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The 20 founding players are:

Teams competed for the Founder's Cup, the WUSA's equivalent of the Super BowlAmerican football competitions The Super Bowl is the championship game of professional American football. It is the championship game of the National Football League, and is the most important American football competition. An AFL-NFL Championship Game wa trophy. Each roster primarily consisted of players from the United States, although up to four international players were allowed on each team's roster. Among the international players were stars of powerhouse teams such as ChinaThis article is on the geographic and cultural entity. For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). China ( Traditional Chinese: , Simplified Chinese: , Hanyu Pinyin: Zhongguo, Wade-Giles: Chung-kuo) is a country in continental East Asia with some oute's Sun WenSun Wen (born April 6, 1973) is a well-known female Chinese football (soccer) player. Chinese footballers 1973 births. and Bai Jie , GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east's Birgit PrinzBirgit Prinz (born October 25, 1977) is a German women's soccer player. Prinz was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and she trained to become a physiotherapist. Prinz has been playing soccer since she was a child and has been with 1. FFC Frankfurt (1st and Maren Meinert , NorwayThe Kingdom of Norway is a Nordic country west of Sweden on the Scandinavian Peninsula. It has a very elongated form and has an extensive coastline along the North Atlantic Ocean, where Norway's famous fjords are found. In addition to Sweden, it borders R's Hege RiiseHege Riise (Ree-see) is a soccer player born in 1969 in Lorenskog, Norway. Riise is captain of the Norwegian National Team, making her debut for her country in 1990. Drafted by the Caroline Courage in the Women's United Soccer Association 2000 Foreign Dra and Dagny Mellgren , BrazilThis article is about Brazil, the country. For other article subjects named Brazil see Brazil (disambiguation). The Federative Republic of Brazil Republica Federativa do Brasil in Portuguese) is the largest and most populous country in South America.'s Katia and Pretinha , and Canada's Charmaine Hooper and Christine Latham . The league also hosted singular talents from nations which were not at the forefront of women's soccer, such as Maribel Dominguez of Mexico, Julie Fleeting of Scotland, Cheryl Salisbury of Australia, and Kelly Smith of England.

The WUSA was set up such that each player held an equity stake in the league. There is much conjecture suggesting that the unique business form of the WUSA is what in large measure led to its suspension of operations on 15 September of 2003.

Attempts to revive the league are ongoing, and all rights to team nicknames, logos, and similar propeties have been preserved. Recently ( June 19, 2004), the Power and the Beat played to a 2-2 draw in Blaine, Minnesota; on the same day the Freedom and the Breakers played to a 3-3 draw. The downside to this is that the former game drew just over 2,000 fans, the latter just over 5,000. A doubleheader played in Carson, California on June 28, 2004 involving the other four teams drew over 7,000, and efforts to line up new sources of capital and operating funds continue as well. Whether the WUSA will be able to resume operations as an ongoing enterprise is at this point an open question. The success or lack of it by the U.S. National Women's Team in the 2004 Olympics may do much to determine the future level of interest in women's soccer in the U.S. and may have more to do with the eventual fate of the league than any other single factor. With the WUSA not being as active as it once was, the W-League has regained some players it formerly had lost to the WUSA.