What a year. We close the books on another successful season in Women's Professional Soccer season with FC Gold Pride hoisting the silverware. From far and wide, fans have been treated to great games, great goals and great skill from the best in the women's game.

It has been an honor to bring you these Power Rankings for the 2010 WPS season on the WPS Fan Corner, the View from Victoria Street and Bleacher Report. With all that said, here are the final WPS Power Rankings.
Albertin Montoya's FC Gold Pride, heading into the second of Women's Professional Soccer action, were a group of women on a mission: to exorcise the ghosts of 2009.

Not only did the Lionesses of the East Bay succeed in destroying the painful memories of finishing last place in the league that year, they end 2010 as the first club to win the WPS Double of being named WPS Regular Season Champions and WPS Champions.

It's a turnaround that will be sure to energize excitement for soccer in the East Bay, San Francisco, San Jose and beyond heading into the 2011 season.

The Pride didn't exactly begin their season on the right end of things, losing to St. Louis Athletica (who would wind themselves up later that year). But the Lionesses roared through the rest of April, May and June with seven victories, two defeats and one draw before cleaning out July with a perfect record of 5-0-0

The Pride did suffer a three-game scoreless draw streak before flipping the goal-scoring switch to on, ending the regular season with a 4-0-1 record and a blistering overall record of 16-3-5 (53 points).

With essentially two weeks to prepare for the postseason, the well-rested Pride took on the Philadelphia Independence and shut them out in emphatic fashion to the tune of 4-0.

Marta, who played her role in the victory with two assists and the final goal of the season, ends her campaign with the Michelle Akers Player of the Year Award and the Golden Boot, tallying a season-high 20 goals to her credit.

Her right-hand partner-in-crime, Christine Sinclair, finishes 2010 with a team-high nine assists and also scored a brace in the Championship Game.

Defensively, the Pride were led by WPS Rookie of the Year Ali Riley and U.S. Coast Guard Goalkeeper of the Year Nicole Barnhart.

Riley started all of the matches for the Pride except for one, dispossessing opposing attacks with sheer tenacity and exceptional skill. Barnhart ends her season with a 13-3-5 record, a 0.77 goals against average and 73 saves to her name.

FC Gold Pride will look to add another gold star to their crest when the Lionesses of the East Bay do it all over again in 2011.