The Portland Hearts of Pine, Maine’s USL men’s soccer club, will soon add a women’s team. The Hearts of Pine announced Thursday the club has secured the rights to a USL W League team that will kick off its inaugural season in May 2027. The men’s side has developed a cult following since its first season in 2025. “Having a women’s team has been part of the plan since Day One,” Gabe Hoffman-Johnson, Hearts of Pine’s founder and chief community officer, said in a release.