The idea of a new club being required to climb up what is likely to be a three-tier pyramid from the bottom could be offputting, especially if MLS resumes expansion and provides a more direct – if far more costly – route into a top-tier league.
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Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
And next Saturday, March 22, the women face their Stoke City counterparts in the final of the National League Cup, a knockout competition open to the 72 teams that make up steps three and four in the English women’s pyramid.
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