How Brittany Mahomes refuses to let “Patrick Mahomes’ wife” be her whole identity (Getty Images0
But this summer, with the FIFA World Cup running through Kansas City, she showed up at CPKC Stadium — not as someone’s wife, but as the co-owner of a franchise now worth $325 million. The Kansas City Current’s valuation jumped from $75 million in 2024 to $325 million in 2026, and the woman who made the earliest bet on that team did so before Patrick, before the fame, and before anyone thought women’s soccer in the Midwest was a serious investment. In her senior season, she scored 18 goals — then a program record — in as many games, including four hat trick performances. She signed with Icelandic club UMF Afturelding in 2017 and competed professionally overseas — a chapter most people skip right past when they write her story. In 2020, when Brittany Mahomes became a co-owner of the Current, it was a very different proposition — years before record crowds, soaring franchise valuations, and the sense that every major sports conversation had finally started to include women. CPKC Stadium opened in 2024 as the first purpose-built stadium exclusively made for professional women’s soccer, and it sold out every single home match of the 2024 NWSL season. The franchise now leads the NWSL in annual revenue at $36 million, a number that reflects what happens when you invest early in something you actually understand. Patrick joined the ownership group in 2022 — two years after Brittany.
But for someone who has spent years being introduced as somebody else’s partner, living that philosophy in public requires a kind of quiet determination most people underestimate.
When the World Cup arrived in Kansas City this summer, Brittany landed a role as Yahoo’s New Fans Correspondent for its “Everything But the Score” initiative. It’s not that confusing,” she said in the announcement video. She said at the time, “I just loved the sport, and I truly believed in it. “People are going to love you or hate you, but finding your values and what makes you ‘you’ to be the best version of yourself is what really matters,” she has said.
Most people know Brittany Mahomes from Arrowhead Stadium, cheering from the stands as her husband dismantles defenses. Brittany spent four years playing forward at the University of Texas at Tyler, where she became the first player in program history to record three hat tricks in a single season or career. That is not a footnote. That is a record. After college, she did not settle. The assignment fit her naturally. She explained soccer basics to newcomers with the kind of easy confidence you only get from decades inside the game. “In football, a field is a pitch. And a game is a match. A coach is a manager. Team is squad. Field goal is not a thing. Don’t talk about field goals. And look, American football isn’t even happening right now. There was no awkwardness, no reading from a script. She knew this world long before cameras followed her into it. We believed in these women; we believed in this city. That belief translated into something tangible. When he did, he became the first active NFL player to have a stake in an NWSL team. His name generated headlines. Her groundwork generated the stadium. It sounds simple.
