{"id":21799,"date":"2025-08-04T12:34:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/denver-summit-fc-signs-ally-watt-first-signing-for-the-2026-nwsl\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T12:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:34:44","slug":"denver-summit-fc-signs-ally-watt-first-signing-for-the-2026-nwsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/denver-summit-fc-signs-ally-watt-first-signing-for-the-2026-nwsl\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver Summit FC Signs Ally Watt: First Signing for the 2026 NWSL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ally Watt Joins Denver Summit FC<\/h2>\n\n\nForward Ally Watt has been transferred from Orlando Pride to Denver Summit FC, the NWSL expansion team for 2026. This move makes Colorado native Watt the first player in the team&#8217;s history.\n\nWatt was immediately loaned to Orlando Pride, a club with which she won the NWSL Shield and the 2024 NWSL Championship, for the remainder of the 2025 season.\n\nThe Denver Summit FC will play its first season in the NWSL next year.\n\nIn return, Orlando received $75,000 in expansion allocation money, which can be spent until the end of 2027, and another $37,500 in transfer funds.\n\nThe Pride also got salary cap relief as part of the loan agreement.\n\nWatt played in Orlando&#8217;s first 13 matches this season, before missing Sunday&#8217;s match with an ankle injury. The 28-year-old player has one goal and one assist on the season.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0804%2Fr1527731_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Ally Watt\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El Denver Summit FC ha fichado a Ally Watt antes de la temporada inaugural del equipo en la NWSL en 2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nIt was previously reported that Denver was finalizing details to hire former Manchester City and New York City FC coach Nick Cushing for the same position.\n\nThe general manager of the Denver Summit FC, Curt Johnson, previously said that the team would rely on the rich pool of professional players with roots in Colorado.\n\nWatt grew up in Colorado Springs, where he excelled in soccer and track and field, including multiple state championships in track and field.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>One thing that makes us really unique is this group of talented Colorado players, players from the past, it&#8217;s special.<\/p>\n<cite>Curt Johnson<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nLoans between leagues are new to the NWSL this year and were approved along with other roster construction mechanisms for the 2026 expansion teams, Boston Legacy FC and Denver Summit FC.\n\nBoston and Denver have access to up to $1.065 billion in allocation money, allowing teams to spend outside the salary cap and transfer threshold. The league had previously announced that it was phasing out existing allocation money by December 31, 2026, but the allocation money originating with Boston and Denver can be spent until the end of 2027.\n\nIn the case of Watt&#8217;s transfer, that means Orlando has an additional year to use the $75,000.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ally Watt Joins Denver Summit FC Forward Ally Watt has been transferred from Orlando Pride to Denver Summit FC, the NWSL expansion team for 2026. This move makes Colorado native Watt the first player in the team&#8217;s history. Watt was immediately loaned to Orlando Pride, a club with which she won the NWSL Shield and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6813,6129,798,545],"class_list":{"0":"post-21799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ally-watt","9":"tag-denver-summit-fc","10":"tag-nwsl","11":"tag-trade"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}