New San Francisco NWSL team will be called Bay FC

The new National Women's Soccer League team in the San Francisco Bay Area will be called Bay Football Club, or Bay FC for short.

The team's name, logo and colours — navy, poppy red and fog gray — were unveiled Thursday. Bay FC is set to join the NWSL as the league's 14th team in 2024.

The team expects to announce where it will train temporarily in the coming months, with plans to build a permanent practice facility in the future.

"One of the things that we contemplated throughout this whole process was we wanted to be for the whole big area — we didn't want to be just for the North Bay, we didn't want to be just for the East Bay or the South Bay," said Aly Wagner, co-chair of Bay FC. "There are incredible, incredible places in the Bay Area that make this one of the most special places in the world."

It’s official. The 14th expansion club in the <a href="https://twitter.com/NWSL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nwsl</a> will be known as Bay Football Club! ⚽️