Saturday, May 24, at 7:00 p.m. Pacific, Angel City Football Club is back at home against Racing Louisville FC. The game will stream live on ION, with radio broadcasts on iHeart and KFWB in English and Spanish, respectively. You can buy tickets here.
Angel City’s last game was a 0–2 loss on the road at Bay FC. Forward Penelope Hocking and midfielder Caroline Conti were the goalscorers for the hosts.
Louisville also lost last week, at home 0–1 against Seattle.
ACFC last faced Louisville on September 14, 2024, losing 1–2. They are 2–2–2 (W–L–D) all-time against Racing.
LA are currently in seventh place with a 4–3–2 record. Louisville are in 11th at 3–4–2.
Louisville’s middling start has been somewhat better, points-wise, than their 2024 campaign, which was 1–2–6 after week 9, but it’s been worse in terms of goals scored and conceded: at this point last year, Racing had scored 14 goals and allowed 12, compared with nine scored and 14 conceded so far this season.
The club’s offseason acquisitions focused heavily on rookies coming out of college. Defender Ella Hase, forward Sarah Weber, defender Allie George, midfielder Katie O’Kane, goalkeeper Maddy Anderson, and midfielder Avery Kalitta all signed with Louisville ahead of 2025.
A bright spot this year has been forward Emma Sears, who the team picked up in the 2024 NWSL Draft out of Ohio State. After a strong rookie season that saw her contribute five goals and an assist, Sears is off to an even better start, leading the team in scoring with four on the season—almost half the team’s production thus far.
Midfielder Savannah DeMelo, a USC alum who has been a standout for Racing since her rookie 2022 season, has a goal and two assists in 510 minutes.
Angel City has made two roster additions in the last two weeks, adding training player Sophia Mattice to the active roster ahead of last week’s match in San Jose, then announcing Iceland international Sveindís Jane Jónsdóttir earlier this week. Mattice made her debut against Bay FC, subbing in for midfielder Kennedy Fuller at the end of regulation time.
Jónsdóttir, who signed through 2027, arrives via transfer with Frauen-Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg following the conclusion of the UEFA European Championship with Iceland Women’s National Team. She played four seasons with Wolfsburg, tallying 22 goals and 16 assists in 93 appearances and winning the league in 2022. Prior to her move to Germany, she won an Icelandic championship with Breiðablik, also winning the Golden Boot and Úrvalsdeild Player of the Year awards. In 2022, she was named Icelandic Women’s Footballer of the Year.
Originally from Keflavík, Iceland, Jónsdóttir has earned 48 caps with the Iceland Women’s National Team, tallying 12 goals and 12 assists. Debuting for the senior roster in September 2020, where she scored her first international career brace, she also competed for the U19 Iceland Women’s National Team where she scored 10 goals and seven assists.