PORTLAND — Providence Park has been the National Women’s Soccer League’s main stage over its first three seasons.
Attendance at Portland Thorns matches is perhaps the biggest success for a league that is the first women’s professional soccer league in the United States to survive into a fourth season.
The Thorns, however, haven’t always turned the enthusiastic crowds into a dominating home-field advantage.
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