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Denver Summit FC: Nine Games Left and Four Points From an NWSL Playoff Spot

Denver Summit FC beat the Chicago Stars 6-1 at Centennial Stadium, the most goals any NWSL team has scored in a single match this season, and I've got a lot to say about

Denver Summit FC Host Chicago Stars: The One They're Supposed to Win

Chicago has scored two goals on the road all season. One win, no draws, ten losses away from home. They are last in the NWSL and they come to Centennial Stadium on Saturd

Denver Summit FC Had the Ball All Night in Portland and Lost

Denver Summit FC held 62.5% of the ball at Portland, got into the Thorns' box 29 times, and lost 1-0 in an NWSL road match that looked nothing like the scoreline. Abby S

A Point on the Road — Abby Smith's 300th and Eva Gaetino's Injury

Denver Summit FC take a point on the road in a 1-1 draw at San Diego Wave, and this NWSL recap starts with the news: Eva Gaetino came off in the 16th minute holding her h

Denver Summit FC Lost Every Stat and Beat Utah Anyway

Denver Summit FC beat the Utah Royals 2-1 on Saturday night, and every number from that match says they shouldn't have. Utah out-shot them 18 to 12 and doubled them on ex

Seventeen Shots, Zero Chances: Denver Summit FC's Real Problem

Denver Summit FC have spent this whole season creating chances and not finishing them — and after Wednesday's 0-2 loss to the North Carolina Courage, that story doesn't h

Nick Cushing on Denver Summit's Finishing Crisis

Denver Summit FC's leading goal scorer this season is a center back — and after Sunday's 1-1 draw with Boston Legacy, that's not a fun trivia answer anymore, it's the who

Denver Summit Loses at Washington Despite Doubling xG

Denver Summit FC doubled Washington Spirit's expected goals in this week's NWSL matchup, out-shot the league's number one team 17-13, and still lost 1-0 — on a shot with

Denver Summit FC Open New Stadium With a Win

A rookie defender came off the bench and won the first match ever played at Centennial Stadium by scoring her first ever NWSL goal. That's how Denver Summit beat the Port

Denver Summit Host Portland Thorns: The Table Says Portland. The Numbers Say Otherwise.

Portland is 3rd in the NWSL. Denver is 11th. Eleven points apart. I ran the numbers anyway, and Portland's expected-goal difference is actually worse than Denver's — the

Summit Draw Houston Dash as Cheap Goals Cost Denver Again

Yazmeen Ryan scored her third goal of the season Sunday — a rocket into the top corner against the team that gave her the Golden Boot a year ago. Denver Summit FC acquire

Lindsey Heaps Is Here: Denver Summit FC's # 10

Lindsey Heaps is in the building, and this episode is about what that actually means. One hundred seventy-six caps for the United States. Forty international goals. A Wo

What Broke vs. Kansas City and the Houston Preview

Denver Summit FC had 56% of the ball, out-passed the Kansas City Current, and still lost 3-0 at home. So how does that happen — and why does it keep happening at DICK'S?

Denver Summit FC Is Back: New Facility & Kansas City Preview (BONUS)

Denver Summit FC just opened a NWSL facility that wasn't borrowed, wasn't adapted from a men's team — it was designed, from the studs out, for women. And once you hear wh

What Is a Supporters Group, Actually? The 14ers Explain

Denver Summit FC's biggest supporters explain what a supporters group actually is — and why you should be one. Kate sits down with Megan and Emily, president and communi

Natalie Means on Her First NWSL Start, Marta, and Denver Summit FC's Playoff Push

Natalie Means graduated from Georgetown and played professional soccer on the same day — and Denver Summit won. She's back on The 5280 Pitch for her second appearance th

"We Don't Consider Ourselves an Expansion Team" — Devin Lynch on Denver Summit FC

"We don't consider ourselves an expansion team anymore." That's Denver Summit FC rookie Devin Lynch, eleven games into her first NWSL season — and she's not just talking,

Abby Smith on the Best Season of Her Career, Lindsey Heaps & Protecting Denver's Goal

Ten years in this league. Franchises folded. A knee injury that almost ended everything. And right now, by every advanced metric, Abby Smith is having the best season of

Denver Summit FC: What We Know After 11 Games

Denver outscored Racing Louisville 2.68 to 0.80 in expected goals on Friday night. They won 1-0. That gap — between what this team creates and what ends up on the scorebo

Denver Summit FC NWSL: Utah Recap & Louisville Preview

Denver Summit FC controlled 58.7% of the ball, out-passed Utah 385 to 280, and had nearly double the crosses — and still walked away with a 2-1 loss. Kate Hanson breaks