The 2026 NWSL regular season is barreling full speed ahead into the final stretch of match weeks. With the season flying by and playoff spots officially being clinched, it's time to queue up Attacking Third's team of the week honors. Back for a second season, everyone's favorite piece of content engagement is here.
After weekly matches across the 2026 NWSL season, Attacking Third analysts will select players, a head coach, and an honorary captain based on weekend performances. Here you can find a mix of stats and data, analysis from our pundits, and highlights you may have missed over the weekend. If you're keeping track of who earned past honors, check out our previous team of the week.
Selecting players at this stage of the year is like apple picking at the orchard -- just too many options, and you can't take them all home. Narrowing down a team of the week to just eleven players isn't easy, but we don't stop trying. The playoffs might be a long shot for Houston Dash now, but that's not stopping goalkeeper Jane Campbell from coming up with big moments.
She kept a narrow scoreline for a Houston Dash win. Up and over the bar for Campbell1-1 pic.twitter.com/MvAAAYhyAL There might not be a more important player to their club than Janine Sonis for Denver Summit. Not only does the outside back lead the club in goals, but she's essentially generating attacks in general.
She delivered the game-winning assist against Seattle Reign and is keeping Denver Summit in the playoff conversation. Tierna Davidson keeps adding bullet points to her defender of the year resume. She's been a constant, reliable presence on the backline for Gotham FC, and her performance against North Carolina was no different.
She led the team in clearances (five) and shot blocks (three). roll the tape on Tierna's Defense from last night's match against NC Courage 🎥🙅♀️ pic.twitter.com/dXCGhg6owR While San Diego sorted out their rotating goalkeepers, they often relied on defender Kennedy Wesley for leadership and on-pitch organization. Now she's back on the weekly honors for scoring stoppage-time goals too. Kenza Dali whipped in a free kick and it glanced off Kennedy Wesley's head for San Diego's second ✌️ pic.twitter.com/fDKO1dcYcf Gotham FC are just in better shape when Jess Carter is there as an extra layer of defense.
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