7 days 3 games for uswnt

By Anonymous (not verified), October 22, 2025

USWNT OPENS THREE-GAME FALL SET AGAINST PORTUGAL

Watch the USA-Portugal on Thursday, Oct. 23 at Subaru Park in Chester, Pa., presented by AT&T at 7 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English on Peacock in Spanish and on the radio on Westwood One Sports and Fútbol de primera in Spanish.

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After a highly successful FIFA window this summer in which a young U.S. Women’s National Team defeated Ireland twice, both by 4-0 scorelines, and then dominated Canada, 3-0, in Washington, D.C., the USWNT returns to the field after a long break – 113 days – between matches. This time, the U.S. team will be a mixture of veterans and younger players with five European-based players who were given the summer window off by Emma Hayes returning to the fold.

In the last FIFA window, the USA impressively got goals from eight different players – their first WNT goal for four of them – with Alyssa Thomspon, Yazmeen Ryan and Sam Coffey scoring in multiple games. Avery Patterson, Izzy Rodriguez, Yazmeen Ryan and Claire Hutton each opened their international accounts. For this roster, there is just one player in her first senior USWNT camp – YNT veteran defender Kennedy Wesley – as Hayes begins the process of pairing down the pool to a core group which will attempt to qualify for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup at the 2026 CONCACAF W Championship.

24 DEBUTS IN 25 GAMES: U.S. Head Coach Emma Hayes gave five players their first caps in the last FIFA window as well – goalkeeper Claudia Dickey, defenders Jordyn Bugg, Lilly Reale and Izzy Rodriguez and midfielder Sam Meza. All but Rodriguez and Meza are back on this roster, which features just one first-time call-up, Kennedy Wesley. Rodriguez and Meza, who started on June 29 vs. Ireland, became the 23^rd and 24^th players to debut under Hayes in her 25 games at the helm, a remarkable ratio for the Olympic champion head coach. Hayes has given 28 players their first call-ups, but she also gave a first cap to a player who did not get a first call-up under her, as Lily Yohannes earned her first call-up under former interim head coach Twila Kilgore but did not see action until Hayes. The 24 players who have earned their first USWNT caps under Emma Hayes are: Sam Staab, Lily Yohannes, Croix Bethune, Yazmeen Ryan, Hal Hershfelt, Emily Sams, Emma Sears, Mandy McGlynn, Alyssa Malonson, Eva Gaetino, Ally Sentnor, Tara McKeown, Michelle Cooper, Gisele Thompson, Claire Hutton, Phallon Tullis-Joyce, Avery Patterson, Lo'eau LaBonta, Kerry Abello, Claudia Dickey, Lilly Reale, Jordyn Bugg, Sam Meza and Izzy Rodriguez. So far, 13 of these players have made their USWNT debuts in 2025. Eleven players debuted for the USWNT in 2024, which was the most in a calendar year since 2001, when 15 players – including eventual World Cup champions Abby Wambach and Lori Chalupny – earned their first caps. With Kennedy Wesley looking for her debut, and two more matches against Italy around Thanksgiving, that record for debuts in a year could fall.

RODMAN OUT, BUT MACARIO RETURNS: After being named on Oct. 16 to a USWNT roster for the first time since last April, Trinity Rodman was injured playing for the Washington Spirit in the Concacaf W Champions Cup just hours later. While the USA will have to wait for Rodman’s return, Catarina Macario, who has been in fine form for Chelsea FC in England, headlines the group of mostly young or inexperienced forwards. Macario has 24 caps and 11 goals. Midfielder Sam Meza, who was originally named to the roster, had to pull out due to a minor hamstring strain and she was replaced by KC Current’s Lo’eau LaBonta, who earns her second WNT call-up.

ON DECK: This FIFA window features three matches in seven days. The USA will face Portugal on Thursday, Oct. 23 at Subaru Park in Chester, Pa., presented by AT&T (7 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English on Peacock in Spanish and on the radio on Westwood One Sports and Fútbol de primera in Spanish) and on Sunday, Oct. 26 at Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Conn. (4 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English, Universo and Peacock in Spanish and on the radio on Westwood One Sports). The latter match will be presented by Volkswagen. The USA will then finish the three-game set with a match against New Zealand in Kansas City, Mo., on Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the team’s first-ever match at CPKC Stadium (8 p.m. ET / 7 p.m. CT, on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English on Universo and Peacock in Spanish and on the radio on Westwood One Sports and FDP Spanish radio).

U.S. WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION (CLUB; CAPS/GOALS) – October 2025 vs. Portugal, New Zealand

GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey(Seattle Reign FC; 2), Mandy McGlynn(Utah Royals; 4), Phallon Tullis-Joyce(Manchester United, ENG; 3)

DEFENDERS (8): Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign FC; 2/0), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 67/1), Lilly Reale (Gotham FC; 2/0), Tara McKeown (Washington Spirit; 8/0), Avery Patterson (Houston Dash; 6/1), Emily Sams (Orlando Pride; 5/0), Emily Sonnett (Gotham FC; 110/2), Kennedy Wesley (San Diego Wave; 0/0)

MIDFIELDERS (8): Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 38/4), Lindsey Heaps (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 167/38), Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current; 6/1), Lo’eau LaBonta (Kansas City Current; 2/0), Rose Lavelle (Gotham FC; 113/25), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 9/2), Jaedyn Shaw (Gotham FC; 26/8), Lily Yohannes (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 8/1)

FORWARDS (6): Michelle Cooper (Kansas City Current; 8/1), Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC, ENG; 24/11), Yazmeen Ryan (Houston Dash; 12/2), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville; 8/1), Ally Sentnor (Kansas City Current; 12/4), Alyssa Thompson (Chelsea FC, ENG; 22/3)

BACK FROM ACROSS THE POND: Five European-based players whom Hayes chose to not call up for the late June/early July FIFA window to give them adequate rest after a long European season, return to the fold this week: midfielder Lindsey Heaps, defender Emily Fox, forward Catarina Macario, midfielder Lily Yohannes and goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce. All five are currently playing in the UEFA Champions League for their respective clubs. This is the first call-up for winger Alyssa Thompson since her high-profile transfer to Chelsea FC in the English Women’s Super League. She has played seven matches for the Blues so far and earned her first UEFA Women’s Champions League goal and assist in a 4-0 win over Paris FC on Oct. 15. It was her first goal for the club.

NWSL PIPELINE: The roster features 19 NWSL Players, including first-time call up Kennedy Wesley, while Gotham FC leads the NWSL clubs in call-ups with four. The KC Current and Seattle Reign placed three players each on the roster.

THE EMMA FILE: USWNT head coach Emma Hayes has compiled a record of 21W-2L-2D through her first 25 matches at the helm of the USWNT and guided the USA to five consecutive shutouts before seeing that streak end against Germany in the group stage of the Olympics. It was the second-longest shutout streak to open the tenure of any full-time USWNT head coach, trailing only the nine consecutive shutouts that opened the Greg Ryan era. Ater the 3-0 opening game win over Zambia at the Olympics, Hayes became the first USWNT head coach to win their first major tournament match by a margin of three or more goals and joined Anson Dorrance as the only head coaches in USWNT history to win their first six matches at a major tournament. Dorrance won all six games with the USWNT at the 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Hayes joins three other USWNT head coaches of the last eight in USWNT history who won their first major competition (Anson Dorrance – 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Pia Sundhage – 2008 Olympics, Jill Ellis – 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup). The gold medal victory in Paris came in Hayes’ 10th match at the helm of the USWNT, the fewest matches before winning a World Cup or Olympics by any head coach in women’s soccer history. Hayes picked up her first world honor as head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Team when she won the Ballon d’Or as the 2024 Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year. France Football, the top soccer magazine in France and one of the most reputable in Europe, has been awarding the Ballon d’Or to men’s players since 1956 and to women’s players since 2018, but 2024 was the first year it has given out awards to coaches of men’s and women’s soccer. Hayes then followed that up by winning The Best FIFA Women’s Coach award. Hayes won that award in 2021 and finished second to England head coach Sarina Wiegman in 2023.

SERIES HISTORY -- USA vs. PORTUGAL: Thursday’s matchup will be the 12^th meeting all-time between the two teams. The United States holds a 10W-0L-1D record against Portugal. Seven of the 11 all-time meetings have been won by three or more goals, though two of the last five have been 1-0 victories, including the last encounter before the World Cup, which was a friendly in Houston in 2021.

This will be the first meeting since the final match of group play at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, a match that featured a gritty performance from Portugal in the 0-0 draw, the first draw ever between the teams. In that World Cup match, the USA outshot Portugal, 17-6, and 6-0 in shots on goal, but could not find the net.

The World Cup clash was the first meeting in major tournament between the USWNT and Portugal. The U.S. had won all 10 previous meetings, outscoring them, 39-0. The 11 meetings with Portugal without ever conceding are the most the USWNT has played against a single opponent that it has never conceded a goal against.

Four of the previous 11 meetings between the USA and Portugal took place at the Algarve Cup in Portugal, a tournament in which the U.S. no longer competes.

USWNT TEAM & ROSTER NOTES

Since the start of 2020, the USWNT has played 69 matches in the United States and 32 outside the country. The USA is 60W-4L-6D in domestic matches and has outscored the opposition 215-22 (+193) at home. Outside the United States, the USWNT is 20W-4L-8D with a 62-20 goal margin (+42).
Since the end of the 2015 World Cup, the USA has played 196 matches and has a record of 160W-13L-23D.
Thirty-four of the USA’s 50 goals in 2024 (68%) were scored or assisted by a player under the age of 25. The USA is off to a good start in that category in 2025. Of the team’s combined 26 goals and 20 assists this year, 45% involved an under-25 player.
Goal scorers under 25 include 21-year-old Ally Sentnor (4), 20-year-old Alyssa Thompson (2), 22-year-olds Michelle Cooper and Trinity Rodman, and 19-year-old Claire Hutton. Players under 25 that have assists in 2025 include Tompson and Sentnor with two apiece, Hutton and Cooper each with one, 19-year-olds Emma Sears (1) and Olivia Moultrie (1), 20-year-old Jaedyn Shaw, 21-year-old Lilly Reale, and 23-year-old Avery Patterson. Lindsey Heaps and Rose Lavelle are the leading scorers on this roster with 38 and 25 career goals, respectively. Catarina Macario (11) and Jadeyn Shaw (8) have the next most international goals. No one else has more than four, which is the career total for Sam Coffey and Ally Sentnor.
Lindsey Heaps and Rose Lavelle are the leading scorers on this roster with 38 and 25 career goals, respectively. Catarina Macario (11) and Jadeyn Shaw (8) have the next most international goals. No one else has more than four, which is the career total for Sam Coffey and Ally Sentnor.
There are eight players on the roster who have senior world championship experience, led by Heaps, Lavelle and Sonnett, but three of those eight, Jaedyn Shaw, Alyssa Thompson and Cat Macario barely played or did not play on their respective Olympic Teams. Sam Coffey and Emily Fox are the others, both of whom played major roles in the 2024 Olympic gold medal run.
There are three teenagers in training camp in Jordyn Bugg and Claire Hutton who are both 19, and Lily Yohannes who at 18 years and three months old is the youngest player on the roster. Yohannes is the first player born in 2007 to be called up to the USWNT. Olivia Moultrie turned 20 on Sept. 17. The oldest player is Emily Sonnett, who turns 32 in late November.

On June 1, 2024, Macario made her first start for the USWNT in 781 days, having started in her April 12, 2022 appearance. Macario played 60 minutes in the win over Korea Republic and assisted Tierna Davidson’s goal in the first half, which marked her third career assist and first in 829 days, last tallying an assist (along with two goals) against Iceland in the SheBelieves Cup finale on February 23, 2022.
Alyssa Thompson, who scored five goals – with one assist – in a five-game span at the end of the 2024 NWSL season, had six goals and two assists for Angel City FC before her high-profile transfer to Chelsea FC. She was the second youngest player in league history to reach 20 goal contributions, after USWNT teammate Olivia Moultrie. Thompson is off to a fine start in England, playing in seven matches so far and she earned her first goal and assist on Oct. 15 in the UEFA Women’s Champion’s League.
For the USA, Thompson scored a world class goal on June 26 against Ireland, just the second of her international career, dribbling about 50 yards before smashing her shot home in the 4-0 win. She scored in back-to-back games for the first time her career when she again found the fourth and final goal against Ireland on June 29, giving her three for her young career.
Ally Sentnor, one of the most successful U.S. Youth National Team players in recent years, earns her sixth call-up to the senior team. Sentnor had a night to remember on June 3 vs. Jamaica, scoring twice in what was her fourth career start. She had an excellent 2025 SheBelieves Cup, scoring twice – most of any player – on two terrific finishes, giving her two goals in her first five caps.
She now has four goals and two assists in 12 caps after playing the final 34 minutes against China PR on May 31, the first 66 against Jamaica on June 3, 85 minutes on June 26 vs. Ireland, a match in which she assisted on Rose Lavelle’s goal (her second career assist), the final 28 minutes against Ireland on June 29 and the final 23 minutes against Canada on July 2.
Emma Sears got her first call-up to a U.S. National Team at any level for the USA’s October 2024 friendlies. She leads Racing Louisville with 10 goals, most of any American in the NWSL, and to the brink of its first-ever playoff berth.

Lindsey Heaps Heaps was given the last FIFA window off to rest after a long European season. A consistent presence in the midfield and regular captain for the USWNT, Heaps made her USWNT debut in 2013 and has tallied at least one goal for the USA every year since 2015, the longest such streak by any player currently on the team. She is the seventh player in USWNT history to score in at least 10 consecutive calendar years, along with Mia Hamm (15 from 1990—2004), Abby Wambach (14 from 2002—15), Carli Lloyd (12 from 2010—21), Tiffeny Milbrett (12 from 1992—2003), Shannon Boxx (11 from 2003—13) and Alex Morgan (10 from 2010-19).
Rose Lavelle returned to the USWNT roster for the first time in 2025 during the last FIFA window and had a tremendous match on June 26 vs. Ireland, scoring a goal and earning an assist. The USWNT coaching staff always planned to rest her on June 29 vs. Ireland, but she got a planned cameo in her hometown of Cincinnati, playing the final five minutes, much to the delight of her hometown crowd which welcomed her to the field with a huge roar and loud applause. Against Canada on July 2, she had another excellent match and picked up an assist via a corner kick on Claire Hutton’s first senior international goal.
On Nov. 11, 2024, 17-year-old Lily Yohannes announced that she was committing her international future to the United States. At that time, the USA was her only option for international soccer, but had she received a passport from the Netherlands, where she has lived since the age of 10, she would have been able to represent the Dutch. This is her sixth senior team callup. She earned her first call-up for the 2024 SheBelieves Cup and became the youngest player to be called up for a full National Team camp since 16-year-old Sophia Smith was called up in April 2017 for the training camp prior to matches against Russia in Texas.

At age 32, Lo’eau LaBonta gets her second USWNT call-up. The Kansas City Current veteran, captain and midfield anchor became the oldest player to debut for the USWNT program in its 40-year history when she came on in the 70th minute vs. China PR on May 31.
The 2024 NWSL Defender of the Year for the Orlando Pride, Emily Sams earned her first USWNT call-up as a training player for the July 2024 friendlies against Mexico and Costa Rica after a standout season with the Pride and was added as an alternate to the Olympic roster following the injury to Catarina Macario.
Utah Royals goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn made her first start and earned her first cap on Oct. 30, 2024, vs. Argentina, becoming the ninth GK in USWNT history to keep a clean sheet in their debut. The three most recent GKs to achieve that feat were Aubrey Kingsbury in 2022, Casey Muphy in 2021 and Alyssa Naeher in 2014. Phallon Tullis-Joyce became the 10th goalkeeper to earn a shutout in her first cap and earned it, making six saves on April 5 vs. Brazil. Claudia Dickey joined that group in her first cap against Ireland June 26.

IN FOCUS: PORTUGAL

FIFA World Ranking: 23

UEFA Ranking: 14
World Cup Appearances: 2023

Best World Cup Finish: Group Play

Record vs. USA: 0W-1D-10L (GF: 0; GA: 39)
Head Coach: Francisco Neto (POR)

PORTUGAL WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION

Goalkeepers (3): 1-Inês Pereira* (Deportivo De La Coruna, ESP), 12-Patrícia Morais, (S.C. Braga), 22-Sierra Cota-Yarde (AFC Toronto, CAN)

Defenders (9): 2-Catarina Amado* (S.L. Benfica), 3-Lúcia Alves* (S.L. Benfica), 4-Alice Marques (Sevilla FC, ESP), 5-Bárbara Lopes, (S.C.U Torreense), 15-Carole Costa* (S.L. Benfica), 18-Carolina Correia (S.C.U Torreense), 19-Diana Gomes* (S.L. Benfica), 20-Beatriz Fonseca (Sporting CP), 24-Cancelinha Érica (Sporting CP)

Midfielders (7): 6-Andreia Jacinto* (Real Sociedad (ESP), 7-Francisca Nazareth* (FC Barcelona (ESP), 8-Maria Alagoa (S.C. Braga), 11-Tatiana Pinto* (Juventus FC, ITA), 13-Fátima Pinto* (Racing Club Strasbourg (FRA), 14-Dolores Silva* (Levante UD, ESP), 16-Andreia Faria (Al Nassr FC (SAU)

Forwards (5): 9-Stephanie Ribeiro (UNAM (MEX), 10-Jéssica Silva* (Al-Hilal, SAU), 17-Diana Silva* (S.L. Benfica), 21-Maísa Correia (Sporting CP), 23-Carolina Santiago (Sporting CP)

*Member of 2023 FIFA WWC Team.

PORTUGAL NOTES:

Portugal has 12 players on this roster that were on its 2023 World Cup Team, 10 of whom played against the USA in group play.
On this USA roster are just five players who played in that match: Emily Fox, Lindsey Heaps, Rose Lavelle, Emilly Sonnet (late sub) and Alyssa Thompson (late sub).
Portugal did not do well in the 2025 UEFA Women’s Nations League, finishing at the bottom of a strong four-team group featuring Spain, England and Belgium and was relegated from League A to League B. Portugal’s only win in the group was a 1-0 victory over Belgium.
Portugal fared a bit better at the 2025 UEFA Women’s Euros but still did not advance out of another difficult group (are there any other kind in Europe?) featuring Spain, Italy and Belgium. Portugal lost to eventual finalists Spain, 5-0, in the first game but then hung in there with Italy (1-1 draw) and Belgium (2-1 loss). Diana Gomes scored against Italy and Telma Encarnação tallied Portugal’s lone goal against Belgium.
Portugal has several players with U.S. ties. Forward Jessica Silva had brief stints with the Kansas City Current and Gotham FC in the NWSL. Midfielder Maria Alagoa, currently with S.C. Braga, played college soccer at both Florda State and USC, where she was a Second-Team All-Big 10 selection in 2024.
Silva is currently playing in Saudia Arabia with Al-Hilal, a sign of the growth of women’s soccer worldwide.
Francisco Neto has served as head coach of the Portuguese Women’s National Team since 2014 and helped Portugal qualifying for its first ever UEFA Women’s Championship in 2017, as well as the nation’s first ever victory in the competition. Portugal qualified for the Euros again in 2022 and 2025 but failed to advance out of the group each time.