Boston’s Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League group formally has a reputation: BOS Nation Soccer Membership.
Boston introduced its new title on Tuesday, noting that “BOS Nation” is an anagram for “Bostonian.”
Boston is the most recent enlargement membership to affix the NWSL, with Bay FC and Utah Royals FC starting play this season. Boston is slated to formally start play in 2026 because the league’s fifteenth group. A sixteenth group, which might additionally start play in 2026, is anticipated to be chosen by the league later this yr.
Official rollout of the title is linked to a particular advertising marketing campaign, with the hyperlink “TooManyBalls.com.” An official video was launched on Tuesday, with Boston sporting legends like Tom Brady, Jaylen Brown, David Ortiz and David Pastrnak making cameos.
“This is a vital second for ladies’s sports activities in Boston – and for Bostonians to see that they’re absolutely represented within the group title, model id, and even within the tongue-in- cheek tone of the unveil marketing campaign,” Jennifer Epstein, controlling proprietor of the membership, stated in a launch.
The membership’s main shade is “Championship Inexperienced” alongside “accent colours Relentless Raspberry, Loyal Charcoal, Daring Pink, Rise Yellow and Orange Press.” The group’s emblem will likely be revealed at a later date.
Boston initially had a ladies’s skilled soccer group within the Girls’s United Soccer Affiliation, the Boston Breakers. The then joined Girls’s Skilled Soccer (WPS) earlier than turning into one in every of eight unique groups to compete within the NWSL. The Breakers’ final season within the NWSL was in 2017, earlier than the membership folded in 2018.
Now, a brand new Boston membership is backed with an all-female possession group, Boston Unity Soccer Companions, that consists of Juno Fairness founder Epstein, Anna Palmer, Stephanie Connaughton and Ami Kuan Danoff. Others, like Boston Celtics basketball operations president Brad Stevens and Boston Globe Media CEO Linda Pizzuti Henry have joined as buyers for the reason that announcement. On Tuesday, it was introduced that actress and producer Elizabeth Banks, and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman have additionally been added to that group.
“I’m thrilled to affix this female-led possession group, every of whom has made a outstanding affect in Boston,” Banks, who’s initially from Pittsfield, Massachusetts, stated in a press release. “The inspiring group of buyers, together with their mission-driven imaginative and prescient for the stadium, will depart an enduring legacy on future generations of ladies’s athletes and followers.”
Raisman, who grew up in a Boston suburb, cited the significance in rising ladies’s sports activities — and soccer — in her hometown as a part of her reasoning for becoming a member of the possession group.
“I grew up a Boston sports activities fan & have particular reminiscences of going to Celtics, Bruins, Crimson Sox & Patriots video games with my dad,” Raisman stated. “It’s so vital for teenagers to see themselves of their position fashions and I’m grateful to have the chance to assist the expansion of ladies’s soccer and sports activities in my hometown. I’m excited for the BOS Nation FC gamers to expertise the identical love and keenness I’ve acquired from the Boston group and sit up for watching them encourage the subsequent era.”
A particular fan celebration at Dick’s Home of Sport in Boston is about to happen on Tuesday, with Raisman and former U.S. ladies’s nationwide group star Sam Mewis in attendance.
