Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The NWSL is back! To kick off the 2026 season, we saw 19 goals, two red cards and not a single tie in the first-ever 16-team and eight-match opening weekend. On this episode of Full Time Review , host Jillian Sakovits is joined by Melanie Anzidei, fresh from criss-crossing the East Coast as she covered two games in-person in less than 24 hours, and Producer Theo to unpack all the top storylines fr...

With the start of the NWSL season upon us, Theo Lloyd-Hughes and Tamerra Griffin join Jillian Sakovits to break down the biggest storylines on and off the pitch. They analyze the entrance of two new expansion teams in Denver FC and Boston Legacy, whether we'll see a repeat performance from the 2025 shield winners, KC Current, and if this is finally the year for the Washington Spirit. They also tal...

The first-ever 16-team NWSL season is almost here. But who are these new 2026 expansion teams, Boston Legacy and Denver Summit ? On this special expansion-focused episode of Full Time , host Jillian Sakovits takes you inside the Legacy and the Summit, and their journeys to joining the NWSL. Hear one-on-one interviews with Legacy head coach Filipa Patão and Summit head coach Nick Cushing, breaking...

The 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil, once a shimmering mirage, is now taking shape into something almost tangible. The Athletic made its  first U.S. women’s national team roster prediction  back in October 2025, and now, with six international windows to go until the tournament roster announcement, it is time to jump back into roster predictions with our 2.0 edition. On this episod...

Emma Hayes called the U.S. women’s national team’s 1-0 win over Canada in the SheBelieves Cup on Wednesday night one of her “favorite performances” by the team. But why was the victory so impressive? Which players impressed? And do the selection decisions made by Hayes show us who the USWNT’s core group is? On this episode of Full Time , host Jillian Sakovits is joined by Melanie Anzidei and Produ...

The U.S. women’s national team scrapped its way to a 2-0 win over Argentina in the opening match of the 2026 SheBelieves Cup. But what did Emma Hayes’s team learn from a match where they only generated six shots and were fouled 21 times? On this episode of Full Time , host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic’s Tamerra Griffin, who was in Nashville, Tennessee, for the opening night of the Sh...

Family can shape us. For U.S. women’s national team forward Jameese Joseph , the pride she feels playing soccer is the result of the hard work and dedication of her parents, who put her in a position to be great. On this episode of Full Time , Tamerra Griffin is joined by Joseph, from the USWNT’s training camp at the 2026 SheBelieves Cup, to talk about her journey from college to the Chicago Stars...

While the U.S. women’s national team has been playing friendly after friendly, plenty of the rest of the world has already started their qualification paths to the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Brazil. So, what is the state of World Cup qualifying around the world in women’s soccer? What do people need to know about the differences in how the six FIFA confederations handle their qualifiers? How c...

The start of the 2026 NWSL season is just three weeks away! So, now is a great time to get to know some of the new faces in the league. On this episode of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by three exciting rookies preparing for their first professional seasons. First up, highly-rated centerback Elise Evans opened up about her family connections to Stanford , stepping into Naomi Girma’s s...

After 13 years and 19 trophies, last week Chelsea parted ways with general manager Paul Green . After a wild few weeks for the Blues, it’s time to wonder if the reigning Women’s Super League Champions are in crisis? On this episode of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic’s Cerys Jones and Megan Feringa, who last week reported on Green’s departure and what is going on inside C...

In one of the most blockbuster offseason moves in recent NWSL history, Claire Hutton and Croix Bethune both had million-dollar transfers on Wednesday. So, where do these moves leave the players, their respective clubs, and their U.S. women’s national team ambitions? On this episode of Full Time, hosts Jillian Sakovits and Tamerra Griffin react to Wednesday’s shocking double transfer, which saw Hut...

Cat Macario has been left off Chelsea’s squad list for the UEFA Women’s Champions League knockout rounds. So, what does this say about the future of the U.S. women’s national team forward and her Chelsea contract that will expire in the summer? On this episode of Full Time, hosts Jillian Sakovits and Tamerra Griffin break down Macario’s ongoing absence from the Chelsea squad and what it means for...

The winter transfer window closed in Europe shut this week, but who won the window? And, does it really matter? Why do we obsess so much over transfers and transfer windows? Do they matter? On this episode of Full Time, hosts Jillian Sakovits and Tamerra Griffin are joined by The Athletic’s Melanie Anzidei to analyze the top transfers from the January transfer window. Who will have the biggest imp...

Arsenal are the inaugural winners of the FIFA Women’s Champions Cup, after defeating Corinthians 3-2 after extra time on Sunday. But does being crowned world inter-continental champions mean anything for the Gunners and their place in global women’s soccer? On this episode of Full Time, Producer Theo is joined by The Athletic’s Charlotte Harpur and Megan Feringa, to analyze the 2026 FIFA Women’s C...

On Thursday, we saw one of the greatest U.S. women’s national team players of all time hang up their cleats.  At age 33, Crystal Dunn has decided to retire from professional soccer. So, on this episode of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic’s Tamerra Griffin and Melanie Anzidei, as well as Claire Watkins from Just Women’s Sports, to unpack what Dunn’s legacy will be now...

In the first of two January friendlies – the least-capped  U.S women’s national team starting XI in 25 years thrashed Paraguay 6-0 at Dignity Health Sports Park. On this episode of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by Melanie Anzidei to break down what we learned from that friendly and Trinity Rodman’s first time walking out as captain of the USWNT. After that, Ayo Oke , who is out w...

The Trinity Rodman contract saga is over. After two months of drama, the U.S. women’s national team forward is staying with the Washington Spirit , signing a new three-year contract to stay with the team through 2028. So, what does this record-breaking contract mean for the payer, the National Women's Soccer League and global women's soccer? On this episode of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits and...

After a record-breaking season, the Kansas City Current made a shock head coaching switch and in came Chris Armas for his first-ever job in professional women's soccer. So, who is this U.S. men's national team Hall of Famer turned MLS coach who has scored one of the biggest club jobs in the women's game? On this episode of Full Time, host Jilian Sakovits sits down for a personal one-on-one intervi...

Manchester City are six points clear at the top of the English Women's Super League table, but they're not stopping there. What does the blockbuster arrival of U.S. women's national team midfielder Sam Coffey, for $875k from the Portland Thorns , mean for City's title aspirations and the rest of the WSL? On this episode of Full Time, Producer Theo is joined by The Athletic's Megan Feringa and Char...

NWSL expansion team Denver Summit got its hometown star, announcing this week that  U.S. captain Lindsey Heaps is headed home this summer. So why did Heaps make the move to swap Champions League to the Centennial State? On this episode of Full Time, The Athletic's Melanie Anzidei sat down with Heaps to go inside the big signing and why the 31-year-old was sold on the Summit and the oppor...

Emma Hayes has announced her first U.S. women's national team roster of 2026 and it looks a bit different from normal. So, what's the method behind this experimental January camp? On this episode of Full Time, Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic's Melanie Anzidei to break down the USWNT's January roster and dive into what we learned from Hayes's press conference on Thursday. What young play...

The NWSL Players' Association has opposed the league's new High Impact Player rule, but what exactly is at the root of the opposition? And, what is the timeline for a resolution? On this episode of Full Time, The Athletic's Tamerra Griffin is joined by the executive director of the NWSLPA, Meghann Burke , to talk through the union's stance and what comes next. What part of the Collective Bargainin...

Last week, the NWSL announced it had introduced a roster mechanism to allow teams to pay certain players up to $1 million above the current salary cap. This new rule would be known as the High Impact Player rule. But within hours of that announcement, the NWSLPA responded by saying it opposed the NWSL’s decision to move forward with the new rule without formally bargaining with the players' associ...

2025 is almost over, so it's time to look back at a remarkable summer of international women's soccer On this special edition of Full Time, re-live the best bits of England's triumph at Women's Euro 2025 in Switzerland , go inside what it was like to be in Morocco covering the 2025 Women's Africa Cup of Nations , and wonder how Marta was able to produce one of t he greatest final performances ever...

If you could, what holiday gift would you get for every NWSL team? A gift that would take care of their biggest need ahead of the 2026 season? On this special holiday edition of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by Tamerra Griffin and Producer Theo to go shopping for every NWSL team and deliver a festive roundtable discussion, hand-picking the perfect thing for all 16 clubs. Which teams h...