Full Time: A show about women's soccer

The first-ever UEFA Women's Champions League Swiss-style league phase is in the books, but was the inaugural campaign in the new format a success? On this edition of Full Time, host Jillian Sakovitz is joined by The Athletic's Tamerra Griffin to analyze how the opening round of the 2025-26 UWCL played out, from looking at the teams that impressed to those that crashed out, and also whether the new...

On this edition of Full Time, Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan unpack the return o f Sophia Wilson to the Portland Thorns and what it means for her to exercise her record contract option for the 2026 NWSL season. Why did she choose to stay with the Thorns? What do we know about her record-breaking new deal? And, how does this contract for Wilson affect the ongoing negotiations between the NWSL and...

The NWSL is at a crossroads. As the league and the Washington Spirit hash out the ways to keep Trinity Rodman, a new era of superstar spending, salary cap rules and competition with the global market could be on the horizon. On this edition of Full Time, host Meg Linehan is joined by The Athletic's senior writers Paul Tenorio and John Hollinger to reflect on how other U.S. sports leagues have hand...

The NWSL is at risk of losing one of its biggest superstars. But what exactly is holding back the Washington Spirit from re-signing Trinity Rodman? On Monday's edition Full Time, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic's Meg Linehan to break down the ongoing contract saga that unfolded last week. Why hasn't the NWSL accepted the Spirit's proposed offer to Rodman? Why is the NWSL players' a...

On a very special episode of the Full Time podcast, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan are on the podcast together for the final time in 2025. To commemorate the occasion, Tamerra and Meg rank their Top 3 moments of 2025 while also ranking the three things they are most hyped about coming up in 2026 . After that, the duo answers listeners' questions in one last mailbag to close out the season....

This week, the USWNT closed out 2025 with two shutouts against Italy. But what did we learn from the two stellar performances in those games, and how do we evaluate this year as a whole for Emma Hayes's team? On this week's Full Time Review, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic's Tamerra Griffin, who was in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on Monday night to witness the USWNT's 2-0 win over It...

For the first time, the Full Time podcast hosted a live event at the 2025 NWSL Championship in San Jose, CA , where U.S. women's national team legends Briana Scurry and Aly Wagner discussed how the past can shape the future in women's soccer. Hosted by The Athletic's Meg Linehan and Tamerra Griffin, the conversation touched on the rise and fall of the Women's United Soccer Association , off the ba...

It's a blockbuster episode of Full Time, loaded with special guests and legends of women's soccer. Recorded live from the San Jose Civic in the days leading up to the 2025 NWSL Championship , hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan conducted four wide-ranging interviews touching on all parts of the game. Joining the Full Time pod are former Orlando Pride general manager Haley Carter , 2013 NWSL MVP...

NJ/NY Gotham FC are the 2025 NWSL Champions. Seemingly, against all odds, the lowest-ever seeded champions just kept on showing up. And now, with two NWSL titles and a Concacaf title across three seasons, is it time to debate if this Gotham team is turning into a dynasty? On a special episode of Full Time Review, recorded at PayPal Park in San Jose , Meg Linehan, and Tamerra Griffin analyze all th...

Live from the San Jose Civic, it's a very special episode of the Full Time podcast building up to the 2025 NWSL Championship Final in the Bay Area. Hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan take you inside NWSL Awards and Media Day , from the opening two days of events in San Jose, and then dig into commissioner Jess Berman's league address, and the ongoing debates around the salary cap and whether Tr...

NJ/NY Gotham FC and the Washington Spirit are heading to the NWSL Championship Final. On this week's Full Time Review, Jillian Sakovits is joined by Meg Linehan, and Melanie Anzidei to break down the weekend's dramatic NWSL semifinals. The pod discusses Jaedyn Shaw's buzzer-beater in Orlando and how the 8th-seeded Gotham continued their unlikely journey at the expense of the defending champions, t...

The NWSL is coming to Atlanta . Following The Athletic's Asli Pelit's report on Sunday, on Tuesday, it was officially announced that the capital of Georgia will be home to the 17th NWSL team in 2028. So, on this week's Full Time Focus , host Jillian Sakovits gets into what it means for Atlanta to join the NWSL . Jill talks to Pelit about breaking the story and the business side of Atlanta's record...

How do you measure Most Valuable Player? Who deserves Coach of the Year? What sort of midfielder is worthy of Midfielder of the Year? On this week's Full Time podcast, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan debate the 2025 NWSL Awards and Best XI. The duo unpacks every category, examining the league's shortlisted players, as well as what their own formulas are judging and voting. Also, they discuss...

For the first time in NWSL history, a No.8 defeated the top seed in the playoffs. But this wasn't just any top seed. This was a record-breaking Kansas City Current team that hadn't lost at home for 490 days. So, did NJ/NY Gotham FC pull off the biggest upset in NWSL history? On this week's Full Time Review, Jillian Sakovits is joined by Tamerra Griffin, who was in Kansas City, to break down that e...

The 2025 NWSL Playoffs are here, and they’re bigger than ever. And that means, on this episode of Full Time Focus , host Jillian Sakovits is joined by not one but two special guests preparing to kick off the postseason. First up, Jill talks to NWSL veteran and Gotham FC co-captain Mandy Freeman. How is Gotham preparing for another underdog playoff run on the road? What does it mean to go play the...

Leaves are falling, soup season is upon us, and the NWSL Playoffs are back! On this week's Full Time podcast, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan break down the entire 2025 NWSL Playoffs, from the strengths and weaknesses of the eight teams left competing for the Championship, to how each quarterfinal is poised, and which teams will advance. Who are the key players and matchups? Will we see any...

On a dramatic Decision Day, Racing Louisville has clinched a spot in the NWSL playoffs for the first time in team history. But how did Bev Yanez's team pull it iff on the final day of the regular season and what does it mean for the players, the coach and the fanbase? On this week's Full Time Review, Tamerra Griffin is joined by Melanie Azidei and Asli Pelit to analyze all the drama from the NWSL'...

In 2011, after the Women's Professional Soccer league folded, Bev Yanez flew to Japan to hold onto her dreams of being a soccer player. That journey changed her life and set her on the path to being the person she is today. On this week's Full Time Review, Jillian Sakovits sits down with Yanez for a special feature interview about her journey from National Women's Soccer League player to head coac...

The U.S. women's national team's October window has come to an end. But what did we learn from the trio of friendlies against Portugal and New Zealand ? On this week's Full Time podcast, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan get into the USWNT's October friendlies, the players that stood out, the importance of giving the young players more minutes, why it may be more interesting to see the USWNT l...

Just three days after their worst performance under head coach Emma Hayes, the U.S. women's national team burst back into life with a rejuvenating 3-1 win over Portugal . What made it all the sweeter was the USA's young stars, like Olivia Moultrie and Jaedyn Shaw , stealing the show in that win. On this week's Full Time Review, Jillian Sakovits catches up with Melanie Azidei and Asli Pelit from Co...

Did the USWNT just put in its worst performance under head coach Emma Hayes? On this week's Full Time Focus , host Jillian Sakovits is joined by The Athletic's Henry Bushnell to unpack the USWNT's 2-1 defeat to Portugal on Thursday night. The duo break down what went wrong for the USWNT, who does the blame should fall on and whether there is any panic in the squad. Henry also gets into what the at...

For months now, U.S. women's national team head coach Emma Hayes has stated that she wanted to identify her core group for the 2027 World Cup cycle by the October 2025 international window. Well, here we are. On this week's Full Time podcast, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan get out their crystal balls and debate their first drafts of what they believe will be Hayes's USWNT roster in two summ...

The NWSL and soccer world held their collective breaths when Temwa Chawinga went down in Saturday's upset defeat of the KC Current by the Houston Dash. What happened in Texas? And, what does it mean for the MVP frontrunner and the Current, by far number one team in the country? On this week's Full Time Review, Jillian Sakovits and Producer Theo get into the scenes that saw Chawinga limp off and th...

On this week's episode of Full Time Focus, host Jillian Sakovits is joined by Meg Linehan to unpack the latest U.S. women's national team roster that dropped this week ahead of three upcoming friendlies. The return of Trinity Rodman to the USWNT is now in doubt after an injury midweek playing for the Washington Spirit . Jillian and Meg get into the latest reporting from The Athletic about Rodman's...

One of the most iconic women's soccer players of the 20th century is hanging up her boots. Christen Press has announced she is retiring at the end of the 2025 NWSL season. So, on this week's Full Time podcast, hosts Tamerra Griffin and Meg Linehan dig into Press' career, from Stanford , to Sweden , to the NWSL , to winning two World Cups with the USWNT and then finally returning home to help launc...