Competition History
The Washington Freedom was one of the eight professional soccer teams that played in the Women's United Soccer Association from 2001 to 2003. The team won the WUSA Founders Cup III in their final year, shortly before the league announced on September 15, 2003, that it was suspending operations. Unique among the WUSA teams, though, the Freedom maintained a continued existence, playing exhibition seasons in 2004 and 2005, then joining the W-League in 2006 and winning the W-League Championship in 2007. The Freedom are now a part of Women's Professional Soccer that launched in April 2009.
Despite the addition of a professional team, the Freedom have maintained an elite amateur team, which currently plays in the W-League, finishing second in the league in 2009.
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