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THE WPSL CAPS 2025 ALIGNMENT WITH ADDITION OF HISTORIC CLEVELAND CLUB

 

OKLAHOMA CITY (2/27/2025) — The Women's Premier Soccer League announced today its final expansion for the 2025 season comes out of the Cleveland, Ohio market. Internationals Soccer Club will make its WPSL debut while competing in the Lake Erie Division of the Great Lakes Conference. 

 

Founded in 1976 for post-collegiate players in the region’s highly-competitive adult amateur leagues, Internationals SC launched its women's teams the following year and made an immediate impact on the national women's soccer scene. Since the launch of its youth program in 1985, the club has been recognized as one of the top 25 girls’ programs in the country and finished 2024 ranked 15th in Elite Clubs National League’s (ECNL) national rankings. 

 

 

Club and ECNL Director, Keri Sarver believes joining the WPSL “will continue to be pivotal to the caliber of soccer talent coming out of our club and this region.” Internationals SC has a long history of producing top talent in the region. More than 95 percent of the club's players advance to the NCAA Division I landscape, with others reaching the international and professional level, including youth national team call-ups for USYNT and Trinidad & Tobago, El Salvador, and National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) rosters. 

 

"The level of competition and talent is exactly what we want our athletes to experience," Sarver said. "Joining the WPSL gives Internationals SC an opportunity to train and continue training these players towards their personal best, after high school, through college, and post-grad, too.” 

 

The club’s coaching staff for its inaugural WPSL season features Keri Sarver, Zdravko Popovic, Michael Marich, Mike Payne, Javier Iriat, and Dallas Boyer. Collectively, the staff bring over five decades of coaching experience at the youth, high school and collegiate levels. 

 

The league will unveil the official 2025 schedule in mid-March. The WPSL season runs from late May through mid-July, culminating with the WPSL National Championships in Stillwater, Okla., July 18-20. 

 

 

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For more information about the WPSL, visit wpslsoccer.com.

 

For more information about Internationals SC visit Internationalssoccer.com, or on social media on Instagram, Facebook, X, and Youtube.

 

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About the Women’s Premier Soccer League

 

The WPSL is set to open its 27th season in May 2025 to retain itself as the most tenured women’s league in North America. The WPSL continues to operate as the largest women’s soccer league in the world. An all-time high of 150 teams will compete in the 2025 WPSL Season this summer. Team rosters feature elite collegiate, post-collegiate, international, and standout prep student-athletes. Many of the United States’ most accomplished women’s national team players have played in the WPSL since its inception in 1998, including household names such as Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Abby Wambach, and Brandi Chastain.