2009 Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs

none August 2023 The 2009 WPS Playoffs were the postseason to Women's Professional Soccer's 2009 Season, that started on August 15 and culminated on August 22 at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. Format The top four WPS teams, based on their regular season finishes, qualified for the playoffs. In the First Round, the third-ranked team hosted the fourth-ranked team. The winner of that match advances to the Super Semifinal, where they traveled to the second-ranked team. Finally, the regular season first-ranked team hosted the winner of the Super Semifinal in the WPS Championship match. This format, fairly unusual in the American sports landscape, preserves the knockout-style postseason most American sports fans are familiar with, while also highly favoring the regular season first-ranked team. Standings PlaceTeamGPWLTGFGAGDPoints1Los Angeles Sol2012352710 +17412Saint Louis Athletica2010641915 +4333Washington Freedom208753232 0294Sky Blue FC207851920 -1265Boston Breakers207941820 -2256Chicago Red Stars2051051825 -7207FC Gold Pride2041061728 -1118 Bracket First Round Super Semifinal WPS Final 3 Washington Freedom 1 4 Sky Blue FC 2 2 Saint Louis Athletica 0 4 Sky Blue FC 1 1 Los Angeles Sol 0 4 Sky Blue FC 1 Results First round August 15, 2009 4:00 pm EDT Washington Freedom 1 – 2 Sky Blue FC De Vanna 79 Kai 56Francielle 85 Maryland SoccerPlex, Germantown, Maryland 4,217 Daniel Fitzgerald Report Super Semifinal August 19, 2009 6:00 PM CDT Saint Louis Athletica 0 – 1 Sky Blue FC Logterman 90 Dowling 30Schnur 67Kai 78 Soccer Park, Fenton, Missouri 5,064 Ted Unkel Report WPS Championship August 22, 2009 1:00 PM PDT Los Angeles Sol 0 – 1 Sky Blue FC O'Reilly 16 The Home Depot Center, Carson, California 7,218 Kari Seitz Report _Sol 00235D 00235D 00235D 00235D 00235D Los Angeles Sol_Whitespikes FF7E00 FF7E00 FF7E00 FF7E00 FFFFFF Sky Blue FC LOS ANGELES SOL: GK 23 CAN Karina LeBlancDF 22 USA Manya MakoskiDF 11 USA Brittany Bock 52DF 3 USA Allison Falk 0 27DF 14 USA Stephanie CoxMF 6 USA McCall Zerboni 36MF 4 USA Aly Wagner 63MF 7 USA Shannon Boxx (c)MF 8 JPN Aya MiyamaFW 10BRA MartaFW 9CHN Han Duan 79Substitutes:GK 1USA Val HendersonDF 2USA Keri SanchezDF 19CAN Sharolta Nonen 36DF 21SWE Johanna FriskMF 17USA Liz BogusMF 18USA Katie Larkin 63FW 16USA Lyndsey Patterson 79Manager: ENG Abner RogersSKY BLUE FC: GK 23 USA Jenni BranamDF 17 USA Keeley DowlingDF 4 USA Jen BuczkowskiDF 3 USA Christie Rampone (c)DF 12 USA Meghan SchnurMF 20 USA Kacey WhiteMF 10 USA Yael AverbuchMF 24 BRA FrancielleFW 9USA Heather O'Reilly (MVP) 84FW 11BRA Rosana 72FW 6 USA Natasha Kai 68Substitutes:GK 22USA Cori AlexanderDF 38USA Julianne SitchMF 7CAN Kelly ParkerMF 13USA Noelle Keselica 84MF 14AUS Collette McCallum 72FW 15USA Katie HookerFW 16USA Kerri Hanks 68Manager:USA Christie Rampone MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Marlene Duffy Veronica Perez Fourth official: Margaret DomkaMATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions. Media coverage Both the First Round and the WPS Championship was viewable on Fox Sports Network, while the Super Semifinal was on Fox Soccer Channel. Also, all three matches were webcast on the WPS website. Notes and references See also 2009 Women's Professional Soccer season Women's Professional Soccer Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs, 2009 Category:Women's sports in California Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs Category:Soccer competitions in Carson, California Category:2000s in Carson, California Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs