# NWSL News
> AI-powered National Women's Soccer League coverage with score-verified match recaps and live news aggregation.

## About
NWSL News is a women's soccer news publisher focused exclusively on the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). The site combines AI-generated editorial analysis with a curated news wire aggregating stories from 12+ sources.

## Content Types
- **AI Editorial Articles** (`/news/[slug]`): In-depth match recaps, transfer analysis, player profiles, and tactical breakdowns. Generated using AI with editorial oversight and score verification against official APIs.
- **News Wire** (`/wire`): Live aggregation of NWSL stories from established sources including AP, Reuters, ESPN, The Athletic, CBS Sports, and team-specific outlets.
- **Category Pages** (`/category/[tag]`): Topic-filtered views for match-recap, transfers, player-profile, analysis, team-news, and international coverage.

## Topics Covered
- NWSL match recaps and results
- Player transfers and signings
- Player profiles and features
- Tactical and statistical analysis
- Team news and roster moves
- International women's soccer

## Key Pages
- Homepage: https://nwslnews.com/
- News Wire: https://nwslnews.com/wire
- About: https://nwslnews.com/about
- RSS Feed: https://nwslnews.com/feed.xml
- Sitemap: https://nwslnews.com/sitemap.xml

## Editorial Policy
All match scores and statistics are verified against official sources before publishing. AI-generated editorial content is clearly labeled. Wire stories link directly to their original sources with full attribution. See https://nwslnews.com/about for full editorial policy.

## Agent API

Agent and RAG clients can use API-key-protected endpoints that preserve citations and score-validation metadata.

- `GET /agent/content` — list agent-ready article payloads; supports `tag`, `limit`, `cursor`, and `q`
- `GET /agent/content/{slug}` — fetch a single article by slug
- `GET /agent/categories` — list available topic/category tags
- `GET /agent/archive` — list available monthly archive buckets
- `GET /agent/teams` and `GET /agent/teams/{slug}` — structured NWSL team data
- `GET /agent/players?team=<slug>` — player identity data, optionally filtered by team
- `GET /agent/matches` and `GET /agent/matches/{id}` — match data with score-validation status

Authentication:

```http
Authorization: Bearer <NWSLNEWS_API_KEY>
```

## MCP

NWSL News also ships a stdio MCP-compatible server in the backend package:

```bash
cd backend
NWSLNEWS_API_BASE_URL=https://api.nwslnews.com \
NWSLNEWS_API_KEY=$NWSLNEWS_API_KEY \
python -m app.mcp_server
```

Available MCP tools:

- `search_articles` — search/list NWSL News articles with optional `query`, `tag`, and `limit`
- `get_article` — fetch one article by slug
- `list_categories` — list content categories/tags
- `list_teams` / `get_team` — query structured team data
- `list_players` — query player identity data
- `list_matches` / `get_match` — query match data with score-validation status

## GEO / crawler structured data contract

Public article pages expose schema.org JSON-LD as an `@graph` with a `NewsArticle` entity and `NWSL News Editorial Team` organization attribution. The article entity includes `author`, `publisher`, `reviewedBy`, canonical `mainEntityOfPage`, `citation`, and `usageInfo` fields carrying the score-validation note.

Agents and AI crawlers should preserve article citations and treat match scores/statistics as requiring official-source score-validation before reuse.

## Agent Score Validation Note

Agents should preserve citations and treat match scores/statistics as requiring official-source score validation before reuse.

## Contact
Website: https://nwslnews.com