New England Mutiny


The New England Mutiny are a women's soccer club based in Ludlow, Massachusetts. They compete in the USL W League, in the amateur level of the United States league system, and play their home games at Lusitano Stadium. Founded in 1999 as the Springfield Sirens, the club commenced play in the original incarnation of the W League, before moving to the Women's Premier Soccer League in 2003, and joining a secession of WPSL clubs to become a founding member of United Women's Soccer in 2016. The Mutiny returned to the W League in 2026.

History

Established in 1999 as Springfield Sirens, the club played in the amateur W-League. After winning the W-2 championship in 2000, the club played one more season in the W-League, then a season as an exhibition team before changing the team name to the New England Mutiny and accepting promotion to WPSL as one of the founding members of the East Division. On July 29, 2004, in a match preparing women's national team of China for international tournament, the Mutiny surprised the fifth ranked team in the world, in front of 3000 fans in Agawam, Massachusetts, with a 3–1 lead, and losing 4–3 only in the final minutes. The Mutiny consider this match one of their two crowning achievements.
After the folding of WPS in 2012, the club joined the new Women's Premier Soccer League Elite, which included three former WPS teams. Although they finished fifth out of the eight WPSLE teams, they recorded wins over the Chicago Red Stars and Boston Breakers as well as a draw at the Western New York Flash – the former WPS teams – in the last month of the season. Their win over the Breakers is the first occurrence of an amateur side beating a professional side in US women's soccer, and is the second of the Mutiny's crowning achievements. WPSL-Elite lasted just one year as the former WPS teams joined the newly formed National Women's Soccer League, while the remaining teams either folded or, like the Mutiny, returned to the WPSL in 2013. The Mutiny spent three further years in the WPSL, but after dissatisfaction with playoff procedures and handling in the WPSL, the team branched off to join the inaugural 2016 season of United Women's Soccer.

Team

Notable former players

The following former players have played at the senior international and/or professional level:

Honors