# 2009 Women's Professional Soccer Playoffs

The 2009 WPS Playoffs were the postseason to Women's Professional Soccer's 2009 Season, that started on August 15 and culminated on August 22 at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California.

## Format

The top four WPS teams, based on their regular season finishes, qualified for the playoffs. In the First Round, the third-ranked team hosted the fourth-ranked team. The winner of that match advances to the Super Semifinal, where they traveled to the second-ranked team. Finally, the regular season first-ranked team hosted the winner of the Super Semifinal in the WPS Championship match.
This format, fairly unusual in the American sports landscape, preserves the knockout-style postseason most American sports fans are familiar with, while also highly favoring the regular season first-ranked team.

## Standings

| Place | Team | GP | W | L | T | GF | GA | GD | Points |
| 1 | Los Angeles Sol | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 10 | +17 | 41 |
| 2 | Saint Louis Athletica | 20 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 19 | 15 | +4 | 33 |
| 3 | Washington Freedom | 20 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 32 | 32 | 0 | 29 |
| 4 | Sky Blue FC | 20 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 20 | -1 | 26 |
| 5 | Boston Breakers | 20 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 18 | 20 | -2 | 25 |
| 6 | Chicago Red Stars | 20 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 18 | 25 | -7 | 20 |
| 7 | FC Gold Pride | 20 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 17 | 28 | -11 | 18 |

## Bracket

| First Round | First Round | First Round | Super Semifinal | Super Semifinal | Super Semifinal | WPS Final | WPS Final | WPS Final |
| | | | | | | 1 | Los Angeles Sol | 0 |
| | | | 2 | Saint Louis Athletica | 0 | 4 | Sky Blue FC | 1 |
| 3 | Washington Freedom | 1 | 4 | Sky Blue FC | 1 | | | |
| 4 | Sky Blue FC | 2 | | | | | | |

## Results
### WPS Championship

| Los Angeles Sol | Sky Blue FC |
LOS ANGELES SOL: :
| GK | 23 | Karina LeBlanc |
| DF | 22 | Manya Makoski |
| DF | 11 | Brittany Bock | 52' |
| DF | 3 | Allison Falk | 27' |
| DF | 14 | Stephanie Cox |
| MF | 6 | McCall Zerboni | | 36' |
| MF | 4 | Aly Wagner | | 63' |
| MF | 7 | Shannon Boxx (c) |
| MF | 8 | Aya Miyama |
| FW | 10 | Marta |
| FW | 9 | Han Duan | | 79' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 1 | Val Henderson |
| DF | 2 | Keri Sanchez |
| DF | 19 | Sharolta Nonen | | 36' |
| DF | 21 | Johanna Frisk |
| MF | 17 | Liz Bogus |
| MF | 18 | Katie Larkin | | 63' |
| FW | 16 | Lyndsey Patterson | | 79' |
| Manager: |||
| Abner Rogers ||||
SKY BLUE FC: :
| GK | 23 | Jenni Branam |
| DF | 17 | Keeley Dowling |
| DF | 4 | Jen Buczkowski |
| DF | 3 | Christie Rampone (c) |
| DF | 12 | Meghan Schnur |
| MF | 20 | Kacey White |
| MF | 10 | Yael Averbuch |
| MF | 24 | Francielle |
| FW | 9 | Heather O'Reilly (MVP) | 84' |
| FW | 11 | Rosana | 72' |
| FW | 6 | Natasha Kai | 68' |
| Substitutes: |||
| GK | 22 | Cori Alexander |
| DF | 38 | Julianne Sitch |
| MF | 7 | Kelly Parker |
| MF | 13 | Noelle Keselica | 84' |
| MF | 14 | Collette McCallum | 72' |
| FW | 15 | Katie Hooker |
| FW | 16 | Kerri Hanks | 68' |
| Manager: |||
| Christie Rampone ||||
| MATCH OFFICIALS Assistant referees: Marlene Duffy Veronica Perez Fourth official: Margaret Domka | MATCH RULES 90 minutes. 30 minutes of extra-time if necessary. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of three substitutions. |

## Media coverage

Both the First Round and the WPS Championship was viewable on Fox Sports Network, while the Super Semifinal was on Fox Soccer Channel. Also, all three matches were webcast on the WPS website.