Bay Football Club is an American professional football team based in the San Francisco Bay Area that competes in the National Women's Soccer League. The team began play in the NWSL as an expansion team in the 2024 season.

The NWSL has come a far way from how the league started out in 2013. Among those changes is the amount of investment that clubs and club owners have poured into their teams. Which clubs are leading the way in giving women’s football the investment and respect it deserves?
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The young England international, who West Ham signed as a free agent in the 2022/23 season, is now transferring to Bay FC for €230,000.
Bay FC drew a sell-out crowd of 40,091 to San Francisco’s Oracle Park in their August 23 showdown with Washington Spirit—setting a new NWSL and U.S. women’s pro-sports attendance record. Despite the historic turnout, Spirit came away with a 3-2 win in a hard-fought contest.
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