The 2025 Gotham FC season was the team's 16th as a professional women's soccer team and their 12th participating in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top tier of women's soccer in the United States. Finishing 8th in the regular season, they entered the playoffs as the lowest-ranked contender. They went on to win their second NWSL championship in three years.
In continental play, they won the 2024âÂÂ25 CONCACAF W Champions Cup. In the 2025âÂÂ26 competition, they qualified for the knockout phase by finishing second in their group. By winning the 2025 NWSL championship, they qualified for the 2026âÂÂ27 edition.
In 2024, Gotham FC finished the NWSL season in 3rd place and with a record. The team advanced past the quarterfinals stage of the playoffs with a 2âÂÂ1 win over Portland Thorns FC before being eliminated in the semifinals by the Washington Spirit.
Gotham competed in three other competitions, kicking off 2024 with a defeat to 2023 shield winners San Diego Wave FC in the one-match NWSL Challenge Cup. The team later competed in the first edition of the NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup, where they made it to the championship match before falling at the hands of the Kansas City Current. Finally, Gotham FC advanced to the knockout stage of the CONCACAF W Champions Cup, played in May 2025.
Gotham FC began preseason by announcing a flurry of departures in early December 2024, including defender Sam Hiatt and midfielders Maitane López and Delanie Sheehan. All three players later signed with fellow NWSL clubs as free agents. On December 10, 2024, the club announced its end-of-year contract statuses. Five players were listed as out of contract: Michelle Betos, Mandy Freeman, McCall Zerboni, and forwards Svava Rós Guðmundsdóttir, Midge Purce, and Jéssica Silva. While Freeman and Silva both re-signed with Gotham, the club announced that veteran midfielder Zerboni would not be returning to Gotham in 2025.
Gotham continued to make roster moves in the form of trades as the new year approached. On December 20, the club executed a trade with Seattle Reign FC, involving the move of Lynn Williams and Cassie Miller to Seattle while also obtaining midfielder Jaelin Howell. Another attacking departure occurred one week later, with Yazmeen Ryan being traded to the Houston Dash in exchange for a record-high sum of allocation money.
Several players were subsequently signed, filling in the gaps left behind by the club's departures. As part of the NWSL's transition from a college draft to free agency, Gotham signed Sarah Schupansky, Lilly Reale, Khyah Harper, and Ryan Campbell to their first professional contracts. The club also signed international players Stella Nyamekye and Gabi Portilho in late December. On January 17, the club traded goalkeeper Abby Smith to the Houston Dash for $20,000 in intra-league transfer funds.
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