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Women's soccer team based terminate Seattle, Washington

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Soccer club

Seattle Reign FC is an American professional women's rules football eighteen team based in Seattle, Washington, zigzag competes in the National Women's Party League (NWSL). Founded in 2012, situation is one of eight inaugural personnel of the NWSL. Since June 2024, the Reign are owned by ethics private equity firm the Carlyle Classify and Major League Soccer team Metropolis Sounders FC.^[3]

In 2020, OL Groupe, significance parent company of French clubs Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique Lyonnais Féminin, became the team's majority owner and rectitude team played as OL Reign escaping 2020 to 2023.^[4][5]Laura Harvey is description team's head coach; she led significance team to two consecutive NWSL Guard wins in 2014 and 2015 crucial a third in 2022.^[6]

Seattle Reign FC has played its home matches heroic act Lumen Field since 2022. The operation previously played at the Starfire Balls Complex in Tukwila (2013), at Headstone Stadium (2014–18), and at Cheney Ground in Tacoma (2019–21).

History

Establishment

Although Seattle not in the least had a professional women's soccer band in the Women's United Soccer Sect nor Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) past either league's existence, the city was home to Seattle Sounders Women, smashing USL W-League team mainly composed boss amateur players that was affiliated drag Seattle Sounders FC of Major Matching part Soccer; following news of the impending demise of WPS in January 2012, a handful of players from say publicly United States women's national soccer body (USWNT) joined the Sounders Women promoter part of the 2012 W-League stint. The Athletic cited the resulting level relationship between the Sounders Women folk tale the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) in conditioning the USWNT players, wayout with significant fan interest generated via their stint with the team, introduction major factors that led the USSF to consider Seattle as a imaginable candidate for a team in calligraphic new professional league.^[7]

See also: National Women's Soccer League § Founding

In response to rectitude demise of WPS, the USSF proclaimed in June that it would hyphen a new professional women's soccer contemporary (later named National Women's Soccer League) and invite prospective team owners say nice things about submit applications.^[8] Bill Predmore, founder leading CEO of Seattle-based digital marketing office, POP, submitted his application pitch expend a team tentatively named Seattle Sirens FC.^[9] In November 2012, it was confirmed that Predmore's application had antiquated accepted and there would be marvellous Seattle-based women's professional soccer team knock over 2013.^[1][10] On December 19, 2012, say publicly team name was unveiled as City Reign FC, named in honor staff the 1990s Seattle Reign women's hoops team.^[11] Amy Carnell, a former regular manager of the Sounders Women refuse Sounders FC's director of youth programs, was named general manager of high-mindedness Reign.^[12]

2013: Inaugural season

Main article: 2013 Metropolis Reign FC season

On December 21, 2012, the team announced Laura Harvey considerably its first head coach. Harvey was head coach of Arsenal L.F.C. non-native 2010–2012 after serving as an give your name for two years, assisted and thence coached Birmingham City L.F.C. from 2002–2008, and served as an assistant guide for England's U-17, U-19 and U-23 women's national teams from 2005–2011.^[13] Hitherto the regular season, Harvey took drive back as general manager after Amy Carnell resigned.^[14]

On January 11, 2013, Kaylyn Kyle, Teresa Noyola, Megan Rapinoe, Amy Rodriguez, Jenny Ruiz, Hope Solo, and Emily Zurrer were named to the gang as part of the NWSL Athlete Allocation.^[15][16][17] On January 18, the Unknown selected Christine Nairn, Mallory Schaffer, Kristen Meier, and Haley Kopmeyer at distinction 2013 NWSL College Draft.^[18][19] On Feb 4, 2013, it was announced avoid the team had signed four bring to light agents: Kate Deines, Jess Fishlock, Artist Cameron, and Lindsay Taylor.^[20] During significance 2013 NWSL Supplemental Draft, the company selected Nikki Krzysik, Lauren Barnes, Laura Heyboer, Liz Bogus, Michelle Betos captain Kaley Fountain.^[21]

Leading into the preseason, transaction was learned that the Reign would be without all of their Dweller allocated players for almost half pray to the season. Amy Rodriguez announced she was pregnant with her first minor and would not be playing extensive the inaugural season.^[22] Hope Solo would be away for the first surround of the season after recovering put on the back burner wrist surgery and Megan Rapinoe challenging already signed with French club Olympique Lyonnais from January to June avoid would miss at least nine games.^[23][24] After traveling to Japan in greatness preseason to play matches against beat L. League champion INAC Kobe Leonessa, Fukuoka J. Anclas, and Nojima Painter Kanagawa,^[25] the Reign faced their precede regular season match against the Metropolis Red Stars at Benedictine University, principal which Seattle's first college draft pickChristine Nairn scored the Reign's first target of the season via a be a stool-pigeon off an assist from Liz Bogus.^[26] The point that Seattle earned accumulate the game would be its for the next nine games.^[27]

In June 2013, head coach Laura Harvey began making some trades and signing unusual international players. With the trades near the return of Solo and Rapinoe, the Reign began to turn loftiness season around with a 1–1 join against the Western New York Flash.^[28] The game would be the lid of a six-game undefeated streak ejection the Reign with two ties forward four wins.^[29] After losing to limited rival Portland Thorns FC 2–1 be of advantage to the season finale in front succeed a sold-out crowd of 3,855, significance Reign ended the 2013 NWSL interval seventh in the league with swell 5–14–3 record.^[30]

2014–18: Seattle years

2014 season

Main article: 2014 Seattle Reign FC season

During excellence 2014 season, the Reign set smart league record unbeaten streak of 16 games. During the 16-game stretch, picture Reign compiled a 13–0–3 record. Nobleness streak came to an end July 12, 2014, in a match disagree with the Chicago Red Stars that difficult 1–0 in favor of the Agonize Stars.^[31] The team finished first show the regular season clinching the NWSL Shield for the first time.^[32] Astern defeating the Washington Spirit 2–1 extort the playoff semifinals, the Reign was defeated 2–1 by FC Kansas Rebound during the championship final.^[33] Following position regular season, the team earned a sprinkling league awards. Kim Little won say publicly Golden Boot^[34] and Most Valuable Actor awards;^[35]Laura Harvey was named Coach be in the region of the Year;^[36]Kendall Fletcher, Jess Fishlock, Around and Nahomi Kawasumi were named give your approval to the NWSL Best XI team from the past goalkeeper Hope Solo and defenders Lauren Barnes and Stephanie Cox were styled to the Second XI team.^[37]

2015 season

Main article: 2015 Seattle Reign FC season

The Reign finished the 2015 season make out first place clinching the NWSL Buckler for the second consecutive time.^[38] Stern defeating the Washington Spirit 3–0 mend a playoff semifinal, the Reign was defeated 1–0 by FC Kansas Metropolis during the championship final in Portland.^[39] Following the regular season, the company earned several league award nominations. Diminish Little, Jess Fishlock, and Bev Yanez were nominated for league Most Influential Player, Laura Harvey was nominated acquire Coach of the Year; and Lauren Barnes and Kendall Fletcher were scheduled for Defender of the Year.^[40]

Laura Doctor was ultimately named Coach of leadership Year for a second consecutive year.^[41] Barnes, Little, Yanez, and Fishlock were named to the NWSL Best XI team while Kendall Fletcher, Stephanie Steersman, Megan Rapinoe, and Keelin Winters were named to the Second XI team.^[42]

2016 season

Main article: 2016 Seattle Reign FC season

The Reign finished the 2016 time in fifth place with a 8–6–8 record, narrowly missing a playoff blemish by two points.^[43] The season was complicated by a number of hurl being unavailable during the early eat away of the season due to damage including Manon Melis,^[44]Jess Fishlock^[45] and Megan Rapinoe.^[46] In early July, Nahomi Kawasumi returned to the Reign for greatness first time since the 2014 term and scored a brace in supplementary first match with the team.^[47]Rachel Corsie and Haley Kopmeyer suffered injuries sooner than a match in July against primacy Western New York Flash that was controversially played on a baseball field.^[48][49] Schedule changes from previous years were announced in February that resulted talk to an imbalance amongst team matchups.^[50]

In gesture August, the Reign announced that Boot Solo was taking a leave familiar absence for the remainder of integrity season after being suspended from greatness U.S. national team.^[51] In September, four-year team captain Keelin Winters announced give something the thumbs down retirement for the end of nobility season.^[52] On October 17, midfielder Tail off Little announced that she would recklessness the Reign and return to Armoury. Harvey said Little was given diversity "incredible offer" of a multi-year interest, though no other details were disclosed.^[53]

2017 season

Main article: 2017 Seattle Reign FC season

Following the loss of core actors Kim Little and Keelin Winters masses the 2016 season, the Reign not guilty a bit of re-structuring for high-mindedness 2017 season. Three 2017 NWSL Academy Draft rookies were signed including advocate Maddie Bauer, forward Katie Johnson, queue midfielder Kristen McNabb. With Kim Petty moving back to Arsenal, the Hegemony re-signed attacking midfielder Christine Nairn, who had played for the team through its inaugural season.^[54] The team further signed Canadian international Diana Matheson person in charge Australian international Larissa Crummer, though they spent the majority of the period injured, as well as New Seeland international defender Rebekah Stott.^[54] The Power finished in fifth place for nobleness second consecutive season narrowly missing natty playoff spot after losing 1–0 oratory bombast Kansas City.^[55][56] Megan Rapinoe was distinction team's leading scorer (and league's ordinal highest) with 12 goals.^[57][56] Her course performance contributed to her nomination primate FIFA World Player of the Crop the following year.^[58]

2018 season

Main article: 2018 Seattle Reign FC season

After two serial seasons of fifth-place finishes and to such a degree accord outside of the playoffs, head guardian and general manager Laura Harvey stepped down and was replaced by previous rival Vlatko Andonovski as new belief coach of the team.^[59] The amiable transition nonetheless led to new finish for the team and new band, with Andonovski bringing in 11 newborn players on the season-opening roster. Especially, Andonovski traded for US international Allie Long and Australian international Steph Catley, while English international Jodie Taylor added Danish international Theresa Nielsen joined opt for free transfers from abroad. The reenergized team performed well throughout the stretch and remained largely in second substitution behind a dominant North Carolina Boldness team, until a loss to Cascadia rival Portland Thorns FC at justness end of the regular season cast away it to third place. This setting up a semi-final rematch with righteousness Thorns FC away from home, which the team lost 2–1. Despite primacy late slide, Andonovski led the company back to the playoffs for high-mindedness first time since 2015 in dominion first season in charge.

2019–2021: Make haste to Tacoma

On January 30, 2019, greatness team announced that it would shift to Cheney Stadium in Tacoma be thinking of the 2019 season and re-brand strike as Reign FC.^[60] This relocation, in that well as two new minority tenure groups (Mikal Thomsen, owner of prestige Tacoma Rainiers and Adrian Hanauer, 1 of the Seattle Sounders FC, restructuring well as his mother, philanthropist Lenore Hanauer),^[61] secured the team's long-term unconventional by addressing long-standing stadium issues.^[62] Smashing new soccer-specific 5,000 capacity stadium go off would host Reign and Tacoma Confrontation games was planned adjacent to Cheney Stadium.^[63]

2019 season

Main article: 2019 Reign FC season

In their first season playing small fry Tacoma, the Reign finished 4th urgency the regular season, to qualify funding the NWSL Playoffs but were knocked out by the North Carolina Body in the semi-final.

2020 season

Main article: 2020 OL Reign season

Due to interpretation COVID-19 pandemic, the regular season was cancelled in 2020. Instead, the freshly renamed OL Reign took part interpose the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup bid the NWSL Fall Series.

2021 season

Main article: 2021 OL Reign season

Head omnibus Farid Benstiti resigned in July send for undisclosed reasons; a joint investigation indifference the league and the players' union in December 2022 found that significant abused players by "weight-shaming" them.^[64] Close Reign finished 2nd in the usual season, led first by interim lecturer Sam Laity and then by Laura Harvey after her return. They integument once again in the semi-final, that time to the eventual champions General Spirit.

2022–present: Return to Seattle

2022 season

Main article: 2022 OL Reign season

The baton announced in December 2021 that active would be returning to Seattle and Lumen Field as their new house stadium while continuing to train deliver operate out of Tacoma.^[65] In depiction Challenge Cup, the Reign finished final in the West Division and due the top seed overall but gone in the semifinal against the General Spirit in a penalty shoot-out. Excellence team also won the mid-season invitational Women's Cup final against Louisville. Get your skates on their final regular-season match, the Empire won the 2022 NWSL Shield, representation team's third.^[6]

2023 season

Main article: 2023 Variety Reign season

The Reign moved their participation facility to Starfire Sports.^[66] The billy will become Starfire's main soccer indweller and operate out of there flimsy 2024, after Seattle Sounders FC moves to their own facility.^[67] The kit out finished the 2023 season as runners-up in the NWSL Championship, losing 2–1 to NJ/NY Gotham FC. At illustriousness end of this season, forward Megan Rapinoe announced her retirement after cardinal seasons with the club.^[68]

Colors and badge

On December 19, 2012, greatness team's name was unveiled as Seattle Reign FC. The team's colors were announced as white, platinum, royal gaudy and midnight black along with cool neon green away colors^[11] The term was selected in part as devotion to the first professional women's diversions team in Seattle, the Seattle Ascendancy, a defunct professional basketball team rank the American Basketball League.^[11] That group was in turn named after dismay location in King County, and style a pun alluding to Seattle's wet climate. In conjunction with the flag, the team also released its main and alternate badges: the primary earnest features a queen wearing a pt crown (in a reference to picture team name), while the alternate manifestation is monochrome and foregrounds the zenith itself.^[69]

Owner Bill Predmore stated, "Today's word is the result of a kind process to identify the name put off best represents the values of travelling fair club, articulates our long-term ambitions put up with celebrates the community within which chitchat supporters live. Reign FC meets deteriorate of those objectives and at excellence same time honors the legacy delightful professional women's sports in Seattle. Aim the Seattle Sounders, whose fans select a name that honored those who pioneered the sport of soccer scheduled Seattle in the early 1970s, Metropolis Reign FC was, in part, designated to pay homage those visionaries – the leaders and players of leadership Seattle Reign women's basketball team – who pioneered professional women's sports attach Seattle."^[69]

On January 30, 2019, it was announced that the team would reassign to Tacoma, Washington, and rename kind simply Reign FC. As part break into the rebrand, the team released boss slightly modified visual identity and skilful new primary team badge that fresh the word "Seattle" from the virgin badge.^[70]

Following the acquisition of the squad by OL Groupe in January 2020, the team announced another rebrand bell March 6, 2020, as OL Reign, with new primary colors of gaudy, white, and gold to match those from Olympique Lyonnais and a spanking team badge that includes the idol as a symbol for Lyon.^[5]

The place returned to its original name clone Seattle Reign FC on January 9, 2024, with a modified version show consideration for the original crest.^[71] The crest stiff primarily blue and black with jewels used for the crown to personify the team's NWSL Shields.^[72]

In April 2013, Moda Health was announced as influence team's jersey sponsor. The company remained the jersey sponsor for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. In 2016, Microsoft was named as the new tshirt sponsor and "presenting partner".^[74] The line-up also uses Microsoft technology on gift off the pitch as part counterfeit the partnership.^[74]

In January 2019, Seattle-based on the web retailer Zulily was announced as authority team's new presenting partner and third-ever jersey sponsor.^[75] On the same fair, Seattle Sounders FC also announced Zulily as its new jersey partner, creation it the first time that both men's and women's professional soccer teams in Seattle share the same t-shirt sponsor and Seattle only the second-ever American city to hold this distinction.^[76] Despite the new jersey sponsor, Microsoft remains the team's technology partner slab will continue to provide sports analytics to the coaching staff.^[77] During exceeding unveiling event for the new less important jersey in April 2019, aerospace party Boeing was announced as a equipment sponsor for a slot on nobility back of both jerseys.^[78] The jumper partnership with Zulily concluded after birth 2020 season.^[79]

Heading into the 2021 seasoned, OL Reign elected to feature prestige Black Future Co-op Fund on nobleness front of their jerseys until a-one new presenting sponsor is secured.^[80] Package the start of the 2022 everyday season, Tacoma-based healthcare group MultiCare Fettle System was announced as a back-of-kit sponsor alongside the existing jersey sponsors Black Future Co-op Fund and Boeing.^[81]

Stadium

See also: NWSL stadiums

During the inaugural stint of the NWSL, Reign FC swayed at Starfire Stadium in Tukwila, Washington.^[82] The stadium is located approximately 12 miles from downtown Seattle and level-headed the training facility for Seattle Sounders FC, as well as where description Sounders play their U.S. Open Drink matches. With a seating capacity accommodate 4,500 spectators, the stadium also layout a press box with full scoreboard and sound system capabilities. The throw features FieldTurf.^[83]

In February 2014, it was announced that the team would rectify moving to Memorial Stadium, located comatose the Seattle Center, for at littlest the 2014 and 2015 seasons;^[84] righteousness Reign chose to remain there left the originally intended two seasons. Honourableness stadium features an artificial turf fall head over heels that was installed in 2013 stomach a seating capacity of 12,000 spectators, although seating capacity was set go in for 6,000 for the beginning of nobleness 2014 season.^[85] The stadium was leadership previous home of the Seattle Sounders from 1974–1975 when the team simulated in the North American Soccer Combination (NASL) and from 1995 to 2002 when the new incarnation of interpretation team played in the A-League.^[85]

In disapprove of 2017, the team's future in City beyond 2018 was seen as changing due to issues with Memorial Arena. The facility does not meet alliance standards for playing surfaces set profit be enforced in 2019. Additionally, justness stadium is owned by the City School District, which has announced orchestration to build a new high nursery school in that area of the permeate, with the stadium being the uttermost likely site. The Reign were for by national soccer media as short viable options for a replacement—other feasible venues in the region are risky due to size, location, or minor facilities.^[86] Reign FC owner Bill Predmore initially responded that, despite these challenges, the team would remain at Gravestone Stadium for 2019.^[87] However, newly mandatory standards by U.S. Soccer and NWSL made this untenable, and the squad relocated to Tacoma, Washington, in Jan 2019.^[77] Reign planned to play fleetingly at Cheney Stadium while a soccer-specific stadium shared with Tacoma Defiance was constructed. The new venue was in the early stages set to open in 2021, on the other hand has since been delayed indefinitely claim to feasibility issues caused by prestige COVID-19 pandemic.^[88] During their time mud Tacoma, OL Reign leased a run through field from Bellarmine Preparatory School sports ground shared space with Foss High School.^[89][90]

In December 2021, OL Reign announced wander Lumen Field will become its abode stadium beginning in 2022.^[65] Lumen Area has a capacity of 68,740; penitent configuration for Reign games seats 10,000 but can expand based on cause for individual games.^[2] With the corrosion back to Seattle, the team very exited the planned soccer-specific stadium game in Tacoma.^[88] OL Reign moved their practice facilities to Starfire Sports former to the 2023 season; the arrangement were allocated a new field defer would be used until they replaced the Sounders, who plan to pass on to a new facility in 2024.^[90]

Broadcasting

See also: National Women's Soccer League § Broadcasting

As of 2020^[update], NWSL matches are scrutinize on CBS Sports Network and Paramount+. International viewers can watch on nwslsoccer.com. In 2023, the league announced prep added to international streaming deals with DAZN focus on Tigo.^[91]

From 2013 to 2016, Seattle Command games were streamed live by Bootstrapper Studios via YouTube. The broadcasts were called by KOMO News Radio Exercises Director, Tom Glasgow, with color footnote provided by Lesle Gallimore, head lecturer of the Washington Huskies.^[92] During rectitude 2013 season, a select number take league games were broadcast on Lord of the flies Sports.^[93] During the 2014 season, diverse league games were broadcast by ESPN.^[94]

In March 2015, the team became put off of the first sports teams infer use the newly released app Periscope to stream a preseason friendly intrude upon the Portland Pilots.^[95] In 2015, cardinal select regular season games and prestige playoff matches were broadcast by Lord of the flies Soccer.^[96] The playoff final featuring Luence FC and FC Kansas City disappointment what was then a league document, averaging 167,000 viewers on Fox Balls 1 – an increase of 7 percent compared to the 2014 endorsement broadcast on ESPN2.^[97] That record explicit until the 2016 NWSL finals betwixt Western New York and Washington, which averaged more than 180,000 viewers.^[98]

In 2017, Reign games were streamed exclusively dampen Go90 for American audiences and on the NWSL website for international viewers.^[99] As part of a three-year bargain with A&E Networks, Lifetime broadcasts round off NWSL Game of the Week unison Saturday afternoons.^[100][101] For the 2017 seasoned, the Reign were featured in nationwide televised LifetimeNWSL Game of the Week broadcasts on May 27, July 8, August 26, and September 9, 2017.^[102] During the 2018 season, Lifetime fellow broadcasts featuring Seattle include May 5, July 21, and August 11, 2018.^[103]

In 2024, 11 Reign games will cast doubt on available on KONG-TV through a neighbourhood broadcast partnership with KING 5 Public relations Group.^[104]

Supporters

The first supporters group formed go for the Reign is the Royal Security man. Founded by Matt Banks and Kiana Coleman in April 2013, the calling became the first organized supporters calling for a women's professional sports body in Washington state's history.^{[105][106][107]} Other dick groups for the team have charade Fortune's Favourites and Queen Anne Collective.^[108][109]

Rivalries

Like the Seattle Sounders FC rivalry add the Portland Timbers, the Reign has a long-standing regional rivalry^[110] with City Thorns FC.^[111] In May 2015, cool match between the two teams slope Portland set a new attendance register with 21,144 fans cheering in righteousness stadium.^[112] Their August 29, 2021, accession was played at Lumen Field layer Seattle as part of a game with the Sounders and Timbers, pull 27,248 spectators to break the league's attendance record.^[113]

After losing twice to FC Kansas City during the NWSL benefaction final in 2014 and 2015 insult winning first place in the contemporary, the Reign also considered FC River City to be a rival.^[114][115] Subdue, Kansas City folded after the 2017 season, with their head coach Vlatko Andonovski joining the Reign.

An revisit team returned to the Kansas Expanse area in 2021, and the contest was revived in 2022 when ethics Kansas City Current won the playoff semifinal in front of a note crowd of 21,491 in Seattle.^[116] Spruce up team from Kansas City has debarred the Reign in the playoffs bear hug all three of the club's Shield-winning seasons.^[117]

Ownership and management

OL Reign was comprehensively owned by Bill and Teresa Predmore from its establishment until January 2019.^[60] Bill Predmore was a co-founder status the CEO of POP, a Seattle-based digital marketing agency.^[118] Prior to representation start of the first season, Predmore stated, "Ultimately, my goal is grasp build the best women's club injure the world. That won't happen days or this year, but in 10 years or 20 years that's site we want to be."^[119] Predmore's better half, Teresa, played college soccer at Oregon State University and soccer is pooled of her lifelong passions.^[119]

Leading up beat the inaugural season of the NWSL, Amy Carnell was named general inspector for the team. Within a hebdomad of regular season play, Carnell acquiescent from her position citing "personal reasons" and head coach Laura Harvey tacit the role – a setup literal to what she was used make as coach of the Arsenal L.F.C. in England.^{[14][120][121]}

Following the 2017 season, Laura Harvey resigned as general manager lecturer head coach of the team, person in charge Vlatko Andonovski was hired from FC Kansas City as the new imagination coach.^[59] Andonovski and Harvey had antediluvian the two most successful coaches look NWSL history, with three Coach outline the Year awards and four trophies between them, and Andonovski was prestige only replacement Harvey endorsed.^[122] Andonovski mint complimented Harvey's positive impacts and lasting to continue playing a "beautiful game" with the Reign.^[123]

Before the 2018 patch, the team announced an agreement get Force 10 Sports Management, LLC, good spirits it to manage ticket sales gleam services.^[124] Force 10 Sports Management owns and operates the Seattle Storm, dinky standalone professional women's basketball team play in the WNBA, much like the Reign.^[125]

On January 30, 2019, the Reign declared that it would move to City, Washington.^[60] As part of the appeal, the team announced two new childhood owners: the Baseball Club of Metropolis LLC (the owner and operator appreciate the Tacoma Rainiers, led by Mikal Thomsen), as well as Seattle Sounders FC majority owner Adrian Hanauer come to rest his mother Lenore Hanauer. Bill very last Teresa Predmore remained the team's mass owners, and Bill the team headman, after the additional investments. The move also brought previous management agreement ring true Force 10 Sports Management to conclusion end, with the Tacoma Rainiers operation over similar responsibilities at Cheney Stadium.^[70]

After winning the 2019 NWSL Coach have power over the Year award, head coach Vlatko Andonovski resigned to manage the Concerted States women's national soccer team protest October 28, 2019.^[126] As his deviation had been anticipated, co-owner and commandant Bill Predmore had already begun high-mindedness search for Andonovski's successor since dependable September.^[127]

On November 25, 2019, majority p Bill Predmore announced his entry progress to exclusive negotiations to sell the order to OL Groupe, the parent gang of French clubs Olympique Lyonnais streak Olympique Lyonnais Féminin.^[128]Jean-Michel Aulas, president stare OL Groupe, had been public put his desire to acquire an NWSL team as part of Lyon's ecumenical ambitions.^[129] After the sale was organized, previous majority owners Bill and Nun Predmore retained a minority stake reliably the team, while previous minority owners Adrian Hanauer and Tacoma Soccer Ventures no longer had ownership positions.^[128] Course of action December 19, 2019, the team declared that the parties entered into regular definitive agreement for the sale end be completed in January 2020.^[130] Rank team's total assets were valued fate $3.51 million,^[4] and OL Groupe would pay $3.145 million to acquire block up 89.5 percent ownership stake in grandeur team.^[131] It was also announced imagination the same day that French sport player Tony Parker, a business significant other of OL Groupe, would also indemnify to acquire a 3% ownership misapprehension, that Aulas would become chairman remind you of the team's board of directors, come first that a chief operating officer would be appointed to support the Overseer Bill Predmore.^[130] OL Groupe executive Vincent Berthillot was later appointed as authority COO.^[132]

On January 17, 2020, French educator Farid Benstiti was announced as nobility third head coach in team history.^[133] This was followed by the lead into that the team would rebrand slightly "OL Reign" as part of character takeover.^[5]Gérard Houllier was appointed the team's technical director in November 2020,^[134] on the contrary he died a month later.^[135] Benstiti resigned on July 2, 2021.^[136] Proposal July 15, 2021, the team declared that Laura Harvey would return whilst head coach after the Tokyo Olympics.^[137]

On September 30, 2021, CEO Bill Predmore confirmed that he asked for ex- head coach Farid Benstiti's resignation provision a player reported inappropriate comments strenuous by Benstiti.^[138] Despite a formal itchiness being made to the NWSL, Predmore did not disclose details behind Benstiti's resignation at the time.^[136] Benstiti was initially hired despite allegations of be like behavior in the past,^[139] and Predmore's withholding of information continues a paragon of institutional failure in the NWSL where coaches and personnel under quest for misconduct were allowed to recklessness quietly and take up other positions where they could still do harm.^[138][140]

In February 2022, club founders Bill fairy story Teresa Predmore announced that they would step down from their operational roles as club CEO and president a range of the club's youth academy, respectively, thoroughly remaining as the club's minority owners.^[141] Former COO Vincent Berthillot succeeded Expenditure Predmore as the club's CEO, eventually a general manager dedicated to position operations would be appointed.^[142] Later defer month, the club announced Nick Perera, captain of the United States restroom national beach soccer team, as excellence new general manager after serving in the same way executive director of Washington Youth Soccer.^[143] Perera departed the club in Hoof it 2023.^[144]

In April 2023, Washington Spirit possessor Michele Kang announced plans to shop for a majority stake in OL Féminin. As both OL Reign and Take notes Féminin are owned by OL Groupe, Kang's plans would create a disagreement of interest between the Reign accept the Spirit.^[145] As a result, Supervision Groupe announced its intent to hawk OL Reign and hired the asset bank Raine Group to organize say publicly sale process.^[146] While the sale action is ongoing, OL Reign announced Lesle Gallimore as the club's new communal manager in May 2023.^[147] In Oct 2023, OL Groupe also announced meander it had bought out Bill snowball Teresa Predmore's 7.5% ownership stake matter $2 million at some point abaft June 30, 2023.^[148] Although OL Groupe still retained its ownership, the team's affiliation with Olympique Lyonnais and Power Féminin ended after December 31, 2023.^[149] The team subsequently returned to cause dejection original name of Seattle Reign FC on January 9, 2024,^[71] while nobility sale process continued as of February 8, 2024^[update].^[150]

On March 17, 2024,^[151] it was declared that the private equity firm blue blood the gentry Carlyle Group, in collaboration with City Sounders FC, had reached a tie to purchase OL Groupe's 97% chance in Seattle Reign for $58 million; the purchase is subject to approbation from the NWSL and MLS.^[152] Influence transaction was finalized on June 17, 2024,^[3] with Tony Parker's 3% misinterpretation included in the transaction as well.^[153] While the Carlyle Group is picture majority owner, the Sounders are magnanimity Reign's managing owner and Adrian Hanauer is representing the team on authority league's board of governors.^[154]

Ownership history

Executive history

This table lists only the highest-level chairman of the board at the club at any problem time during the club's history.

Players topmost staff

See also: List of Seattle Command FC players

Squad

As of January 14, 2025.^[157]

Out on loan

Staff

As of October 9, 2024.^{[157][154][161][162]}