Monday, September 1, at 6:00 p.m., Angel City Football Club hosts Bay FC for a Labor Day rivalry match. The game will be broadcast on CBS Sports Network and air regionally on FanDuel Sports Network. English- and Spanish-language radio will be available on iHeart and KFWB, respectively. Tickets are available here.
Angel City’s last regular-season game was a 1–0 home win against the Orlando Pride on August 21. Forward Alyssa Thompson scored the lone goal in that game.
Bay’s last match was a 2–3 loss to Washington Spirit at home. Forward Racheal Kundananji and defender Kelli Hubly notched the home team’s two consolation goals.
ACFC’s last matchup with Bay was a 0–2 loss on May 17 in San Jose. They are 0–2–0 all-time against the 2024 expansion team in the regular season.
Angel City are currently in 10th place with a 5–7–5 record. Bay are in 12th at 4–8–5.
After making the playoffs in their inaugural 2024 season, Bay have struggled in 2025, having been winless since June 7 (4L, 2D). Their top scorer last season, former Barcelona star Asisat Oshoala, notched seven regular-season goals; in 12 appearances so far in 2025, she has yet to find the back of the net.
One bright spot has been forward Penelope Hocking, the team’s current scoring leader. A onetime USC standout who notched 61 collegiate goals (54 for USC, seven for Penn State after transferring before her senior season), Hocking was selected seventh overall in the 2023 NWSL Draft by the Chicago Red Stars, ultimately spending a season and a half with the club—where she recorded a respectable seven goals in 29 appearances—before making the move to San Jose in August of 2024.
The trade has paid dividends for Bay, as the 25-year-old has already notched five goals in just 13 games played, an improvement over her time in Chicago.
Forwards Caroline Conti and Racheal Kundananji are two more players to watch for; both have three assists on the season, in addition to two and three goals, respectively.
Though ACFC only scored one goal last week—off a gorgeous strike by forward Alyssa Thompson—the team dominated offensively, with contributions from players all over the field.
All told, Angel City recorded 23 shots, including seven on target, with 10 different players contributing. In addition, eight different players had at least one chance created, for 16 total; Thompson and midfielder Kennedy Fuller were co-leaders in that stat, with four each.
One standout player was defender Evelyn Shores, who has been starting at left back while defender Gisele Thompson recovers from injury. Shores has made an impact on both sides of the ball. Against Orlando, she recorded a team-leading four interceptions, as well as three shots, including two from inside the box.
Shores, who signed with Angel City during the summer break, is yet another young talent on a team that already had tremendous upside in players like the Thompson sisters, Fuller, forward Riley Tiernan, and midfielders Macey Hodge and Maiara Niehues. At the University of North Carolina, where she spent two seasons before opting to go pro, Shores compiled five goals and four assists in 23 appearances, in addition to earning a goal and an assist in the 2024 NCAA tournament, which the Tar Heels went on to win.