The 2024 Bay FC season was

Bay FC Bay Football Club is an American professional Association football, soccer team based in the San Francisco Bay Area that competes in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The team began play in the NWSL as an expansion team in the 2024 Nat ...

's inaugural season as a professional women's soccer team. It played in the

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, where it finished the season in seventh place to qualify for the

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and was eliminated in the quarterfinals by the second-seeded

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Background

On April 4, 2023, the NWSL formally awarded one of its two planned 2024 expansion teams to a Bay Area group led by former US Women's National Team players

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Leslie Osborne Leslie Marie Osborne (born May 27, 1983) is a retired American soccer defensive midfielder who last played for the Chicago Red Stars in the NWSL in 2013. She is a former member of the United States women's national soccer team and previously pl ...

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, and

Aly Wagner Alyson Kay Wagner (born August 10, 1980) is an American sports broadcaster and retired soccer midfielder who was a member of the United States women's national soccer team. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time FIFA Women's World ...

, backed by majority owners and San Francisco-based investment firm

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. The expansion fee was reported to be $53 million.

Team

Squad

Competitions

Preseason

Friendlies

Regular season

Regular season standings

Results summary

Results by matchday

Playoffs

Bay FC finished the regular season in 7th place and qualified for the

NWSL playoffs The National Women's Soccer League playoffs (or NWSL playoffs) are a single-elimination tournament among eight teams in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) of the United States. The final round of the playoffs is the NWSL Championship. Si ...

as the seventh-seeded of eight teams.

Matches

NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup

Statistics

Appearances

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Goals

Assists

Clean sheets

Disciplinary record

Transactions

2024 NWSL Expansion Draft

The 2024 NWSL Expansion Draft was held on December 15, 2023.

2024 NWSL Draft

Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. The

2024 NWSL Draft The 2024 NWSL Draft presented by Ally was the twelfth annual meeting of National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) franchises to select from a list of amateur players above the age of 18 playing in the United States who exhausted, lost, or renounced ...

was held on December 14, 2023.

Re-signings

Transfers in

Transfers out

Injury listings

Preseason trialists

Trialists are non-rostered invitees during preseason and are not automatically signed. Bay released their preseason roster on January 23, 2024.