Seattle Reign
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| Full name | Seattle Reign FC |
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| Nickname(s) | Reign |
| Founded | 2012 |
| Stadium | Memorial Stadium |
| Capacity | 7,000 (12,000) |
| Owners | Bill and Teresa Predmore |
| General Manager | Laura Harvey |
| Head coach | Laura Harvey |
| League | National Women's Soccer League |
| Website | Club home page |
The Seattle Reign FC is an American professional women's soccer team based in Seattle, Washington. The team began play in 2013 in the then eight-team National Women's Soccer League that receives support from the United States Soccer Federation (USSF), the Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) and the Mexican Football Federation (FMF).
In November 2012, it was confirmed that a Seattle-based women's professional soccer team owned by Bill Predmore (founder and CEO of Seattle-based digital marketing agency, POP) had been accepted into a new women's professional soccer league, later named National Women's Soccer League. Former general manager of the Seattle Sounders Women and Seattle Sounders FC Director of Youth Programs, Amy Carnell, was named general manager.
On December 19, 2012, the name and logo was unveiled as Seattle Reign FC. The team's colors were announced as white, platinum, royal blue and midnight black. The name was selected in part as homage to the first professional women's sports team in Seattle, Seattle Reign, a defunct professional basketball team in the American Basketball League (ABL). That team was in turn named after its location in King County, and as a pun alluding to Seattle's rainy climate.
Owner, Bill Predmore stated, "Today's announcement is the result of a thoughtful process to identify the name that best represents the values of our club, articulates our long-term ambitions and celebrates the community within which our supporters live. Reign FC meets all of those objectives and at the same time honors the legacy of professional women's sports in Seattle. Like the Seattle Sounders, whose fans selected a name that honored those who pioneered the sport of soccer in Seattle in the early 1970s, Seattle Reign FC was, in part, selected to pay homage those visionaries – the leaders and players of the Seattle Reign women's basketball team – who pioneered professional women's sports in Seattle."
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