articleThe Brief Debinha, Temwa Chawinga scored for the Current in a 2-0 victory over the Reign that gave Kansas City the NWSL Shield as the league's best regular season team. The Kansas City Current clinched the National Women's Soccer League Shield as the league's top team in the regular season with a 2-0 victory over the Seattle Reign on Saturday night. It was the first Shield and first major NWSL trophy in the history of Current, who were founded in 2020. The team's only other trophy was the now-defunct NWSL x LigaMX Femenil Summer Cup, which Kansas City won in 2024. Current head coach Vlatko Andonovski, who previously won two NWSL Championships in 2014 and 2015, also lifted the NWSL Shield trophy for the first time in his career.