina LeBlanc for Los Angeles Sol
Longest Drought: 451 minutes for Chicago Red Stars
First player to score twice in a match: Marta for Los Angeles Sol against Sky Blue FC (5 April)
First come-from-behind victory: Chicago Red Stars 2-1 Washington Freedom (1 July)
First team to lose to all opponents: Chicago Red Stars with loss to Washington Freedom on 26 July
The only other team to accomplish this was FC Gold Pride with loss to Sky Blue FC on 5 August
First team to beat all opponents: Los Angeles Sol with win against Boston Breakers on 9 August
The only other team to accomplish this was Sky Blue FC with win against Los Angeles Sol on 22 August
First goalkeeper assist: Hope Solo (to Christie Welsh) for Saint Louis Athletica against FC Gold Pride on 9 August
(Regular season only)
33 wins, 20 losses, 17 ties - 1.657 PPG
87 goals for, 59 goals against - +28 GD
WPS All-Star 2009 was played on August 30 at Soccer Park in the St. Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri, with the WPS All-Stars defeating Swedish powerhouse Umeå IK of Damallsvenskan 4–2. The match was televised in the US on Fox Soccer Channel.
