Orlando Pride Announce 2025 NWSL Schedule

The National Women’s Soccer League schedule was released this afternoon, telling us who, where, and when the Orlando Pride will play this year as they look to defend their NWSL Shield and NWSL Championship. The 2025 season once again includes a balanced schedule with each team playing the other 13 teams once at home and once away. As previously announced, the Pride will take part in the NWSL Challenge Cup against the Washington Spirit on March 7 at 8 p.m. at Inter&Co Stadium prior to the regular season.

The Pride will open the season at home against the Chicago Red Stars at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 14. The first road contest will take place on Sunday, March 23 at NJ/NY Gotham FC. Like last year, the season will end with a Decision Day matchup at home against Seattle Reign FC on Sunday Nov. 2 at a time to be announced later.

The postseason will start with the quarterfinals taking place Nov. 7-9, with matches televised on ESPN/ABC, CBS/Paramount+, and Prime Video. The semifinals will be played the weekend of Nov. 14-16 and broadcast on CBS/Paramount+ and ESPN/ABC. The final will take place in primetime and will air on CBS and stream on Paramount+.

The Pride’s longest homestand this season will be just two games, which happens four times if counting the Challenge Cup match against the Spirit and season opener against the Red Stars. Orlando will host Washington and Angel City on April 19 and 25, respectively; the Utah Royals and Racing Louisville on Aug. 3 and 9, respectively; and Bay FC and the North Carolina Courage on Sept. 13 and 19, respectively.

The longest road trip this year will also be two games, occurring four times: at Portland and North Carolina May 3 and 10, at Bay FC and Louisville June 13 and 20, at Kansas City and Angel City Aug. 16 and 21, and at San Diego and Houston Sept. 26 and Oct. 3.

There are no regular-season matches scheduled in July, meaning the league is taking a break for any potential summer international friendlies/tournaments or an as-yet-unannounced cup competition. The Pride’s busiest month will be August, in which they’ll play five matches, with three at home and two on the road. There will be four Pride matches in March (counting the Challenge Cup), May, and September; three each in April, June, and October, and one — the regular-season finale — in November.

Here’s the month-by-month breakdown for the regular season:

• March – 3 (plus the Challenge Cup)
• April – 3
• May – 4
• June – 3
• July – 0
• August – 5
• September – 4
• October – 3
• November – 1

The most common day the Pride will play this year will be on Friday (11 times, or 12 times counting the Challenge Cup), including four consecutive Friday games late in the season. They’ll play 10 Saturday games, four Sunday matches, and once on Thursday (at Angel City Aug. 21).

Here is the Pride’s schedule by day in the regular season:

• Friday – 11 (plus the Challenge Cup)
• Saturday – 10
• Sunday – 4
• Thursday – 1

Pride games will air on various platforms again in 2025, including Prime Video, ESPN 2, ESPN, ION, NWSL+, Paramount+, CBS, and CBS Sports Network.

A new NWSL Rivalry Weekend has been added to the schedule in 2025. While the Pride have some rivalries growing naturally against Kansas City and Washington, they have been pitted against Racing Louisville for some reason. Both teams wear purple, I guess.

Fans who support both Orlando City and the Pride will be interested to know the teams play on the same day eight times this season, but only twice do the game times overlap — on May 3, when the Pride play at 7:30 p.m. at Portland and the Lions play at 8:30 p.m. at Chicago; and on May 10, when the Lions host New England at 7:30 and the Pride and Courage kick off in North Carolina at the same time. However, the teams cut it close a couple other times, with the Pride hosting the Washington Spirit at 5 p.m. April 19 and the Lions playing at Montreal at 7:30 p.m.; and on Sept. 13, with the Pride hosting Bay FC at 5 p.m. and Orlando City facing D.C. United at 7:30 p.m. The other four times the teams play on the same day, the kickoffs are at least three hours apart and as many as 10.5 hours apart (March 29).

2025 Orlando Pride Schedule (All Times Eastern)

• Friday, March 7 — vs. Washington Spirit, 8 p.m. (Prime Video) – NWSL Challenge Cup
• Friday, March 14 — vs. Chicago Red Stars, 8 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Sunday, March 23 — at NJ/NY Gotham FC, 7 p.m. (ESPN2)
• Saturday, March 29 — vs. San Diego Wave, 12 p.m. (ESPN)
• Saturday, April 12 — at Seattle Reign FC, 7:30 p.m. (ION)
• Saturday, April 19 — vs. Washington Spirit, 5 p.m. (ION)
• Friday, April 25 — vs. Angel City FC, 8 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Saturday, May 3 — at Portland Thorns, 7:30 p.m. (ION)
• Saturday, May 10 — at North Carolina Courage, 7:30 p.m. (ION)
• Friday, May 16 — vs. Kansas City Current, 8 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Friday, May 23 — at Utah Royals, 9:30 p.m. (NWSL+)
• Saturday, June 7 — vs. Houston Dash, 7 p.m. (NWSL+)
• Friday, June 13 — at Bay FC, 10 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Friday, June 20 — at Racing Louisville, 8 p.m. (NWSL+)
• Sunday, Aug. 3 — vs. Utah Royals, 6 p.m. (NWSL+/Paramount+)
• Saturday, Aug. 9 — vs. Racing Louisville, 7:30 p.m. (ION)
• Saturday, Aug. 16 — at Kansas City Current, 4 p.m. (CBS)
• Thursday, Aug. 21 — at Angel City FC, 10:30 p.m. (CBS Sports Network)
• Friday, Aug. 29 — vs. NJ/NY Gotham FC, 8 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Sunday, Sept. 7 — at Chicago Red Stars, 3 p.m. (NWSL+/Paramount+)
• Saturday, Sept. 13 — vs. Bay FC, 5 p.m. (ION)
• Friday, Sept. 19 — vs. North Carolina Courage, 7:30 p.m. (NWSL+)
• Friday, Sept. 26 — at San Diego Wave, 10:30 p.m. (NWSL+/Paramount+)
• Friday, Oct. 3 — at Houston Dash, 8 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Friday, Oct. 10 — vs. Portland Thorns, 8 p.m. (Prime Video)
• Saturday, Oct. 18 — at Washington Spirit, 12:30 p.m. (CBS)
• Sunday, Nov. 2 — vs. Seattle Reign FC, TBA (broadcast platform TBA)