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Reign vs Thorns: By the Numbers (2013- )

NWSL Era – Reign vs Thorns (2013- ) [as of 5/13/2024]

League

Home (form): 8-4-2 GD: 24-12 [LLWWDWWLWWWWDL]

Away: 5-6-3 GD: 13-17 [LLWLWDLDWLWWDL]

Neutral 0-0-0 GD: 0-0

Total: 13-10-5 GD: 37-29 [LLLLWWLWWDDLWDWLWWLWWWWWDDLL]

Playoffs

Home: 0-0-0 GD: 0-0

Away: 0-1-0 GD: 1-2 [L]

Total: 0-1-0 GD: 1-2 [L]

Challenge Cup (incl. Fall ’20)

Home:  0-1-2 GD: 2-3 [LDD]

Away:  2-2-0 GD: 3-6 [LLWW]

Neutral: 0-0-1 GD: 0-0 [D]

Total:  2-3-3 GD: 4-9 [DLDWWD]

Extremes

Record Win: 5-0, Memorial Stadium, 7/27/2014

Record Defeat: 1-4, Providence Park, 9/30/2020

Record Total Goals:  5, Seattle 5:0 Portland, 7/27/2014; Seattle 3:2 Portland, 5/5/2018; Portland 4:1 Seattle, 9/30/2020

Doubles (win home & away same season): 4/2

Top Attendance

Home: 42,054 (6/3/2023)

Away: 25,218 (9/16/2023)

Individual Leaders

Goals: 11–Christine Sinclair (P); 9-Megan Rapinoe (S); 5–Lindsay Horan (P), Beverly Yanez (S); 3–Jess Fishlock (S), Hina Sugita (P), Kim Little (S), Jodie Taylor (S), Bethany Balcer (S)

Hat Tricks: None

Multi-Goal Games: 3–Christine Sinclair (P); 2–Megan Rapinoe (S); 1–Lindsay Horan (P), Manon Melis (S), Hayley Raso (P), Beverly Yanez (S)

Assists: 4–Kim Little (S), Jess Fishlock; 3–Sophia Smith (P), Naho Kawasumi (S), Beverly Yanez (S), Lindsey Horan (P), Meghan Klingenberger (P); 2–Allie Long (P/S), Megan Rapinoe (S), Mana Shim (P), Christine Sinclair (P), Shirley Cruz (S)

3-Assist Game: Sophia Smith (P)

Multi-Assist Games: 2–Kim Little (S); 1–Theresa Nielsen (S), Lindsey Horan (P), Sophia Smith (P)

Shutouts:  4– Haley Kopmeyer (S) 4; 3–Casey Murphy (S), 3–Michelle Betos (P/S); 3–Bella Bixby (P), 2–Laurel Ivory (S), 2–Shelby Hogan (P), 2–Karina LeBlanc (P); 1–Nadine Angerer (P), Hope Solo (S), Lydia Williams (S), Adriana Franch (P), Phallon Tullis-Joyce (S)

Appearances: 34-Christine Sinclair (P); 33–Lauren Barnes (S); 26-Jess Fishlock (S); 26–Meghan Klingenberg (P); 25–Emily Menges (P), 23–Allie Long (P/S); 19-Beverly Yanez (S); 18–Bethany Balcer (S); 17-Lindsey Horan (P); 17-Megan Rapinoe (S), 15–Kelli Hubly (P); 14–Stephanie Cox (S); 13–Morgan Weaver (P), 13-Keelin Winters (S), 12-Kiersten Dallstream (S), 12–Mana Shim (P); 12–Sofia Huerta (S)

Coaching Records:  Cindy Cone (P) 4-0-0; Laura Harvey (S) 9-10-7; Paul Riley (P) 1-4-0; Vlatko Andonovski (S) 5-2-0; Mark Parsons (P) 7-9-5; Farid Benstiti (S) 1-3-1; Rhian Wilkinson (P) 0-1-2; Mike Norris (P) 2-1-1, Rob Gale (P) 1-0-0

Sent off: None

Notes

On Aug. 29, 2021, the Reign and Thorns played as part of a doubleheader with Sounders-Timbers at Lumen Field, with the Reign establishing a new NWSL single game attendance record of 27,278. That record fell in 2023 with 42,054 for another Reign-Sounders doubleheader.

MLS, Seattle Sounders FC

In Search of the Borderline

One-hundred seventy-three miles separate the Cascadian battlefields of CenturyLink Field and Providence Park. In between are significant mileposts positioned along Interstate 5: Tacoma, Olympia, Centralia, Longview and Vancouver.

And somewhere between where Merritt Paulson placed his Soccer City signage in 2011 and the state borderline under the Columbia lies the dividing line, where the Rave yields to the deeper green color of the arch-rival.

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Graphic courtesy Likkit Pocinwong

Throughout the world of football there are myriad rationale why fans flock to one side of a derby or another. In close quarters it will likely be differences of religion, social class, political ties or cultural heritage. Generally, however, geography is always a factor. The next most proximate league club to one’s neighborhood is thine enemy. And so it is with Seattle and Portland, and it has been since territorial times of Oregon and Washington.

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