NORTH CAROLINA, USA — It's game time!
Saturday will be the first-ever National Women's Soccer League (NSWL) playoff meeting between the North Carolina Courage and fourth-seeded Current.
The Courage beat the Current twice in the Challenge Cup semifinals in route to the team’s back-to-back wins in the competition in 2022 and 2023.
Playoff history
The North Carolina Courage are 5-3-0 in the NWSL playoffs, with each of those three losses coming against that year’s champion.
In 2017, the Courage fell in the final against the Portland Thorns, while in 2021 and 2023, quarterfinal losses came at the hands of eventual champions Washington and Gotham.
Saturday will also be just the second road playoff game in Courage history, with the first being the 2021 quarterfinals at Washington.
Watch party
The North Carolina Courage and the Current will meet in Kansas City for the NWSL playoff quarterfinals on Saturday, November 9, at 12 p.m. ET. The match will be broadcast on CBS and streamed on Paramount+.
The Courage will host a watch party at the Downtown Raleigh Carolina Ale House for the match. Doors will open at 11 a.m. ET and fans planning to attend can RSVP HERE.
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