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Reign vs Thorns: By the Numbers (2013- )

NWSL Era – Reign vs Thorns (2013- ) [as of 6/4/2023]

League

Home (form): 8-4-2 GD: 24-12 [LLWWDWWLWWWWDL]

Away: 5-5-3 GD: 13-15 [LLWLWDLDWLWWD]

Neutral 0-0-0 GD: 0-0

Total: 13-9-5 GD: 37-27 [LLLLWWLWWDDLWDWLWWLWWWWWDDL]

Playoffs

Home: 0-0-0 GD: 0-0

Away: 0-1-0 GD: 1-2 [L]

Total: 0-1-0 GD: 1-2 [L]

Challenge Cup (incl. Fall ’20)

Home:  0-1-1 GD: 2-3 [LD]

Away:  1-2-0 GD: 2-6 [LLW]

Neutral: 0-0-1 GD: 0-0 [D]

Total:  1-3-2 GD: 4-9 [DLDW]

Extremes

Record Win: 5-0, Memorial Stadium, 7/27/2014

Record Defeat: 1-4, Providence Park, 9/30/2020

Record Total Goals:  5, Seattle 5:0 Portland, 7/27/2014; Seattle 3:2 Portland, 5/5/2018; Portland 4:1 Seattle, 9/30/2020

Doubles (win home & away same season): 4/2

Top Attendance

Home: 27,278, 8/29/2021

Away: 21,114, (two times, most recently 9/7/2018)

Individual Leaders

Goals: 11–Christine Sinclair (P); 9-Megan Rapinoe (S); 5–Lindsay Horan (P), Beverly Yanez (S); 3–Jess Fishlock (S), Kim Little (S), Jodie Taylor (S), Bethany Balcer (S)

Hat Tricks: None

Multi-Goal Games: 3–Christine Sinclair (P); 2–Megan Rapinoe (S); 1–Lindsay Horan (P), Manon Melis (S), Hayley Raso (P), Beverly Yanez (S)

Assists: 4–Kim Little (S), Jess Fishlock; 3–Naho Kawasumi (S), Beverly Yanez (S), Lindsey Horan (P), Meghan Klingenberger (P); 2–Allie Long (P/S), Megan Rapinoe (S), Mana Shim (P), Christine Sinclair (P), Shirley Cruz (S)

3-Assist Game: None

Multi-Assist Games: 2–Kim Little (S); 1–Theresa Nielsen (S), Lindsey Horan (P)

Shutouts:  4– Haley Kopmeyer (S) 4; 3–Casey Murphy (S), 3–Michelle Betos (P/S); 2–Bella Bixby (P), 2–Karina LeBlanc (P); 1–Nadine Angerer (P), Hope Solo (S), Lydia Williams (S), Adriana Franch (P), Phallon Tullis-Joyce (S)

Appearances: 30-Christine Sinclair (P); 29–Lauren Barnes (S); 24-Jess Fishlock (S); 23–Emily Menges (P), 23–Allie Long (P/S); 22–Meghan Klingenberg (P); 19-Beverly Yanez (S); 17-Lindsey Horan (P); 16-Megan Rapinoe (S), 14–Bethany Balcer (S); 14–Stephanie Cox (S); 13-Keelin Winters (S), 12-Kiersten Dallstream (S), Mana Shim (P) ; 11–Kristen McNabb (S)

Coaching Records:  Cindy Cone (P) 4-0-0; Laura Harvey (S) 8-8-6; Paul Riley (P) 1-4-0; Vlatko Andonovski (S) 5-2-0; Mark Parsons (P) 7-9-5; Farid Benstiti (S) 1-3-1; Rhian Wilkinson (P) 0-1-2; Mike Norris (P) 1-0-0

Sent off: None

Notes

On Aug. 29, 2021, the Reign and Thorns played as part of a doubleheader with Sounders-Timbers at Lumen Field, with the Reign establishing a new NWSL single game attendance record of 27,278.

Washington’s 2015 Top Team Performances

As daylight dwindles on 2015  and we seal this calendar’s time capsule, why not thumb through the best team performances, and determine which will best prevail against the test of time.

Some Washington sides made some remarkable accomplishments in the past year, and here are the best of the best:

SeattleUnitedlogoSeattle United B98 Copa – In April they defeated Crossfire Premier to become the state’s first Dallas Cup champion, and the boys just kept going, winning the state and regional titles before reaching the USYSA U16 final match in July

imgres-6Seattle Reign – First professional club to win back-to-back regular season league championships, going 13-3-4 in NWSL despite losing Hope Solo and Megan Rapinoe to national team duty for the better part of three months

imgres-3Puget Sound women – Despite being eliminated in the Division III second round, the Loggers allowed only three (3) goals in 22 matches and became the state’s first unbeaten (17-0-5) women’s collegiate program Continue reading Washington’s 2015 Top Team Performances