Denver’s Incoming Nwsl Expansion Team Has Its Name: Summit Fc

The description National Women’s Soccer League squad successful Colorado group to commencement play adjacent play will beryllium called Denver Summit FC.

The squad announced its caller name, colors and crest connected Tuesday. A ceremony for fans is group for Saturday astatine Denver’s McGregor Square.

The Summit sanction was nan consequence of a instrumentality study that generated much than 50,000 responses, nan squad said.

The team’s crest, meant to to bespeak nan Colorado landscape, is simply a acheronian greenish image of mountains group successful beforehand of an reddish-orange and golden sunset.

“I deliberation nan process for nan marque was very overmuch rooted successful conscionable nan ethos of this club, which is organization first,” squad president Jen Millet said. “I deliberation there’s a existent acknowledgment from this ownership group that organization is astatine nan halfway of what we’re building and doing and really we will beryllium successful.”

The 1 hiccup successful nan process was that location was an Ultimate Frisbee squad which already claimed nan sanction Colorado Summit, but nan Ultimate Frisbee Association agreed to rename nan team.

The Denver Summit and nan Boston Legacy subordinate nan NWSL adjacent season, bringing nan convention to 16 teams.

Denver was awarded a franchise past December. The squad will play successful a impermanent location for 2 seasons earlier moving to a caller 14,500-seat purpose-built stadium successful 2028. The nine has besides surgery crushed connected a training halfway successful Centennial, Colorado – a suburb of Denver.

Millet said nan squad is accelerating arsenic it moves to its launch. In May, Denver named erstwhile North Carolina Courage executive Curt Johnson its wide manager, overseeing each of nan shot operations for nan caller club. Millet was named squad president successful April. In summation to assembling an inaugural roster, nan squad will soon beryllium trading tickets.

“The different large pieces for america are conscionable continuing to prosecute pinch nan community. There’s truthful overmuch excitement astir this brand, there’s excitement astir our stadium project,” Millet said. “But we want to make judge we perceive from everybody astir feedback and gathering accusation and making judge that everyone successful nan marketplace feels bully astir nan nine and what we’re doing.”