If you’re looking for the easiest way to spot Andrea Gordon on a Dallas Trinity FC matchday, all you need to do is just listen.

She’s almost always somewhere in the supporter section, helping lead chants, welcoming first-time fans, handing someone a drum, or catching up with people she now sees almost every weekend during the season. For her, that routine has become just as meaningful as the soccer itself.

She has been in the supporter section since Dallas Trinity FC’s inaugural season in 2024, but her connection to the game stretches back much further.

“I grew up being a soccer fan,” Gordon said. “My best friend played growing up, and I went to watch her play. I thought, ‘That looks fun.'”

She kicked off her journey with Garland Soccer Association before continuing through high school, college and beyond. Soccer remained a constant throughout her life, even though following a local professional women’s club wasn’t an option she had growing up.

That changed the moment Dallas Trinity FC entered the picture.

“When they did their big announcement at Klyde Warren Park, I saw several social posts and sent them to my friends,” she said. “We go to lots of soccer things together, and I was like, ‘We’ve got to be involved.’ So we signed up, got season tickets in the supporter section, and we’ve been there ever since.”

That excitement still comes through when Gordon talks about the club.

“Growing up, there wasn’t a club to watch,” she said. “Now that we do have one, I’m very excited to be able to invest in them. Showing up to games, supporting them, going to different events, my love for the sport is still there, and this gives me another way to be part of it.”

Investing is a word Gordon comes back to often.

Not because she’s talking about ticket sales or attendance figures, but because she believes supporters shape the club every time they choose to show up.

A mindset that also carries into her role on the leadership team for the Dallas chapter of the American Outlaws, the country’s largest U.S. Soccer supporters’ group. The experiences overlap more than people might expect.

“The biggest thing is inclusivity,” Gordon said. “Making sure everyone’s able to have access and participate in whatever way they’re able to support the team and the sport they love. And then it’s empowering one another and utilizing everyone’s talents and strengths in the supporter section.”

You can literally see that philosophy in action before a Dallas Trinity FC kickoff.

The tailgate fills with familiar faces and the conversations pick up where they left off the previous match. When new supporters wander over, often unsure what to expect from the section behind the goal, Gordon’s introduction is always about making people comfortable.

“We tell them, ‘We’re loud, we’re having fun,'” she said with a laugh. “‘Feel free to join in however you’re able. If you want to drum, you’re welcome to.’ We just want it to be a welcoming environment.”

That invitation has become part of this club’s supporter section’s identity.

Some fans sing every chant from the opening whistle. Others spend their first match watching and listening before finding their voice a few weeks later. Andrea enjoys seeing all of it unfold.

“My favorite part is seeing the kids get involved with the chants,” she said. “They want to come back and chant some more. They get comfortable using the megaphone or drumming. It’s really fun to see.”

She smiles talking about how many different people now fill the section.

“It’s very intergenerational,” she said. “We have kids in the section, and we’ve got adults of all ages. Everybody’s there together.”

The match itself is only a small part of her day but it actually starts at the tailgate and often ends hours after the final whistle celebrating the win, or analysing the draw. 

“We go to a bar afterward, get drinks, recap the game and hang out,” she said. “Rich and Jesse do the podcast, so we’ll meet up with them too. It’s kind of a full day’s worth of stuff, which is fun.”

Ask her for a favorite memory from the 2025/26 season, though, and one story immediately comes to mind.

“The last December game,” she said. “We started turning Christmas carols into Dallas Trinity chants.It was one of those spur-of-the-moment things. We had the idea and thought, ‘Okay, let’s run with it.'”

There wasn’t a committee meeting or a carefully planned rollout. It happened because a group of supporters decided to have fun together. And those moments have become the defining part of Dallas Trinity FC’s personality.

Gordon hopes even more people get the chance to experience them in the seasons ahead.

“I hope we have more folks investing in their local soccer club and community,” she said. “Someone comes to their first game, they meet another fan, and then the next time they come, they reconnect. You just continue building that community.”

That community extends well beyond Dallas and North Texas for Andrea. 

She and her friends have traveled to the last three FIFA Women’s World Cups, watching firsthand how supporters can transform a tournament.

“We were in Australia when they went to shootouts,” said Andrea Gordon. “The atmosphere was incredible. I became a Tillies fan because of everybody cheering for them.”

Those experiences reinforced something she already strongly believed.

“It feels small at times,” Gordon said of the women’s soccer community, “but it’s actually very large.”

A professional women’s soccer club like Dallas Trinity FC makes that community easier to find.

Growing up, Andrea mostly knew the U.S. Women’s National Team. The pathway into professional soccer felt distant, and opportunities to regularly watch elite women’s players simply didn’t exist.

“Accessibility and opportunity are big pieces,” she said. “As a kid, I really only knew the national team. Now women’s soccer has grown so much, and it’s cool to see people stay engaged.”

That growth is exactly what she hopes continues in Dallas.

Of course she wants wins.

“I mean, we win as much as we can,” she said with a grin.

But when she imagines what success looks like for the club, her answer goes beyond the final standings.

“Bringing the energy and the fun,” she said. “Creating a positive atmosphere for everybody, whether they’re in the stands or on the field.”

For a supporter who signed up before the club had played a single match, that’s still the goal.

Create an atmosphere people want to come back to. Everything else has a way of growing from there.

If you want to join Andrea in the supporters section this season that kicks-off on August 15, you can get your tickets here!