The past decade has seen plenty of growth in American women’s soccer, but with that comes a fractured timeline of professional circuits on U.S. shores. There were two seasons of Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) in 2010 and 2011 before the league collapsed. In 2012, some former WPS players landed on teams playing in the WPSL Elite, a stopgap attempt at a high quality product. Others played for teams in the second-division USL W-League. By 2013, the NWSL was created, and now at the close of the decade we fortunately we have a full seven seasons of it to consider.



All of this makes determining an all-decade team slightly more complicated than it might be for a single, continuous league. But I decided to give it a shot.



Some of the players on this list only ever appeared in one league, But a majority of my best XI of the decade have been around since the WPS days, and have truly made their mark with a decade’s worth of performances to...