2020 NWSL Challenge Cup Championship

The 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup Championship was a soccer match held on July 26, 2020, at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy, Utah. It was the final match of the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup, a one-off competition marking the resumption of the 2020 National Women's Soccer League season following the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The match was played behind closed doors due to the pandemic and was broadcast on CBS beginning at 12:30 ET.

Houston Dash won the match 2–0 against Chicago Red Stars to win the tournament.

The 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup was a one-off tournament during the 2020 NWSL season to mark the league's return to action from the COVID-19 pandemic. Eight National Women's Soccer League teams participated in the tournament. The tournament, played behind closed doors in the Salt Lake City area, began on June 27 with a preliminary round, followed by a knockout round.

Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first.

Houston Dash

Chicago Red Stars

GK 1 Jane Campbell RB 9 Haley Hanson  82' CB 11 Megan Oyster CB 25 Katie Naughton LB 2 Allysha Chapman CM 6 Shea Groom CM 13 Sophie Schmidt CM 19 Kristie Mewis  29' RW 8 Nichelle Prince  87' CF 3 Rachel Daly (c) LW 14 Brianna Visalli  78' Substitutes: GK 20 Lindsey Harris GK 99 Amanda Dennis DF 17 Erin Simon  89'  87' DF 23 Ally Prisock MF 5 CeCe Kizer  29' MF 10 Christine Nairn MF 28 Cami Privett FW 4 Maegan Kelly FW 7 Katie Stengel FW 12 Veronica Latsko  78' FW 16 Kayla McCoy FW 24 Jamia Fields FW 26 Bridgette Andrzejewski Manager: James Clarkson

GK 1 Alyssa Naeher RB 28 Kayla Sharples  4'  68' CB 11 Sarah Gorden CB 8 Julie Ertz (c) LB 29 Bianca St. Georges  89' CM 24 Danielle Colaprico CM 10 Vanessa DiBernardo CM 9 Savannah McCaskill  78' RW 2 Kealia Watt CF 5 Rachel Hill LW 33 Katie Johnson  79' Substitutes: GK 21 Emily Boyd GK 38 Cassie Miller DF 14 Zoe Morse  79' DF 23 Julia Bingham  89' DF 30 Hannah Davison DF 32 Zoey Goralski  68' MF 25 Cassie Rohan FW 7 Michele Vasconcelos FW 15 Makenzy Doniak  78' FW 19 Sarah Luebbert FW 22 Zoe Redei Manager: Rory Dames

The match aired on CBS and CBS All Access in the United States and Canada, and on Twitch internationally.^[2] Jenn Hildreth and Lori Lindsey served as play-by-play announcer and analyst respectively on CBS, reporting remotely, while Mike Watts and Jen Cooper did the same on Twitch. Marisa Pilla was the on-field reporter. Most of the show's production staff operated off-site, including a fully remote integration model production, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television in the United States.^[3][4]

CBS Sports soccer reporter Sandra Herrera and studio host Sherree Burruss hosted the pre- and post-game shows on CBS Sports HQ along with Aly Wagner. Alex Morgan also joined the pregame show.

The match registered a 0.44 Nielsen rating and 653,000 viewers, becoming the league's largest-ever domestic broadcast audience. The match viewership represented a 293-percent increase over the 2019 NWSL Championship match.^[4]

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