Kansas City Current beat Racing Louisville 2–0 in the final round of the NWSL regular season. The match was played on the evening of 1 November in the United States, early on 2 November in Jerusalem. Both goals were headers following corners, according to ESPN’s detailed event record.

Kayla Sharples scored in the 15th minute and Haley Hopkins added the second in the 59th. Vanessa DiBernardo supplied both deliveries after corners. Set pieces therefore have a specific, documented place in the account of this win, rather than the analysis relying only on Kansas City’s 57.8% possession share.

A home quarterfinal

Kansas City finished fourth with 53 points, one ahead of Angel City on 52, in the official final standings. The clubs meet at Kansas City on 7 November, as confirmed by the league’s quarterfinal announcement. Both clubs scored 54 regular-season goals, while Kansas City conceded 39 compared with Angel City’s 32. Their one-point separation in the table therefore coexists with equal scoring totals and different defensive records.

Archival cover photograph: Vanessa DiBernardo with Kansas City before a North Carolina match in September 2024; archival photograph, not the current Louisville game. Photographer/creator: Hameltion. Image source and metadata; CC BY-SA 4.0. The Wikimedia-supplied file is used without raster edits. Image date as recorded by the source: 2024-09-01 14:03:51.