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Gotham FC, the 2025 NWSL champion, has not received an invitation to visit the White House following its title, a club spokesperson told Front Office Sports.
The New Jersey–based women’s soccer club made history as the first NWSL team to visit the White House in September 2024, following its November 2023 championship, when Joe Biden was still the sitting president. But no return visit appears to be in the offing.
The Gotham spokesperson told FOS that the team “won’t speculate on hypotheticals,” when asked about whether they would visit the White House if invited.
This news comes after USA Today reported Tuesday that the Las Vegas Aces—who won the WNBA title in October—have not received a White House invitation, per a team spokesperson. (The Aces confirmed as much to FOS.)
The White House did not answer questions about the Aces and Gotham on Wednesday.
The Orlando Pride, who won the 2024 NWSL championship, did not visit the White House in the year following its victory. The 2024 WNBA championship–winning New York Liberty also did not visit the White House in 2025, but they met with the Obama family on a June 2025 trip to Washington, D.C. (Both teams won their titles in the final months of the Biden Administration.)
The PWHL’s Minnesota Frost, which won the 2024 and 2025 Walter Cups, also did not receive a White House invite, a team spokesperson told FOS. The Montreal Victoire, which won the 2026 Cup, visited Canadian prime minister Mark Carney on June 2.
During Donald Trump’s second term, he has hosted myriad championship-winning sports teams, including 2025 MLS Cup champion Inter Miami, as well as the NHL’s Panthers, MLB’s Dodgers, NFL’s Eagles, Indiana football, and the U.S. men’s hockey team. The only women’s team that he has hosted for a solo visit as president was the 2019 NCAA title–winning Baylor women’s basketball team.
Trump also hosted several NCAA championship–winning teams on April 21, including four women’s teams in Texas A&M volleyball, Georgia tennis, Youngstown State bowling, and Florida State soccer.
Trump invited the gold-medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team to his February State of the Union address in a phone call to the men’s hockey team—a call that drew backlash because he joked about facing impeachment if he didn’t invite the women’s team. The women declined the invite, citing scheduling concerns, but Trump said in the speech that the women’s team would eventually join him at the White House.
A USA Hockey spokesperson told FOS in February that “any opportunity to visit the White House as a team will be based on their schedules once their seasons conclude.” But with the PWHL and NCAA hockey seasons complete, a visit has not happened yet. USA Hockey has not responded to a follow-up on whether one is planned.
A White House official tells FOS that the White House is in regular communication with the U.S. women’s hockey team, and currently working on a date to arrange a visit that aligns with their schedule.
The Panthers visited in January after winning the Stanley Cup last summer. The other most recent major men’s pro sports title winners have yet to visit, though.
The 2025 World Series–winning Dodgers team accepted an invite in February, but they haven’t actually visited—including when they played the Nationals in D.C. this April—and the Thunder turned theirs down, citing a scheduling conflict. As of March, the Super Bowl–winning Seahawks have not received an invite, and the team hasn’t responded to an inquiry on whether that still holds.
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