{"id":160204,"date":"2026-03-11T11:51:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160204\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:51:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:51:06","slug":"nwsl-rings-in-2026-season-with-new-n-y-c-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160204\/","title":{"rendered":"NWSL rings in 2026 season with new N.Y.C. headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Ahead of its 2026 season-opener this weekend, the NWSL unveiled its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/05\/nwsl-relocates-ny-hq-to-same-building-as-nfl-mlb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/05\/nwsl-relocates-ny-hq-to-same-building-as-nfl-mlb\/\">new Manhattan headquarters<\/a> Tuesday night with an event attended by league executives and press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The office is on the eighth floor of 551 Fifth Ave. and totals 21,000 square feet, more than double the footprint of the league\u2019s previous N.Y. HQ, a sublease at 292 Madison Ave. By June, the office will be the permanent base for the NWSL\u2019s around 100 employees on a Tuesday-Thursday in-office hybrid schedule, according to the league\u2019s EVP\/Chief People &amp; Community Officer Lauren Lopez. Remote or Chicago-based staff were offered the option to relocate last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">\u201cWe really started to think about, how do we continue to grow this cohesive culture as we are growing at such a quick clip?\u201d Lopez told SBJ. \u201cThat\u2019s where the real push [began] to start looking at a larger space, something that could really be an HQ and start bringing people to New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">The league officially moved into the office in the first week of January and designed it in collaboration with N.Y.-based architecture firm Sydness Architects. Among the office\u2019s features and amenities are a large conference room; gym area and shower room; podcast studio; art room; dedicated quiet spaces and sitting rooms; and a turf-carpeted corner with bleacher seating and television screens (which the NWSL will use for events, content screenings and as a place for its operations team to review match footage).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">\u201cWhat really sold us here was, it was a white blank space,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cWe built something that is really for the staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Among NWSL executives in attendance for the unveil were league Commissioner Jessica Berman, COO Sarah Jones Simmer, EVP &amp; Chief Legal Officer Bill Ordower, CFO Pauline Philippi, SVP\/Partnerships &amp; Business Development Matt Soloff and VP\/Strategy Carlin Hudson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Berman will hold a season-opening press conference today, beginning at noon. Read her recent Q&amp;A with SBJ addressing issues including her expectations for the NWSL\u2019s two new expansion teams and upcoming media rights negotiations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/09\/nwsls-jessica-berman-eyes-world-cup-boost-media-rights-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/09\/nwsls-jessica-berman-eyes-world-cup-boost-media-rights-future\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of its 2026 season-opener this weekend, the NWSL unveiled its new Manhattan headquarters Tuesday night with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,19203,63,400,6223],"class_list":["post-160204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nwsl","tag-nyc","tag-soccer","tag-womens-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}