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With the NWSL Championship set for Nov. 20 at Lynn Family Stadium — and Racing Louisville FC a first-year member of the league — the club’s supporters have pitched in to welcome visitors to town.

All this week, we’ll be posting fan-recommended spots to eat, drink, stay and more at www.racingloufc.com/racingloufc.

What pairs well with bourbon? Just about anything. Check out a few of these nearby favorites.

Chick’n & Mi: 1766 Mellwood Avenue

They say it’s asian fusion meets southern comfort. We just say it’s really good — and a hotspot before Racing Louisville games. There’s also a full bar featuring a sake, craft beer and cocktail menu.

GALAXIE: 732 E. Market Street

In addition to its award-winning margaritas — go for a spicy marg if you’re feeling adventurous! — GALAXIE offers tasty Mexican eats, an outdoor patio and a separate late-night music venue space in the back.

NuLu Marketplace: 823 E. Market Street

A recent addition to the neighborhood, this hub of bars, restaurants and boutiques brings together a bit of everything, including Torino’s Sandwich Bar and Emmy Squared Pizza.

Royals Hot Chicken: 736 E. Market Street

A sister restaurant of nearby Feast BBQ, this Nashville-style hot chicken joint offers comfort food sides and drink options that include alcohol-infused slushies and shakes. 

The Seafood Lady: 601 E. Jefferson Street

Louisville’s airport contains one of UPS’ largest hubs, and this spot makes the most of it, bringing in fresh ingredients for Florida-style platters. Crab, lobster and crawfish are all specialties at what grew from a food truck to multiple brick and mortar locations.

Honorable mention: The Brown Hotel, at 335 W. Broadway, is known for inventing the famous Hot Brown, now a widely known Louisville dish. And as for KFC: It tastes the same here as wherever you’re from.

With the NWSL Championship set for Nov. 20 at Lynn Family Stadium — and Racing Louisville FC a first-year member of the league — the club’s supporters have pitched in to welcome visitors to town.

All this week, we’ll be posting fan-recommended spots to eat, drink, stay and more at www.racingloufc.com/racingloufc.

We’ll start with a nod to bourbon country. Here’s where to drink near Lynn Family Stadium.

Copper & Kings Rooftop Bar & Restaurant: 112 E. Washington Street

This distillery evidences how brandy can elevate a cocktail by changing its base spirit. The views are nice, too. Peer in one direction, and it’s a glance at the downtown Louisville skyline. Glance the other way, and you’ll overlook Lynn Family Stadium.

Feast BBQ: 909 E. Market Street

This is a restaurant more than a bar. And while the food is plenty yummy, we’d be remiss to not point out this local favorite serves a popular bourbon slushy.

Garage Bar: 700 E. Market Street

In addition to their wood-fired pizzas and extensive drink menu — the Honey Lavender Lemonade is a favorite — Garage Bar features an extensive outdoor seating area. Ping pong tables and turf seating make it an ideal happy hour or late-night hot spot. 

Play Louisville: 1101 E. Washington Street

“Louisville’s place to party” is one of the closest spots to Lynn Family Stadium and where you’ll often find Racing Louisville supporters after games. It’s ideal for late-night dancing, drinks and drag shows.

Please & Thank You: 800 E. Market Street

Louisville has a way of getting its guest to overindulge. Shake that hangover with some nice coffee, but the real reason to visit is what many consider the best chocolate chip cookies in town.

Honorable mentions: The Silver Dollar and its extensive bourbon selection at 1761 Frankfort Avenue; soccer-loving Pregame Coffee at 723 E. Main Street; and the eclectic High Horse, a neighborhood bar a close walk from Lynn Family Stadium at 1032 Story Avenue.

Soccer Holdings, LLC, has formed a pioneering partnership with RealResponse, the leading safe and secure feedback, monitoring and anonymous reporting platform for athletic teams and organizations, it was announced Tuesday.

The deal provides RealResponse’s platforms to all athletes, coaches and staff with the NWSL’s Racing Louisville FC, USL Championship’s Louisville City FC and the professional clubs’ respective youth academies.

Soccer Holdings is the first organization to make RealResponse available to a USL team or youth soccer academy. While RealResponse already partners with the NWSL, Racing is the second club in the league — joining OL Reign — to fully engage with the platform.

Along with players being able to anonymously contact the NWSL league office via RealResponse, this team specific-adoption will give Racing personnel an additional way to quickly and anonymously communicate directly with local leadership about a variety of needs.

“Providing a safe environment for players, coaches and back office staff is our No. 1 priority,” said Soccer Holdings’ president, Brad Estes. “We understand that formally reporting an issue in the workplace can be a stressful experience. This first-of-its-kind partnership with RealResponse will ensure that each of our employees have the opportunity to maintain anonymity during the reporting process, and our culture can only improve as a result.”

The Soccer Holdings partnership continues unprecedented growth for RealResponse, which has given more than 50,000 athletes the ability to share feedback safety and securely and report needs and concern to leadership. RealResponse works with more than 100 colleges and universities along with USADA, the NFLPA and USA Gymnastics.

“We are thrilled to partner with Louisville’s soccer clubs on their commitment to players and staff,” said David Chadwick, founder of RealResponse. “By providing a confidential resource for sending information directly to team officials on a broad array of needs, we are humbled to play a small part moving forward in the shared quest to keep all athletes and staff safe.”

Based in North Carolina, RealResponse was earlier this year recognized by the Charlotte Business Journal as one of the “Fifty Most Innovative Companies in the Region.” Visit RealResponse.com for more information.

Racing Louisville FC defender Emily Fox has made it back-to-back call ups to the U.S. Women’s National Team.

Coach Vlatko Andonovski on Tuesday named Fox to a 22-player roster for a pair of friendlies against Australia on Nov. 26 (11 p.m. ET, FS2) and Nov. 30 (4 a.m. ET, ESPN).

This overseas trip marks the USWNT’s first to Australia since the 2000 Summer Olympics. Notably, the nation will co-host the 2023 World Cup with New Zealand.

Fox — currently up for NWSL Rookie of the Year — began the year in camp representing her country while drafted No. 1 overall by Racing in January. She was called back up in October to number her fifth and sixth caps in games against Korea Republic, including a 90-minute performance Oct. 26 as the USWNT rolled to a 6-0 victory.

This time, Fox made a roster featuring 10 members with recent Olympic experience and 12 players with 10 caps or less. Average age of the group is 26.3 years, with Fox 23.

“We still have a few players out with injuries, so this roster is a mixture of players with a lot of experience in World Cups and Olympics, some who have been a part of the program for a while but who are looking to make their mark in international soccer and a few who are getting a first chance with the National Team in an event like this,” Andonovski said.

“We’ve turned the page towards 2023 World Cup qualifying. and rarely do we get the chance to test young players in environments filled with adversity, so we need to take advantage of what these two games will offer us. It’s exciting to get a chance to see all these players together in our environment and give them a chance to play against one of the best teams in the world.”

The USA and Australia are familiar foes having met 32 times previously, including twice at this past summer’s Olympics. Results were a scoreless draw in group play before the Americans registered a 4-3 victory in the bronze medal game.

Game 1 during this camp will be played at the 83,500-capacity Stadium Australia in Sydney. From there, the Americans will go about 100 miles north to McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle.

USWNT roster by position (club; caps/goals)

Goalkeepers (3): Bella Bixby (Portland Thorns FC; 0), Jane Campbell (Houston Dash; 7), Casey Murphy (North Carolina Courage; 0)

Defenders (7): Alana Cook (OL Reign; 2/0), Abby Dahlkemper (Houston Dash; 77/0), Tierna Davidson (Chicago Red Stars; 43/1), Emily Fox (Racing Louisville FC; 6/0), Sofia Huerta (OL Reign; 7/0), Becky Sauerbrunn (Portland Thorns FC; 197/0), Emily Sonnett (Washington Spirit; 61/0)

Midfielders (6): Lindsey Horan (Portland Thorns FC; 106/24), Rose Lavelle (OL Reign; 66/17), Catarina Macario (Olympique Lyon, FRA; 12/3), Kristie Mewis (Houston Dash; 31/4), Ashley Sanchez (Washington Spirit; 0/0), Andi Sullivan (Washington Spirit; 20/2)

Forwards (6): Bethany Balcer (OL Reign; 0/0), Ashley Hatch (Washington Spirit; 2/0), Margaret Purce (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 7/2), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC; 10/1), Lynn Williams (North Carolina Courage; 43/13), Morgan Weaver (Portland Thorns FC; 0/0)

While Racing Louisville FC’s inaugural season has ended, there’s still another victory in play with star defender Emily Fox on Friday named an NWSL Rookie of the Year finalist.

Fox is one of three players up for the award — joining the Washington Spirit’s Trinity Rodman and Kansas City’s Victoria Pickett— following preliminary voting by players, owners, general managers, coaches and members of the NWSL Media Association.

Fan ballots cast here though 11:59 p.m. Tuesday will determine 10% of the final outcome. A Rookie of the Year winner will be announced in the days leading up to the Nov. 20 NWSL Championship at Louisville’s Lynn Family Stadium.

Fox, who appeared in 23 of 24 regular season games, separated herself with superior pace and dribbling ability in the months following her No. 1 overall selection in the NWSL Draft. She also recently received a call up to the U.S. Women’s National Team, earning her fifth and sixth caps in friendlies last month against Korea Republic.

Fox won’t stand out on the score sheet given her defensive role. But according to the soccer analytics website StatsBomb, she led the NWSL this season with 115 interceptions, 32 more than any player in the league. Fox also ranked sixth in carries — moving with the ball five yards or more — at 924 and 10th in fouls won at 29.

A 23-year-old from Ashburn, Va., Fox featured previously at the University of North Carolina. She overcame multiple torn ACLs in college before Racing drafted one of the league’s top young players as well as a long-term prospect for the USWNT.

Lynn Family Stadium has been announced as a finalist for TheStadiumBusiness Awards 2021’s Project of the Year, just the latest recognition for the home of Louisville City FC and Racing Louisville FC.

TheStadiumBusiness Awards — launched in 2010 — are the first industry accolades for the stadium sector, by the stadium sector. Winners will be announced Nov. 30 during a ceremony in Manchester, England.

Lynn Family Stadium is among six facilities on TheStadiumBusiness’ Project of the Year short list. Others include:

• English Premier League club Leicester City FC’s new training grounds

• The Helsinki Olympic Stadium renovation in Finland

• Renovations at Sahlen Field, home of the Toronto Blue Jays

• Compton & Edrich Stands at Lord’s, a cricket ground in England

• Grand Palais Ephemere, a temporary events venue in Paris

“As our industry restarts and recovers post-pandemic, it’s vital that we look for inspiration and ideas from our colleagues around the world,” said Ian Nuttall, TheStadiumBusiness founder. “Sports and entertainment businesses are now re-imagining and re-invigorating their guest experience – embracing technology, service and creativity to deliver ever more magical moments.

“The world’s venues are the ‘memory factories’ of humanity and it is wonderful to see across all the finalists that our industry is alive with new ideas and new approaches. Venues cannot simply take fans for granted. Instead, we are seeing the industry’s best facilities continue to re-invent their offer and enhance the fan experience, connect more deeply with their communities and tackle their sustainability obligations.”

Owned by Soccer Holdings, LLC, and managed by ASM Global, 15,304 capacity Lynn Family Stadium opened in 2020. The Butchertown neighborhood gem boasts 18 luxury suites, a number of premium seating options, safe-standing supporter zones and an array of amenities, including free WiFi and a large video screen.

Also selected to host the Nov. 20 NWSL Championship, Lynn Family Stadium previously received Greater Louisville Inc.’s  Silver Fleur-De-Lis Award, was named Business First Louisville’s Commercial Real Estate Deal of the Year earned a nomination for Stadium of the Year by StadiumDB.

“For 2021 we have an amazing shortlist of finalists across the categories,” Nuttall said. “Our expert Judging Panel will have its work cut out determining a single winner in each category ahead of our Winners’ Party in Manchester on 30 November. Meanwhile, our congratulations to all TheStadiumBusiness Awards 2021 finalists for making the cut. They are all winners and champions for our industry.”

For more information, visit stadiumbusinesssummit.com/awards.

Cece Kizer drilled a 69th-minute penalty kick as Racing Louisville FC rallied to draw with NJ/NY Gotham FC on Sunday in its inaugural season finale.

The ladies in lavender finished their campaign on a high note, coming back from losing positions in their final three games to earn points in a victory Oct. 16 over the Orlando Pride before leveling with Gotham FC both Thursday and Sunday of this week.

Racing finished 5-12-7. Its 22 points are the most accumulated by an NWSL expansion side in its debut year.

“It’s a great way to end the season,” said interim head coach Mario Sanchez. “We got better every game, and I think we were starting to see what the team’s capable of. I’m really, really proud of the team. They’ve continuously showed their character.”

Kizer’s penalty — set up by a Savannah McCaskill cross and ensuing Allie Long handball in the box — was hammered into the upper-right corner to equalize. It marked the fifth goal of Kizer’s season and the first penalty converted for Racing in an NWSL game.

The strike also dulled the celebration that occurred 15 minutes earlier at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. Retiring U.S. legend Carli Lloyd headed in an Elizabeth Eddy cross from the left side to go out as a goal scorer in her final regular season game.

“I like taking penalties,” Kizer said. “I like that pressure and told some of the girls in the locker room I kind of smiled before I took it. I was confident going up there. The girls on the field were confident in me. They said to go up and take my shot, and I buried it.

“…We’re motivated to get another one after we see Carli Lloyd get that goal. It was a classic Carli Lloyd goal. But I think we just took it to them in the second half. We were knocking at the door — had a couple opportunities — and I thought we could get one if we kept the pressure on.”

While Racing will now look toward 2022, Gotham FC qualified for the six-team NWSL playoffs, giving the club a shot to advance to the league final set for Nov. 20 at Louisville’s Lynn Family Stadium.

“It’s almost a bit frustrating,” said defender Gemma Bonner of the season’s end. “Obviously it’s not ideal for us and what we’ve planned on doing — going down early in games — but I think it shows the character of the team. We’re showing in glimpses what we’re capable of. It’s just unfortunate it’s too late that we’re starting to pick up the points.

“It’s definitely something to build on — the first year together — and I definitely think there’s lots of positives to take from the latter part of the season. We’ll look to come back stronger next year.”

Racing’s attack offered little before the penalty, with forward Ebony Salmon managing three shots in her time on the pitch, the best of them a curler that called for a save early in the second half.

Defensively, however, Racing bent but didn’t break despite a notable early substitution. In her return appearance from the U.S. Women’s National Team, star outside back Emily Fox left in the 16th minute under concussion protocol.

Racing was out-shot 14-5 but allowed only two of those attempts to land on target. In the end, it was a familiar result for these two teams, who played to draws in each of their four meetings this year.

Game Summary: NJ/NY Gotham FC vs. Racing Louisville FC

Date: Oct. 31, 2021

Venue: Red Bull Arena

Kickoff: 3 p.m.

Weather: 65 degrees, partly cloudy

Player of the Match: Cece Kizer

Scoring

Gotham FC (0, 1, 1)

Racing Louisville FC (0, 1, 1)

Goals

Gotham FC:

53’ Carli Lloyd (Elizabeth Eddy)

Racing Louisville FC:

68’ Cece Kizer

Lineups

Gotham FC: 1-Kailen Sheridan, 22-Mandy Freeman, 19-Elizabeth Eddy, 12-Gina Lewandowski (58’ 8-Erika Skroski), 3-Caprice Dydasco, 9-Nahomi Kawasumi, 16-Allie Long (79’ 11 Lee So-Dam), 7-McCall Zerboni (58’ 6-Jennifer Cudjoe), 25-Ifeoma Onumonu (58’ 4-Paige Monoghan), 10-Carli Lloyd (71’ 20-Evelyne Viens), 23-Margaret Purce (64’ 27-Gaetane Thiney)

Subs not used: 13-DiDi Haracic, 17-Domi Richardson, 14-Kenie Wright

Head Coach: Scott Parkinson

Racing Louisville FC: 23-Katie Lund, 11-Emily Fox (16’ 14-Nealy Martin, 63’ 3-Erin Simon), 16-Julia Ashley, 18-Kaleigh Riehl, 4-Gemma Bonner, 2-Lauren Milliet (63’ 19-Taylor Otto), 7-Savannah McCaskill, 8-Freja Olofsson, 17-Yuki Nagasato (85’ 13-Emina Ekic), 5-Cece Kizer, 9-Ebony Salmon (62’ 22-Katie McClure)

Subs not used: 21-Shelby Money, 33-Jorian Baucom, 12-Sinclaire Miramontez, 20-Cheyna Matthews

Head Coach: Mario Sanchez

Stats Summary: Gotham FC / Racing

Shots: 14 / 5

Shots on Goal: 3 / 2

Possession: 63.3% / 36.7%

Corner Kicks: 7 / 2

Fouls: 10 / 11

Offside: 5 / 1

Discipline

Gotham FC: 45’+ Margaret Purce (yellow)

Racing: 54’ Ebony Salmon (yellow)

Gotham FC: 72’ Mandy Freeman (yellow)

Racing: 81’ Yuki Nagasato (yellow)

Referee: Karen Abt

Racing Louisville FC enters its inaugural season finale with a shot at some NWSL history.

By earning 21 points so far, it has already eclipsed the prior record of 19 for a league expansion team set by the Orlando Pride in 2016. With a victory Sunday over NJ/NY Gotham FC, the club could also surpass Orlando’s high mark for points per game of 0.95.

Racing’s points per game average would land on exactly 1 in the event of a win; at 0.91 with a draw; and 0.87 with a loss.

Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J., and Racing-Gotham FC will air on CBS Sports Network given some playoff implications in the matchup.

Pending other results around the league, Gotham FC could have to continue its battle to clinch a playoff spot, entering the weekend needing at least a point from this game to officially qualify.

It’s a quick turnaround for both sides, which battled to a 1-1 draw on Thursday at Lynn Family Stadium. That game — originally scheduled for Oct. 1 — was postponed to set up a home-and-home series of sorts to end the 2021 campaign.

Here’s more of what to watch for Sunday…

Interim Coach Mario Sanchez says…

“I thought it was a great way to end the season — well, end of our home fixtures. (I’m) extremely proud of the team. I think what people are starting to see is the character. Week in and week out I’ve continued to talk about the character of this team, and you know the last two games I think have exemplified what they’re about as human beings.

“To play teams that are fighting for the playoffs — to go a goal down and come back, it speaks volumes about them as people, about our players, about our culture that is being developed. Extremely proud of them and looking forward to Sunday to go at it again.”

Follow along

For Starting XI and in-game updates, follow @RacingLouFC on Twitter and Racing Louisville FC on Facebook. Also find us at @racinglouisvillefc on Instagram.

Watch the match on CBS Sports Network with play by play from JP Dellacamera and color commentary by Lori Lindsey. Internationally, fans can also stream the match on Twitch. 

Notes to know

Playoff race: Although Racing has been eliminated from the postseason, it’s of interest with the Nov. 20 NWSL Championship game being played in Louisville. Portland Thorns FC, OL Reign and the Washington Spirit have locked up three of six spots. The Chicago Red Stars, Gotham FC and Houston Dash occupied the other three playoff positions going into the weekend.

Playing spoiler: Racing officially knocked Orlando out of postseason contention with a 3-1 victory two games back on Oct. 16. The Gotham FC draw on Thursday at least delayed Sunday’s foe from celebrating its own clinching moment. If Racing defeats Gotham FC, wins this weekend by Houston and the North Carolina Courage could leave Gotham on the outside.

Comeback club: Racing conceded in the third minute of the Orlando game earlier this month before allowing a goal in the seventh minute Thursday to Gotham FC. In both instances, the ladies in lavender rallied from a losing position to earn a result — a first for Racing in consecutive games.

Draws aplenty: Score lines suggest Racing and Gotham have been evenly matched this season. All three of their meetings — a scoreless draw in the Challenge Cup, 1-1 tie and New Jersey on Aug. 15 and Thursday’s result — ended with points shared. Back in August, it was Gotham FC doing the equalizing in the second half before Louisville took on that role in the most recent meeting.

Scoring touch: Working the counter attack Thursday, Cece Kizer slotted in her fourth regular season goal and sixth goal across all NWSL competitions. The sixth tally was a significant one, as it tied her with fellow forward Ebony Salmon for most (so far) by a single player in lavender.

In the zone: A game after scoring her first professional goal in the Orlando victory, forward Katie McClure registered her first Racing assist Thursday. McClure settled a long pass forward by Lauren Milliet and pushed to the center of the field before laying off a pass to Kizer, leading to Racing’s equalizing goal versus Gotham FC.

Between the posts: Katie Lund will finish the season as Racing’s starting goalkeeper with team captain Michelle Betos continuing to heal from a recent hand injury. Lund, her of Racing’s win in The Women’s Cup final back in August, numbered a career-high six saves in the Gotham FC draw, including a key stop early before the visitors were able to score on the rebound.

Red, white and blue: Defender Emily Fox figures to be back in the rotation Sunday after going a full 90 minutes for the U.S. Women’s National Team in its 6-0 Tuesday victory over Korea Republic. Fox, the No. 1 NWSL draft pick earlier this year, earned her sixth cap with the appearance and made it her fourth career start for the U.S.

Injury report

• Addisyn Merrick – Out / SEI
• Nadia Nadim – Out /SEI
• Michelle Betos – Out 

Milestone watch

Savannah McCaskill is one appearance from her 65th NWSL regular season appearance. 

Yuki Nagasato is one start from her 60th NWSL regular season start.

Racing Louisville FC has since been eliminated from contention to make the NWSL playoffs, but the ladies in lavender have turned into a bit of a postseason spoiler.

A game after eliminating the Orlando Pride with a win, Racing played NJ/NY Gotham FC to a 1-1 draw Thursday night in its home finale, delaying Gotham’s push to clinch a playoff spot.

Louisville’s Cece Kizer scored her sixth goal across all competitions to equalize after a magic moment from the retiring U.S. legend Carli Lloyd spotted the visitors an early lead.

The result moved Racing to 5-12-6 with one game to go —a quick turnaround to a rematch Sunday with Gotham at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. The game will kick off at 3 p.m. on CBS Sports Network.

“I thought it was a great way to end the season — well, end of our home fixtures,” said interim coach Mario Sanchez. “(I’m) extremely proud of the team. I think what people are starting to see is the character. Week in and week out I’ve continued to talk about the character of this team, and you know the last two games I think have exemplified what they’re about as human beings.

“To play teams that are fighting for the playoffs — to go a goal down and come back, it speaks volumes about them as people, about our players, about our culture that is being developed. Extremely proud of them and looking forward to Sunday to go at it again.”

Racing made this a third draw against Gotham in as many meetings this year after the clubs played a scoreless game in the preseason Challenge Cup and to a 1-1 result on Aug. 15 in New Jersey.

Despite an evenly played contest, Gotham maximized on some individual brilliance from Lloyd to move ahead in just the seventh minute.

A dribbling Lloyd — two days removed from her U.S. Women’s National Team sendoff — made a pair of defenders miss before laying off to Ifeoma Onumonu at the face of goal. Racing goalkeeper Katie Lund saved an attempt before Onumonu finished a rebounding try.

“I’m honestly honored to be sharing the field with Carli,” said Racing forward Katie McClure. “She’s an amazing player. Just watching the game, the last U.S. national team game, I kind of got a little teary eyed because I was sad for her, but she’s had a great, great career.

“Honestly proud that I stepped on the field with her, competed with her, and I think our team is too. It’s a great tie and I think that we go on Sunday and try to look for the win.”

Racing matched on a 52nd-minute counter attack, with Katie McClure feeding Kizer to register her first professional assist a game after scoring her first pro goal in the Orlando win.

“I think it is a testament to our resilience,” Kizer said. “I think that is something that a lot of us have talked about in the locker room, and that we want to have that identity of being a resilient team and you come into Louisville here and it’s a tough place to play. It’s not ideal to concede early, but I think for all of us it’s: They get one and we can put one right back.

“We know that we can counter quickly and get balls in the back of the net, and so I think that we need to continue that mindset into the Sunday game and into the next season.”

Gotham had the majority of chances after Racing knotted the score, though Louisville arguably had the better look for a late game winner. Into second half stoppage time, forward Cheyna Matthews shrugged off a defender in the box and had her ensuing shot saved.

Gotham tried 19 shots to Racing’s nine, and 16 of those attempts came from inside the box. Lund saved six shots, with Louisville’s defense stepping up to block seven others.

Gotham will play for its postseason Sunday, but there’s still something at stake for Racing. The club has already tallied more points this season — 21 — than prior NWSL expansion teams. The ladies in lavender can also make it more points per game in their inaugural campaign than the 2016 Orlando Pride (0.95) and 2014 Houston Dash (0.75) with a victory Sunday.

Game Summary: Racing Louisville FC vs. NJ/NY Gotham FC

Date: Oct. 28, 2021

Venue: Lynn Family Stadium

Kickoff: 7:30 p.m.

Weather: 52 degrees, rain

Player of the Match: Cece Kizer

Attendance: 6,508

Scoring

Racing Louisville FC (0, 1, 1)

Gotham FC (1, 0, 1)

Goals

Racing Louisville FC:

52’ Cece Kizer (Katie McClure)

Gotham FC:

7’ Ifeoma Onumonu

Lineups

Racing Louisville FC: 23-Katie Lund, 16-Julia Ashley, 18-Kaleigh Riehl, 4-Gemma Bonner, 14-Nealy Martin (85’ 12-Sinclaire Miramontez), 19-Taylor Otto (59’ 8-Freja Olofsson), 17-Yuki Nagasato, 2-Lauren Milliet, 22-Katie McClure (72’ 20-Cheyna Matthews), 5-Cece Kizer, 9-Ebony Salmon (59’ 7-Savannah McCaskill)

Subs not used: 21-Shelby Money, 3-Erin Simon, 11-Emily Fox, 33-Jorian Baucom, 13-Emina Ekic

Head Coach: Mario Sanchez

Gotham FC: 1-Kailen Sheridan, 3-Caprice Dydasco, 19-Liz Eddy, 22-Mandy Freeman, 12-Gina Lewandowski, 16-Allie Long, 7-McCall Zerboni, 9-Nahomi Kawasumi (68’ 4-Paige Monoghan), 10-Carli Lloyd, 23-Margaret Purce, 25-Ifeoma Onumonu (82’ 20-Evelyn Viens)

Subs not used: 13-Did Haracic, 6-Jennifer Cudjoe, 8-Erika Skroski, 11-Sodam Lee, 17-Domi Richardson, 24-Estelle Johnson, 27-Gaetane Thiney

Head Coach: Scott Parkinson

Stats Summary: Racing / Gotham FC

Shots: 9 / 19

Shots on Goal: 3 / 7

Possession: 45% / 55%

Corner Kicks: 3 / 11

Fouls: 10 / 11

Offside: 1 / 3

Discipline

Racing Louisville: 16’ Julia Ashley (yellow)

Gotham FC: 90’ Carli Lloyd (yellow)

Referee: Samantha Martinez