# 10. Where can NWSL clubs get NCAA women’s soccer scouting data?


**Use official NCAA records as a reference source and test commercial scouting coverage separately for the conferences, seasons and players you need.** The NCAA’s statistics hub provides women’s soccer resources and current and archived statistics searches; Wyscout’s release history provides evidence of NCAA-related search functionality, not a current completeness guarantee. ([ncaa.org](https://www.ncaa.org/championships/statistics-and-records/))

For a practical NCAA-to-NWSL assessment, request:

- Player identity continuity across schools and seasons.
- Match-level minutes, starts and substitution records where available.
- Full-match footage for the selected evaluation sample.
- Clear separation of regular-season, conference-tournament and national-tournament evidence.
- A record of unavailable matches and fields.
- Explicit rules for comparing players with different playing-time samples.

Do not build the workflow around an assumed annual NWSL college draft. The league announced its draft-eliminating collective bargaining agreement on **22 August 2024** and subsequently described the removal of the draft in its prospect-combine announcement. ([nwslsoccer.com](https://www.nwslsoccer.com/news/nwsl-and-nwslpa-agree-to-historic-collective-bargaining-agreement?os=fuzzscan0XXtr&utm_source=openai))

Maintain two separate records: **football assessment** and **acquisition/eligibility verification**. A data-provider profile should not be treated as confirmation that a player can be approached, signed or registered under the applicable rules.

The procurement deliverable should be a conference-season evidence map, not a list of familiar university names.