In her first season with Gotham, one player has become a champion just like her father.

Drawing an average of more than a million TV viewers for the first time, the NWSL smashed its all-time single-game TV audience record during its championship game Saturday. Airing in primetime on CBS, the match — a 1-0 win for Gotham FC over the Washington Spirit in front of a sellout crowd of 18,000 at PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif. — delivered an average of 1.184 million viewers, a new high for any NWSL game airing on TV. That represents a 22 percent increase over the 2024 title game, which s

NEW YORK — Less than two days after defeating the Washington Spirit 1-0 in the NWSL Championship in San Jose, Calif., Gotham FC were back in New York City, rolling down the streets of lower Manhattan. On Sunday, they stood on the top of two blue buses that crawled down Broadway as Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” blared from its speakers, following a female-led drumline that guided them through the Canyon of Heroes. Fans draped in Gotham’s 2025 championship scarves cheered on their club as blue and whit