The Nashville Dream was a women's professional American football

American football

American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...

 team based in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. They were one of the founding teams of the National Women's Football Association

National Women's Football Association

The National Women's Football Association was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in...

. The team was active from 2000 to 2007 and last played at Glencliff High School.

History

The Nashville Dream was established by Catherine Masters in 2000 as one of the two founding teams of the National Women's Football Association

National Women's Football Association

The National Women's Football Association was a full-contact American football league for women headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. The league was founded by Catherine Masters in 2000, as the two benchmark teams, the Alabama Renegades and the Nashville Dream played each other six times in...

. The first season consisted of six exhibition games between the Nashville Dream and the Alabama Renegades

Alabama Renegades

The Alabama Renegades was a women's full-contact American football team based in Huntsville, Alabama.-Team history:The Renegades were one of the founding teams of the National Women's Football Association back in the fall of 2000. The Renegades and the Nashville Dream played a six game exhibition...

, with each team winning three games. Masters sold the team in 2001 to team quarterback

Quarterback

Quarterback is a position in American and Canadian football. Quarterbacks are members of the offensive team and line up directly behind the offensive line...

Christie Trost. After a disappointing 2001 season, the team qualified for the league playoffs every year until 2006, although they never made it to a championship game. Despite their successful record, the franchise was plagued by low attendance and financial insolvency. In December 2005, Head Coach Ben Eakin bought the team from Trost and attempted to resuscitate attendance levels by lowering ticket prices and increasing marketing efforts. The franchise folded two years later.

Season-by-season results

Year	Division	Reg. Season	Playoffs
2007	Southern - Central	2–6–0	Did not qualify
2006	South Central	0–8–0	Did not qualify
2005	Southern	8–0–0	0–1–0
2004	Southern	7–1–0	0–1–0
2003	Southern	5–3–0	0–1–0
2002	Southern	7–1–0	0–1–0
2001	Southern	2–7–0	Did not qualify