{"id":296751,"date":"2026-07-15T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296751\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T16:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T16:59:13","slug":"gotham-fc-hosts-washington-spirit-at-citi-field-for-record-setting-queens-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/296751\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotham FC Hosts Washington Spirit at Citi Field for Record-Setting Queens Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gotham FC is kicking off in Queens, as the reigning <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-defeats-spirit-in-2025-championship-to-win-2nd-nwsl-title-in-3-years\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NWSL champion<\/a> hosts rival Washington at MLB\u2019s Citi Field tonight in the first NWSL match played within New York City limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With 40,000+ tickets sold, the Queens Classic is poised to shatter Gotham\u2019s single-game attendance record (15,569 in the 2024 playoffs) and NYC\u2019s women\u2019s sports record (28,144 at Coco Gauff\u2019s 2023 US Open final). Selling out the <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-fc-queens-classic-ticket-sales-womens-sports-new-york-record-nwsl\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-fc-queens-classic-ticket-sales-womens-sports-new-york-record-nwsl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">42,000-sea<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-fc-queens-classic-ticket-sales-womens-sports-new-york-record-nwsl\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-fc-queens-classic-ticket-sales-womens-sports-new-york-record-nwsl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">t<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-fc-queens-classic-ticket-sales-womens-sports-new-york-record-nwsl\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-fc-queens-classic-ticket-sales-womens-sports-new-york-record-nwsl\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> ballpark<\/a> remains within reach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2025 NWSL championship rematch also nods to the future, after the Bats announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-fc-etihad-stadium-move-queens-2028\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">permanent move<\/a> to Queens\u2019s Etihad Park in 2028. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. 4 Gotham\u2019s lineup raises the stakes, with both marquee 2026 signing Sam Kerr and <a href=\"https:\/\/justwomenssports.com\/reads\/gotham-fc-denise-osullivan-transfer-liverpool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Liverpool loanee Denise O\u2019Sullivan<\/a> expected to be available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 2-0 since the break, the No. 2 Spirit is climbing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwslsoccer.com\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">NWSL table<\/a> behind twin Trinity Rodman game-winners, while Gotham\u2019s split its first two games back with a loss to No. 1 San Diego before topping No. 5 Utah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the main parts of me joining Gotham, is that I wanted to win stuff,\u201d Kerr said earlier this month. \u201cIt helps they have some of the best players in the league.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Where to Watch the Gotham FC vs Washington Spirit NWSL Game<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Queens Classic kicks off tonight at 8:15 PM ET, live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gotham FC is kicking off in Queens, as the reigning NWSL champion hosts rival Washington at MLB\u2019s Citi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[90798,19202,9,24,63,122,68711,124,123,68321],"class_list":["post-296751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-2026-nwsl-season","tag-gotham-fc","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-classic","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-washington-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296751","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=296751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}