Tampa Bay Extreme

The Tampa Bay Extreme were a USL W-League women's soccer club based out of Clearwater, Florida. The team began play in 1997 and folded after the 2002 season.{{cite news |last1=Litterer |first1=David A. |title=USA - United States Women's Interregional Soccer League (W-League) |url=https://www.rsssf.org/usadave/uswisl.html |accessdate=9 February 2019 |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |date=16 June 2011}} In 1998, they signed Michelle Akers.{{cite news |title=USISL: Michelle Akers Signs with W-League's Tampa Bay Extreme |url=https://www.socceramerica.com/publications/article/18302/usisl-michelle-akers-signs-with-w-leagues-tampa.html |accessdate=9 February 2019 |publisher=Soccer America |date=2 February 1998}} Based at the 2,000-seater sports field at Countryside High School, the team colors were white and red.{{cite web |title=USL W-League: Tampa Bay Extreme |url=http://www.soccertimes.com/directory/usisl/w-1/extreme.htm |publisher=SoccerTimes.com |accessdate=10 February 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908142144/http://www.soccertimes.com/directory/usisl/w-1/extreme.htm |archivedate=8 September 2015}}

Year-by-year

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Division

!League

!Reg. season

!Playoffs

!Avg. attendance

1997

|USL W-League

|4th, South

|Did not qualify

|186{{cite web|url=http://www.kenn.com/the_blog/?page_id=4700|title=Attendance Project: W-League|publisher=Kenn.com|first=Kenn|last=Tomasch|accessdate=1 September 2013}}

1998

|USL W-League

|4th, South

|Did not qualify

|424

1999

|USL W-League

|3rd, South

|Divisional round

|402

2000

|USL W-League