Last week, I asked you for your time — and over 1,000 of you willingly obliged by filling out our NWSL Supporters Survey. I’ve spent days breaking down the results and reading every single comment you left.



If there’s one theme from all the answers I read, it’s hope. Hope that the NWSL can grow, that it can survive all the challenges you described, and that it can become a larger part of our sports landscape in the United States. As frustrated as some of you might be when it comes to who your team hired as its new head coach or the timeliness of the schedule release, ultimately, you only want the best for the NWSL and its supporters.



Let’s break the results down. But before we do, I just want to issue a disclaimer that I am a former literature major — any shortcomings can be linked back to the fact I swapped majors after barely surviving my college stats class. In total, 1,069 of you filled out the survey, but not every person...