| Club: | Angel City FC |
| Season: | 2022 |
| Chrtitle: | General manager |
| Chairman: | Angela Hucles Mangano (since Aug 15)[1] |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Freya Coombe |
| Stadium: | Banc of California Stadium Los Angeles (Capacity: 22,000) |
| League: | NWSL |
| League Result: | 8th |
| Cup1: | Challenge Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Group stage |
| Cup2: | Playoffs |
| League Topscorer: | Savannah McCaskill (6) |
| Season Topscorer: | Savannah McCaskill (7) |
| Highest Attendance: | 22,000 (4 times) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 16,112 (Sep 21 vs. WAS) |
| Average Attendance: | 19,104 |
| Largest Win: | 2–1 (Apr 29 vs. NC) |
| Largest Loss: | 0–3 (Jun 3 vs. POR) |
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| Nextseason: | 2023 |
The 2022 Angel City FC season was the team's inaugural season as a professional women's soccer team. Angel City FC plays in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top tier of women's soccer in the United States.
On August 15, 2022, Angel City FC promoted vice president of player development and operations Angela Hucles to general manager, taking on some of the roles previously held by sporting director Eniola Aluko.[1]
| No. | Player | Nation | Destination club | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | GK | Maia Pérez |  |  GPSO 92 Issy | On loan for one year. | [4] |
| 4 | DF | Vanessa Gilles |  | Olympique Lyon | On loan until June 30, 2023. | [5] [6] |
Angel City has used a total of 23 players during the 2022 season, and there have been 9 different goal scorers. There have also been five squad members who have not made a first-team appearance in the campaign: three goalkeepers, Sarah Gorden and MA Vignola, who have long term injuries.
The team has scored a total of 25 goals in all competitions. Savannah McCaskill with 7 goals, is the highest scorer, followed by Christen Press and Cari Roccaro with 4 goals each.
Numbers under APPS indicate starts, and numbers in parentheses denote appearances as substitute.
| Name | Challenge Cup | NWSL | Total | Discipline | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||||||
| 2 | FW | | Sydney Leroux | 0 | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | DF | | Jasmyne Spencer | 6 | 0 | 5 (4) | 0 | 11 (4) | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 4 | DF | | Vanessa Gilles | 6 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 5 | DF |  | Ali Riley | 6 | 0 | 13 (1) | 2 | 19 (1) | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | DF | | Megan Reid | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 7 | DF | | Simone Charley | 2 (1) | 1 | 8 (6) | 0 | 10 (7) | 1 | 2 | 0 | |
| 8 | MF | | Cari Roccaro | 6 | 0 | 14 (1) | 4 | 20 (1) | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| 9 | MF | | Savannah McCaskill | 5 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 1 | |
| 10 | FW | Claire Emslie | 0 | 0 | 4 (1) | 2 | 4 (1) | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 13 | GK |  | 6 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 14 | DF | | Paige Nielsen | 2 | 0 | 8 (6) | 0 | 10 (6) | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 17 | MF | | Dani Weatherholt | 6 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 18 | FW |  | Jun Endo | 6 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | |
| 19 | MF | | Katie Cousins | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 20 | DF | | Tyler Lussi | 5 (1) | 1 | 15 | 0 | 20 (1) | 1 | 5 | 1 | |
| 21 | MF |  | Stefany Ferrer Van Ginkel | 0 (2) | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 | 0 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 23 | FW | | Christen Press | 5 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |
| 25 | DF |  | Allyson Swaby | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 26 | MF | | Hope Breslin | 0 (5) | 0 | 0 (7) | 0 | 0 (12) | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 28 | MF | | Lily Nabet | 0 (2) | 0 | 2 (5) | 0 | 2 (7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 29 | MF | | Clarisse Le Bihan | 0 | 0 | 5 (9) | 0 | 5 (9) | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 35 | MF | Miri Taylor | 0 (1) | 0 | 5 (4) | 0 | 5 (5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 99 | DF | | Madison Hammond | 4 (2) | 0 | 3 (4) | 0 | 7 (6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
All times are in PT unless otherwise noted.
See main article: 2022 National Women's Soccer League season.
Angel City FC finished the regular season in eighth place and did not qualify for the NWSL playoffs.
See main article: 2022 NWSL Challenge Cup.
On May 24, 2022, Angel City FC announced a two-year partnership with Liga MX Femenil club Tigres UANL of Monterrey, Mexico. The agreement included friendlies to be played between the clubs, with the first occurring on August 10, 2022, at the Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles, and the second in 2023 at Estadio Universitario in Monterrey.[7] [8] [9] TUDN announced it would stream the match via the ViX service,[10] and the match was also scheduled to be televised in the Los Angeles area on Bally Sports SoCal.[11] [12]
On June 27, 2022, Angel City FC and the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol announced the Copa Angelina, an inaugural non-FIFA friendly match between the club and the Mexico women's national football team scheduled for Labor Day (September 5, 2022) in Los Angeles. The match was broadcast live on TUDN and Univision in the United States and Mexico.[13] [14] Mexico won the inaugural friendly 2–0.[15] [16]