Soccer on ESPN+: FC Daily | Futbol Americas This spring, we polled 26 of the brightest minds in women's soccer - from coaches to executives to journalists - about their standout performers across the 2021-22 season, and we arrived at the definitive ranking of the top 50 women's players in 2022. To mark a year of achievement we present ESPN FC Women's Rank 2022. July will mark the start of the Africa Women Cup of Nations, the CONCACAF W Championship, the Oceania Women's Nations Cup, the Women's European Championship and the Copa America Femenina. In less than a week, one of the most exciting months in women's soccer will begin. Soccer agreed collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with the United States men's and United States women's national teams that for the first time include equal pay.Īnd 2022 stands to get better. There were victories that were larger than the game, too. Of the 10 teams that participated in the 2021 season, eight have been roiled by allegations of sexual misconduct, verbal and emotional abuse, harassment and retaliation - all in the past 12 months. In the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), it's been a year of reckoning. Make picks throughout the Women's European Championship for a shot at $5,000.

That's because Lyon, winners of six of the previous seven European Cup finals, sprang a surprise by upsetting their heavily favored opponents. Unfortunately for the Blaugrana, it won't remembered fondly in the Catalan capital. And they treated us to one of the most entertaining and unpredictable Champions League finals you'll ever see.

They made it a domestic double by adding the Copa del Reina, winning six of six in that competition. They won Spain's Primera Division Femenina by winning 30 games in the 30-game season. They set the game's attendance record, drawing 91,648 to the Camp Nou for a European tie against Wolfsburg. It's hard to look past the achievements of Barcelona.

A Fire Within by Kathleen Morgan