Overview
- Ally Watt, who grew up in Colorado Springs, has become Denver Summit FC’s first-ever player after her rights were traded from the Orlando Pride.
- Using newly approved intra-league loan rules, Denver immediately loaned Watt back to Orlando Pride for the remainder of the 2025 season.
- Orlando Pride received $75,000 in expansion allocation money, $37,500 in transfer funds and salary cap relief as part of the transaction.
- The deal underscores the league’s push to bolster expansion clubs through allocation money and intra-league loans approved in the 2025 collective bargaining agreement.
- Denver Summit FC will debut in the 2026 NWSL season and can spend its expansion allocation funds through the end of 2027 before the resources phase out.