Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) has released its schedule for 2010 yesterday; that is, Thursday, 18 February, 2010.

In 2010, WPS will expand to a 24-game regular season schedule in which each of the eight WPS teams will host 12 home games and play the other seven teams in the league three or four times each based mostly on regional rivalries. Opening weekend will include a full slate of four games on April 10-11 – the first time four WPS games will be played on one weekend – with a regular season of 96 total games running through Sunday, September 12.

WPS will take a break on the weekend of May 22 for national team commitments and 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup qualifying games. Games are mostly featured on Saturday and Sunday evenings with 12 midweek games scheduled on Wednesday nights starting in early June.

The national television schedule will kick off at 6pm Eastern Time on Sunday, April 11 with 2009 WPS Champion Sky Blue FC taking on the Chicago Red Stars at Yurcak Field in Piscataway, N.J. All eight WPS teams will be shown during the first month of the season and seven of the eight WPS venues will be featured on television in the first nine weeks of the regular season. Other television highlights for WPS Sunday on FSC include:

Four-time FIFA World Player of the Year, Marta, debuting with her new team, FC Gold Pride (Bay Area), during a special Saturday, May 1 at 6pm ET against Sky Blue FC.The national television debut of WPS expansion team Philadelphia Independence, as they travel to Boston to take on the Boston Breakers at 6pm ET on April 18.The opening of the first-ever stadium built specifically for a WPS team with the Atlanta Beat hosting Sky Blue FC on Sunday, May 9 in their home openerSan Francisco Bay Area’s FC Gold Pride hosting their first national television game at Pioneer Stadium on the campus of California State University, East Bay on June 27.A new mid-season WPS All-Star Game presented by US Coast Guard on June 30.Open dates on September 5 and 12 will be flex television games in order to broadcast match-ups with playoff implications.

2010 WPS Season Schedule

Subject to change | Home team listed first | All kick-off times listed in EST

Week 1

Saturday, April 10

Washington Freedom vs Boston Breakers        7pm

Sunday, April 11

Saint Louis Athletica vs FC Gold Pride            4pm

Philadelphia Independence vs Atlanta Beat        6pm

Sky Blue FC vs Chicago Red Stars            6pm (FSC)

Week 2

Saturday, April 17

Chicago Red Stars vs Saint Louis Athletica        8pm

FC Gold Pride vs Sky Blue FC                10pm

Sunday, April 18

Washington Freedom vs Atlanta Beat            4pm

Boston Breakers vs Philadelphia Independence        6pm (FSC)

Week 3

Saturday, April 24

FC Gold Pride vs Atlanta Beat                10pm

Sunday, April 25

Philadelphia Independence vs Washington Freedom    6pm

Saint Louis Athletica vs Boston Breakers        6pm (FSC)

Chicago Red Stars vs Sky Blue FC            6pm

Week 4

Saturday, May 1

Boston Breakers vs Chicago Red Stars            6pm

Sky Blue FC vs FC Gold Pride                6pm (FSC)

Philadelphia Independence vs Atlanta Beat        6pm

Washington Freedom vs Saint Louis Athletica        TBD

Week 5

Saturday, May 8

Washington Freedom vs Boston Breakers        7pm

Saint Louis Athletica vs Philadelphia Independence    8:10pm

FC Gold Pride vs Chicago Red Stars            10pm

Sunday, May 9

Atlanta Beat vs Sky Blue FC                7pm (FSC)

Week 6

Friday, May 14

Boston Breakers vs FC Gold Pride            7:30pm

Saturday, May 15

Chicago Red Stars vs Philadelphia Independence        7pm

Sunday, May 16

Saint Louis Athletica vs Sky Blue FC            4pm

Atlanta Beat vs Washington Freedom            6pm (FSC)

Week 7

Saturday, May 29

Atlanta Beat vs Saint Louis Athletica            7pm

Sky Blue FC vs Boston Breakers            7pm

Chicago Red Stars vs FC Gold Pride            8pm

Sunday, May 30

Washington Freedom vs Philadelphia Independence    6pm (FSC)

Week 8

Saturday, June 5

Boston Breakers vs Saint Louis Athletica        6pm

FC Gold Pride vs Washington Freedom            10pm

Sunday, June 6

Philadelphia Independence vs Sky Blue FC        6pm

Chicago Red Stars vs Atlanta Beat            6pm (FSC)

Week 9

Wednesday, June 9

Saint Louis Athletica vs FC Gold Pride            8:10pm

Saturday, June 12

Saint Louis Athletica vs Atlanta Beat            5:45pm

Washington Freedom vs Chicago Red Stars        7pm

Sunday, June 13

Boston Breakers vs Sky Blue FC            4pm

Philadelphia Independence vs FC Gold Pride        6pm (FSC)

Week 10

Saturday, June 19

Sky Blue FC vs Philadelphia Independence        7pm

Atlanta Beat vs Chicago Red Stars            7pm

FC Gold Pride vs Boston Breakers            10pm

Sunday, June 20

Saint Louis Athletica vs Washington Freedom        6pm (FSC)

Week 11

Wednesday, June 23

Atlanta Beat vs Philadelphia Independence        7:30pm

Friday, June 25

Boston Breakers vs Chicago Red Stars            7:30pm

Saturday, June 26

Philadelphia Independence vs Washington Freedom    6pm

Sunday, June 27

FC Gold Pride vs Saint Louis Athletica            6pm (FSC)

WPS All-Star Game presented by U.S. Coast Guard

Wednesday, June 30                    TBD (FSC)

Week 12

Saturday, July 3

Atlanta Beat vs FC Gold Pride                7pm

Sunday, July 4

Philadelphia Independence vs Boston Breakers        4pm

Washington Freedom vs Sky Blue FC            6pm

Week 13

Wednesday, July 7

Sky Blue FC vs Saint Louis Athletica            7pm

Chicago Red Stars vs Washington Freedom        8:30pm

Saturday, July 10

Chicago Red Stars vs Philadelphia Independence        7pm

Washington Freedom vs Saint Louis Athletica        7pm

Sunday, July 11

Boston Breakers vs Atlanta Beat                4pm

FC Gold Pride vs Sky Blue FC                6pm (FSC)

Week 14

Saturday, July 17

FC Gold Pride vs Philadelphia Independence        10pm

Sunday, July 18

Boston Breakers vs Washington Freedom        5pm (FSC)

Sky Blue FC vs Atlanta Beat                7pm

Saint Louis Athletica vs Chicago Red Stars        8:10pm

Week 15

Wednesday, July 21

Boston Breakers vs FC Gold Pride            7pm

Atlanta Beat vs Chicago Red Stars            7:30pm

Saturday, July 24

Philadelphia Independence vs Sky Blue FC        6pm

Washington Freedom vs FC Gold Pride            7pm

Saint Louis Athletica vs Atlanta Beat            8:10pm

Sunday, July 25

Chicago Red Stars vs Boston Breakers            4pm

Week 16

Wednesday, July 28

Sky Blue FC vs Saint Louis Athletica            7pm

Saturday, July 31

Boston Breakers vs Philadelphia Independence        6pm

Sunday, Aug. 1

Atlanta Beat vs Washington Freedom            5pm (FSC)

Sky Blue FC vs Chicago Red Stars            7pm

Week 17

Wednesday, Aug. 4

Washington Freedom vs Philadelphia Independence    7:30pm

Saturday, Aug. 7

Atlanta Beat vs Boston Breakers                7pm

FC Gold Pride vs Chicago Red Stars            10pm

Sunday, Aug. 8

Philadelphia Independence vs Saint Louis Athletica    7:30pm (FSC)

Week 18

Wednesday, Aug. 11

Sky Blue FC vs Washington Freedom            7pm

Saint Louis Athletica vs Boston Breakers        8:10pm

Chicago Red Stars vs Atlanta Beat            8:30pm

Saturday, Aug. 14

Atlanta Beat vs Saint Louis Athletica            7pm

FC Gold Pride vs Washington Freedom            10pm

Sunday, Aug. 15

Philadelphia Independence vs Chicago Red Stars        6pm

Boston Breakers vs Sky Blue FC            6pm (FSC)

Week 19

Saturday, Aug. 21

Boston Breakers vs Atlanta Beat                TBD

Sunday, Aug. 22

Sky Blue FC vs Philadelphia Independence        4pm

Saint Louis Athletica vs Washington Freedom        4pm

Chicago Red Stars vs FC Gold Pride            6pm (FSC)

Week 20

Saturday, Aug. 28

Atlanta Beat vs FC Gold Pride                7pm

Washington Freedom vs Sky Blue FC            7pm

Saint Louis Athletica vs Chicago Red Stars        8:10pm

Sunday, Aug. 29

Philadelphia Independence vs Boston Breakers        6pm (FSC)

Week 21

Wednesday, Sept. 1

Sky Blue FC vs FC Gold Pride                7pm

Sunday, Sept. 5 (FSC Flex TV Date)

Atlanta Beat vs Sky Blue FC                TBD

FC Gold Pride vs Boston Breakers            TBD

Chicago Red Stars vs Washington Freedom        TBD

Philadelphia Independence vs Saint Louis Athletica    6pm

Week 22

Saturday, Sept. 11

FC Gold Pride vs Philadelphia Independence        TBD

Chicago Red Stars vs Saint Louis Athletica        7pm

Sky Blue FC vs Boston Breakers            7pm

Sunday, Sept. 12 (FSC Flex TV Date)

Washington Freedom vs Atlanta Beat            TBD