Boston Legacy FC unveiled as NWSL expansion team's 2nd nickname in 5 months

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· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 11:40 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Goodbye, BOS Nation FC.

Hello, Boston Legacy FC.

Five months aft introducing a wide panned sanction and selling slogan, the officials of Boston's National Women's Soccer League enlargement nine revealed its caller name.

The archetypal name, BOS Nation, was an anagram of the word "Bostonian." Its slogan, "Too Many Balls," was intended to relay the request for much women's sports successful the city.

Given the contiguous negativity Bostonians showed toward both, officials rapidly went backmost to the drafting board.

The result, Boston Legacy FC, was introduced Wednesday with a bid of posts connected X.

"It's a large time to commencement a caller legacy. To constitute a caller section and physique thing bigger than ourselves," work the archetypal post.

The pursuing posts:

"Because successful Boston, past isn't conscionable remembered. It's made."

"For the city.

For the future.

Boston Legacy FC"

Team logo volition beryllium announced later

Merchandise bearing the caller sanction and the Legacy's greenish and achromatic colours was disposable Wednesday connected the club's website, but the squad said logo would beryllium announced later.

The caller nine is acceptable to statesman play with the 2026 NWSL season.

In a connection posted to its website, the nine said the caller sanction is the effect of studies that whittled 500 suggested names to 14 done feedback gained via "listening sessions" with assemblage members.

From there, the database was further pared down if a sanction wasn't disposable owed to ineligible oregon trademark reasons oregon if it didn't acceptable the team's established criteria for a caller name, which included nary names that invoked "colonial, Revolutionary War and nautical themes."

The remaining candidates were judged done a survey of much than 1,000 people, which included a halfway investigating radical and subgroups specified arsenic Hispanic sports fans successful the metropolis and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

While the squad said the "new sanction was a wide victor successful each azygous class by a statistically important margin," further feedback sessions with marque advisers were conducted earlier it was finalized.

Boston Legacy FC and a still-to-be-named enlargement squad successful Denver volition springiness the NWSL 16 teams. The Denver introduction besides is acceptable to articulation successful 2026.