The Angel City Football Club is one of USA TODAY’s 2026 Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and beyond. Meet this year's honorees here.
If you’re heading to your first Angel City Football Club home game at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, you will experience a vibe. Girls wearing too-large player jerseys − their dads in pink wigs. PodeRosas, a group of Spanish-speaking supporters, chanting, "Dale, dale, ACFC. Dale, Angel City."
You'll see grandmas and girlfriends. Celebrity owners and families. Huge flags in the team’s colors, black and Sol Rosa − a dusty pink representing the Southern California sun and horizon. The omnipresent bass drums will make you want to dance.
And when the home team scores, everyone will be on their feet.
Willow Bay, journalist and dean of the USC Annenberg School, remembers her first game. It was the team’s inaugural season, and it was electric. “I was blown away,” she says. “It just felt special. It felt different, and it felt joyful in a way that kind of took my breath away.”
