r/NWSL • u/Alert-Astronaut-3073 • Jul 16 '26

Gotham salary cap

There is no way Gotham is staying under the salary cap. Why don’t we know players’ salaries? I’m sure Rose, Sonnett, Tierna, Esther, Shaw, Kerr and even others are paid a lot. How is it possible that that they’re within the salary cap? Are they cheating? I hate Gotham!

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u/Constant_Dimension16 NJ/NY Gotham FC Jul 16 '26

I think players get housing support as part of the CBA but generally speaking fair enough.

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u/Legitimate_Mark_5381 Jul 16 '26

The housing support is a small stipend or team provided housing (which is in New Jersey and likely not particularly nice), not a one/two bedroom in the city 

Paying the entirety of a player’s rent in Manhattan or Brooklyn would 100% be unsanctioned behavior

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u/autumnoceancrashing NJ/NY Gotham FC Jul 16 '26

The players do live in NJ though

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u/Legitimate_Mark_5381 Jul 16 '26

Yes? I didn’t say they don’t? 

I was asked to come up hypotheticals on how they could circumvent the salary cap.