Minnesota Aurora FC is a community-owned women’s soccer team born from a parking lot meeting in the depths of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, they consistently play in front of crowds larger than some ...

Minnesota Aurora FC, the Eagan-based pre-professional women’s soccer club, said it raised $895,000 in its second fundraising campaign that closed Friday. The campaign, carried out on crowdfunding ...

Minnesota Aurora and River Light FC played to a 1-1 draw Saturday in Aurora, Ill., which kept Aurora’s regular-season unbeaten streak alive. Aurora (1-1-0 in USL W League), didn’t lose a match in the ...

Minnesota Aurora has backed off its bid to become a professional women’s soccer club for the second time in three years. The amateur team sent a letter to its 3,080 community owners this week ...

Minnesota Aurora had an impressive inaugural season in the USL W League – finishing the regular season undefeated (11-0-1), winning the Heartland Division, and advancing to the Final of the USL W ...

The auction took place in cities scattered across the country, no one knowing the others’ bid, only that other hands were shooting up. And in December, when Denver pledged a record-breaking $110 ...

Jeff Kassouf covers women's soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women's soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and ...

EAGAN, Minn. --Aurora FC goalkeeper Sarah Fuller was visibly emotional as she reunited with her team after the final whistle. Tears covered her face as she embraced her teammates one by one. She had ...

Ruby Palm, 10, left, and her sister Wilder, 4, celebrate after the Minnesota Aurora score during the second half against Bavarian United SC at TCO Stadium in Eagan, on June 20. The Palm family has ...

Demand for women’s sports soared this year and is showing no signs of slowing down. “We’ve been met with nothing but positivity for the new team,” Minnesota Aurora president and chief operating ...

Maybe the Minnesota Aurora’s goal for 2025 is simple: more of the same. After all, this is still a team that’s never lost a regular-season game in the USL W League. It’s still a team that has averaged ...

Head Coach Nicole Lukic poses for a portrait after a practice session at TCO Stadium in Eagan, Minn. on July 11. CATHY WURZER: Glad you're with us here on Minnesota Now, from MPR News. I'm Cathy ...