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The 2019 Sky Blue FC season is the team's tenth season as a professional women's soccer team. Sky Blue FC plays in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States.
The 2020 National Women's Soccer League season was the eighth season of the National Women's Soccer League, the top division of women's soccer in the United States. Including the NWSL's two professional predecessors, Women's Professional Soccer (2009–2011) and the Women's United Soccer Association (2001–2003), it was the 14th overall season of FIFA and USSF-sanctioned top division women's soccer in the United States.
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References
- ↑ "Sky Blue FC Announces 2020 NWSL Fall Series Roster". Sky Blue FC. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 5 September 2020.
- ↑ "Cassidy Benintente - Women's Soccer". Rutgers University Athletics.
