{"id":5125,"date":"2026-07-17T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5125"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:35:48","slug":"it-was-good-business-for-vermont-green-fc-to-add-a-womens-team-now-theyre-on-the-cusp-of-a-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=5125","title":{"rendered":"It was good business for Vermont Green FC to add a women\u2019s team. Now, they\u2019re on the cusp of a title."},"content":{"rendered":"
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For Vermont Green FC to have a successful first season in the USL W League this summer, it just needed to attract some new fans, establish a foundation for the future, and perhaps win a couple games.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What it did instead went so much further. <\/span><\/p>\n

Building on a ride-or-die fan base that has supported the men\u2019s side of the Burlington-based club since its founding in 2022, the women in Green infused new life into the fandom. They introduced the Vermont community to women\u2019s professional soccer and turned existing fans of women\u2019s sports into Green diehards.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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And it didn\u2019t hurt that the team kept winning.<\/span><\/p>\n

After going undefeated (10-0-4) and winning the Northeast Division title, Vermont Green FC will face Salmon Bay FC in the USL W League championship game in Seattle. Tickets are sold out, but fans can stream the game Saturday (5 p.m. EST) on Salmon Bay\u2019s website. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Green cofounder Patrick Infurna wants to dispel the idea that adding a women\u2019s side was an act of \u201ccharity\u201d or a way to earn good press. Beyond being the obvious next step in the club\u2019s growth, he said, adding a women\u2019s team is a revenue driver on par with the men\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe talk to a lot of people who are like \u2018women deserve this\u2019 \u2014 and obviously that\u2019s true,\u201d Infurna said. \u201cBut we also hear people follow that up and say it\u2019s a sacrifice. \u2026 Our women\u2019s team is as viable for our business as our men\u2019s team, and we want to grow this thing, so we need to have a good business.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The USL W League, which fields 96 teams across the country, is a summer training ground for top college players and aspiring professionals \u2014 the women\u2019s soccer equivalent of the Cape Cod Baseball League. The winners of the USLW\u2019s 16 divisions constituted the playoff bracket.<\/span><\/p>\n

From the outset of this season, the women in Green\u2019s \u201cNorth Star\u201d was to win the division, coach Abby Carchio said. Anything beyond that was a pleasant but unexpected bonus. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe community was just excited to have a women\u2019s squad, and hopefully we\u2019d get some wins,\u201d said Carchio, who\u2019s also an assistant at Northeastern. \u201cI don\u2019t think the expectations were to go undefeated in our conference, never mind win and then go on to make the national final.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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While the current iteration of the league has existed since 2022, Vermont was one of only a handful of new teams this season, and persuading players to join an unproven squad in its first year was no easy feat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many athletes and their coaches, particularly at Power Four schools, worry about overtraining during the offseason. USLW players retain their amateur status and don\u2019t get paid to play, so Carchio and sporting director Adam Pfeifer had to get creative to convince them it would be worth leaving their homes and families for the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a tough sell for players that have never heard of our team before,\u201d Carchio said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The club has a record of success on the men\u2019s side, which Pfeifer and Carchio leveraged in their pitch to prospective players. They also touted the University of Vermont\u2019s state-of-the-art facilities, where the club trains and competes. <\/span><\/p>\n

Another draw is the Green\u2019s Vermont roots and community-first model. Games feel like a party and a farmers market wrapped into one, Infurna said. The teams\u2019 training shirts are sponsored by Ben & Jerry\u2019s; you\u2019d be hard-pressed to find a sponsor more quintessentially Vermont than that.<\/span><\/p>\n

But perhaps the biggest draw of all was that, by sharing a team name and identity with the men, the women\u2019s team inherited the support of a passionate fan base that sells out Virtue Field (capacity 2,500) nearly every game.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Watching a video of the raucous fans waving flags, belting songs, and firing off flares during a men\u2019s match was what drove Boston College sophomore Emily Mara to join the Green this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the Vermont community. They love Vermont Green. You will be supported everywhere you go,\u201d Mara said. \u201cI loved that idea of not just playing for myself and the team, but playing for the whole community in Vermont.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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