NWSL club NJ/NY Gotham FC calls to mind a well-known bit of comic lore with connections to New York City and New Jersey.
then known as Sky Blue FC, the most ridiculed and censured in the league. Those conditions finally sparked a reckoning in 2018, amid a shocking Sky Blue season that careened off the rails ...
Before Monday, only one other American women's soccer team had received such an honor, when Sky Blue FC – Gotham's precursor – won the Women's Professional Soccer title and was welcomed by ...
It is the first NWSL team to be honored at the White House. The franchise — then called Sky Blue FC as part of the Women’s Professional Soccer league — celebrated a championship with a 2010 ...
NY/NJ Gotham FC actually began life back in 2006, as Jersey Sky Blue, kicking off in 2007 in the semi-pro USL W-League. After one season, the club became known as Sky Blue FC. The organization was ...
NJ/NY Gotham is a pretty new entity having only been established in 2021 after Sky Blue FC was rocked by various scandals in their latter years. The change of name reflected a major administrative ...
The last time a professional women's soccer club was invited to the White House was in 2010, after Sky Blue FC -- the same franchise that rebranded as Gotham in 2021 -- won the inaugural title in ...
Such is the case for NJ/NY Gotham FC. The NWSL side has been a U.S. women's soccer staple since 2006 but got a revamp in 2021 when Sky Blue FC rebranded to "take our club to the next level" and ...
President Biden welcomed the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) champion NJ/NY Gotham FC for a White House reception Monday. It is the first NWSL team to be honored at the White House. The ...