After months of offseason planning, new coaching hires, new signings and weeks of preseason preparation, the 2025 NWSL regular season is finally here – and it's time to predict how it will all shake out.

Last season the NWSL turned heads with international players taking center stage, with Barbra Banda to Temwa Chawinga seemingly scoring almost every time they touched the ball. And then there were Brazilian stars such as Marta, Adriana and Angelina putting the Orlando Pride on the map.

In Chawinga's first NWSL season last year, she was named the league's most valuable player. A Malawi native, she led the league with an NWSL single-season record of 20 goals to al