NWSL Sunday night games are available for free on the Roku channel, with 8 games running through October

Watch the Women’s Professional Football League for free, now there’s an additional option. Roku announced that it has partnered with the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) to broadcast eight Sunday night games for free on The Roku Channel starting from August 30. The first game will be Seattle Reign FC vs. Houston Dash, and the final game will be October 25, when San Diego Wave FC will face Boston Legacy FC.

These events will be broadcast in the Roku Sports Channel area under The Roku Channel. This free App originally has a special area for highlights and highlights of the NWSL. This time it is equivalent to extending the content from clips to full event live broadcasts. Roku said that if the response to this wave of Sunday night games is good, the broadcast frequency will be increased to one game per week in the 2027 season.

The broadcast rights of the NWSL are currently scattered across multiple platforms, including CBS/Paramount+, ESPN, Ion, The Roku Channel, Amazon Prime Video, and the league's self-operated NWSL+. This kind of copyright cleavage situation is quite similar to the broadcast ecology of American professional baseball and American football in recent years. Viewers have to switch between different apps to follow the entire season.

Another time worth putting on the calendar is 2027, when Netflix will be the exclusive broadcast platform for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup in the United States. If you follow Roku to follow the NWSL season for free this year, you can just connect to the World Cup.