The New England Mutiny are a women's soccer club based in Ludlow, Massachusetts. They compete in the USL W League, in the amateur level of the United States league system, and play their home games at Lusitano Stadium. Founded in 1999 as the Springfield Sirens, the club commenced play in the original incarnation of the W League, before moving to the Women's Premier Soccer League in 2003, and joining a secession of WPSL clubs to become a founding member of United Women's Soccer in 2016. The Mutiny returned to the W League in 2026.
History
Established in 1999 as Springfield Sirens, the club played in the amateur W-League. After winning the W-2 (second division) championship in 2000, the club played one more season in the W-League, then a season as an exhibition team before changing the team name to the New England Mutiny and accepting promotion to WPSL as one of the founding members of the East Division. On July 29, 2004, in a match preparing women's national team of China for international tournament, the Mutiny surprised the fifth ranked team in the world, in front of 3000 fans in Agawam, Massachusetts, with a 3–1 lead, and losing 4–3 only in the final minutes. The Mutiny consider this match one of their two crowning achievements.
After the folding of WPS in 2012, the club joined the new Women's Premier Soccer League Elite, which included three former WPS teams. Although they finished fifth out of the eight WPSLE teams, they recorded wins over the Chicago Red Stars and Boston Breakers as well as a draw at the Western New York Flash – the former WPS teams – in the last month of the season. Their win over the Breakers is the first occurrence of an amateur side beating a professional side in US women's soccer, (Chicago fielded an amateur roster in WPSLE,) and is the second of the Mutiny's crowning achievements. WPSL-Elite lasted just one year as the former WPS teams joined the newly formed National Women's Soccer League, while the remaining teams either folded or, like the Mutiny, returned to the WPSL in 2013. The Mutiny spent three further years in the WPSL, but after dissatisfaction with playoff procedures and handling in the WPSL, the team branched off to join the inaugural 2016 season of United Women's Soccer.
Team
Notable former players
The following former players have played at the senior international and/or professional level: Sylvia Gee (Springfield Sirens) Ellie Jean Sonya Maher (Springfield Sirens) Geraldine O'Shea (Springfield Sirens) Margaret Saurin (Springfield Sirens) Claire Scanlan (Springfield Sirens)
Seasons
List of New England Mutiny seasons Season League Playoffs 1999 USL-W2 12 9 3 0 27 10 +17 1st of 6 Runners-up 2000 USL-W2 12 11 1 0 35 19 +16 1st of 6 Champions 2001 USL-W 14 9 2 3 33 14 +19 4th of 8 2002 2003 WPSL 8 7 0 1 28 5 +23 1st of 4 National semi-finals 2004 WPSL 10 10 0 0 41 6 +35 1st of 6 Runners-up 2005 WPSL 13 13 0 0 38 7 31 1st of 8 National semi-finals 2006 WPSL 10 6 1 3 24 13 +11 3rd of 8 2007 WPSL 10 7 3 0 34 3 +31 1st of 8 Runners-up 2008 WPSL 12 10 0 2 46 7 +39 2nd of 7 National semi-finals 2009 WPSL 10 4 0 6 19 14 +5 8th of 14 2010 WPSL 10 3 3 4 17 11 +6 3rd of 6 2011 WPSL 10 4 3 3 10 10 +0 4th of 7 2012 WPSLE 14 6 3 5 25 34 –9 5th of 8 2013 WPSL 10 5 0 5 19 5 +14 1st of 6 National semi-finals 2014 WPSL 10 4 2 4 31 18 +13 3rd of 6 2015 WPSL 10 8 0 2 22 7 +15 1st of 5 Regional finals 2016 UWS 10 6 0 4 21 16 +5 2nd of 6 2017 UWS 10 7 0 3 23 10 +13 3rd of 8 2018 UWS 10 4 2 4 19 17 +2 6th of 9 2019 UWS 10 8 2 0 30 7 +23 1st of 8 Conference final 2020 UWS 2021 UWS 10 3 4 3 24 18 +6 8th of 13 2022 UWS 10 9 0 1 27 8 +9 1st of 6 Conference semi-finals 2023 UWS 8 4 2 2 20 11 +9 6th of 17 Regional semi-finals 2024 UWS 10 10 0 0 38 4 +34 1st of 18 Runners-up 2025 UWS 7 7 0 0 23 3 +20 1st of 12 Runners-up 2026 USLW 10 2 2 6 15 17 –2 4th of 5 Did not qualify 2026 UWS
Honors
USL W-League 2 Winners (1): 2000 Runners-up (1): 1999
Women's Premier Soccer League Runners-up (2): 2004, 2007
United Women's Soccer Runners-up (2): 2024, 2025
References
External links
Official Site UWS Page