USL W League
Women’s Soccer Belongs in Knoxville.
About
On March 8, 2025, One Knoxville Sporting Club announced its expansion into the USL W League ahead of the 2025 season. Read more here.
The USL W League will serve as the nation’s premier pre-professional league developing the next generation of women’s talent both on and off the field, enhancing the women’s soccer pipeline between college and professional soccer. The USL W League strives to use women’s soccer as a force for societal good by creating a national platform to increase opportunity, gender equity, and career development. The League and its member clubs are committed to investing in women’s soccer – through not only financial resources but also with time, energy, and attention – and are united in our mission to grow the women’s game.
The W League is dedicated to inspiring women and creating change both on and off the field. By placing an emphasis on career development, the USL W League will provide its athletes with tools and resources to help prepare them for the transition to their post-playing careers.
To learn more about the league, which debuted in 2022, visit uslwleague.com.
2025
One Knoxville SC Women are set to kick off on May 10th, and will play their season inside Covenant Health Park, in the Old City, Downtown Knoxville.
A regular season will see six home games and six away games commence from May through June with a potential postseason following in July.
The South Central Division in the Southern Conference is made up of One Knoxville SC, Asheville City, Birmingham Legion, Chattanooga Red Wolves, Greenville Liberty, Southern Soccer Academy and Tennessee SC.
Season Tickets and Single-Game tickets are now on sale. Tap the schedule to purchase yours now or visit https://www.oneknoxsc.com/usl-w-league-tickets/
Head Coach
Simon Duffy. Duffy enters his first season as One Knoxville SC Women’s Head Coach.
Duffy has spent eight seasons at the helm of the Carson-Newman women’s soccer program. Simon Duffy was announced as Carson-Newman women’s soccer’s seventh head coach on Dec. 26, 2016.
Since coming to Mossy Creek in 2017, Duffy has led the Eagles to a 77-31-14 overall record including a 48-15-9 mark within the South Atlantic Conference. Duffy has taken the program to three NCAA Tournaments, most recently during the 2023 season.
Duffy comes to Mossy Creek from King (Tenn.) University, where he spent six years heading up the women’s program. Prior to that, he devoted five seasons to coaching the women’s team at his alma mater, Lambuth University.
The native of Navan, Ireland got his first head coaching experience at Lambuth, the university he graduated from in 2003 with a degree in Psychology. He helped the program make a transition from NAIA to NCAA Division II during his time as coach. Before taking the reins at Lambuth, Duffy spent a year as an assistant for the Young Harris men’s soccer team. His first coaching experience came in 2003 and 2004, when he was the co-head coach of boys and girls soccer at Martin Westview High School in Martin, Tenn.
Duffy holds a USSF National ‘A’ Coaching License and an NSCAA Premier Diploma. He also holds a Football Association of Ireland Level 1 & Youth Coaching Diploma. Duffy is a coach for TN ODP & also is a coaching instructor for TN Soccer.
Simon is married to Lizzie Duffy. They have twins, Finn and Isabel.
“Expanding this Women’s First team is amazing… Selfishly, I’ve got a daughter in the [One Knoxville Youth] Club so to see her eyes light up when she found out we are going to have a [women’s first] team has been excellent. [Not just her] But the rest of the players on her team and in the academy [as well]… [for them] to be able to see [first team] girls that look like you, maybe a bit taller, move a bit faster, but to one day look and go, that’s what I want to be. I want to be that. I want to be on that team. That’s fantastic.” – Simon Duffy
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