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| Full name | Sound Football Club | |||
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| Founded | 2019 | |||
| Stadium | Starfire Sports Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 4,500 | |||
| Owners | Cliff McElroy Lane Smith | |||
| General manager | Jason Prenovost | |||
| Head coach | Scott Ford | |||
| League | Women's Premier Soccer League | |||
| Website | http://sounderswomen.com/ | |||
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Sound Football Club is an American women's soccer team in the Women's Premier Soccer League. Sound FC play its home games at Starfire Sports Stadium in Tukwila, Washington, six miles south of downtown Seattle.
The team was founded in 2000 as Seattle Sounders Select Women, a sister organization of the men's team in the USL First Division. The Select Women competed in the original USL W-League until the league was disbanded in 2015. Following the men's team's departure for Major League Soccer, Mike Jennings, owner of the United Soccer League franchise Tacoma Tide, took over the Sounders Women's ownership. In 2011, Cliff McElroy and Lane Smith of Datec Inc. became majority owners, while Mike Jennings has maintained a minority stake.[1] In January 2020, Seattle Sounders FC terminated its branding agreement, leading to an affiliation and rebrand with Sound FC, a youth soccer club based in Woodinville, Washington.[2]
The team most notable for having signed five U.S. international players, Hope Solo, Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Sydney Leroux, and Stephanie Cox, following the collapse of the Women's Professional Soccer in 2012.[3]
- ^ "United Soccer Leagues (USL)". wleague.uslsoccer.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-10.
- ^ "Sounders Women to re-brand". Sounders Women. January 11, 2020. Retrieved January 13, 2020.
- ^ Bird, Liviu (July 6, 2012). "W-League: Sounders Women Carry the Flag". The New York Times. Retrieved May 14, 2019.