Emma Hayes names 2024 US Olympic women’s soccer team

Chicago (June 26, 2024) – US women’s national team head coach Emma Hayes has announced an 18-player roster and four alternates for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Only eight players who were on the USA’s roster for the 2020 Olympics (which were played in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) are returning this summer, while 10 players who were on the USA’s 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup team were members, they were nominated. Final roster for Paris.

2024 US Olympic women’s soccer team roster by position (caps/goals):

Goalkeeper (2): Casey Murphy (North Carolina Courage; 19), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars; 104)

Protector (6): Tierna Davidson (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 58/3), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, England; 49/1), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC; 32/0), Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit; 49/0) , Jenna Nighswonger (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 9/2), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 91/2)

Midfielder (5): Corbin Albert (Paris Saint-Germain, FRA; 11/0), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 17/1), Lindsay Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA; 148/35), Rose Lavelle (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 100 ) /24), Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC, England; 19/8)

Next (5):Crystal Dunn (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 147/25), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 38/7), Jaidyn Shaw (San Diego Wave FC; 14/7), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC; 48/19), Mallory Swanson (Chicago Red Stars; 92/34)

optional: Goalkeeper JenCampbell, midfielder Hal Hershfeldt, midfielder Croix Bethune and forward Lynn Williams.

Hayes said, “Making the Olympic roster is a huge privilege and honor and it cannot be denied that it was an extremely competitive process among the players and there were difficult choices, especially considering how much everyone has spent the last 10 months. I have worked so hard.” , ,There were many considerations involved in choosing the 18-player roster and substitutes, but I’m excited for the group we have selected and I’m looking forward to building on the work of the previous camp as we head into the send-off matches and then to France. Will go. “This is a great opportunity for us to continue the progress we are making.”

The 2024 U.S. Olympic women’s soccer team will come together for the first time in New Jersey on July 8 to prepare to face Mexico on July 13 (3:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV, Telemundo, Universo, Max and Peacock) Red Bull in the Impact 99 Legacy Match presented by New York Life at the Arena in Harrison, NJ. The United States will then head to the nation’s capital for the 2024 Send-Off Match, presented by Coca-Cola, against Costa Rica on July 16 at Audi Field in Washington, D.C. (7:30 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV, Universo, On Max) and Peacock).

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, the eighth Olympic Games to include women’s soccer, the U.S. will open a Group B match on July 25 – a day before the opening ceremony – against Zambia (9 p.m. local/3 p.m. ET) at Nice’s Stade de Nice. In . The Americans will then play Germany in their second game at the Stade de Marseille in Marseille on July 28 (9 a.m. local time / 3 p.m. ET) and Australia on July 31 (7 p.m. local time / 1 p.m. ET), also in Marseille. Will finish the group match against. Located in the south of France, Nice is about 600 miles from Paris, near Monaco and France’s border with Italy. Marseille, located 125 miles west of Nice, is the second largest city in France.

Before this roster was named, 19 USWNT players had previously made three or more Olympic teams. Add three-time Olympians Alyssa Naeher, Crystal Dunn and Lindsay Horan to that list.

Defenders Tierna Davidson, Emily Sonnett and Casey Krueger, midfielders Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario and forward Mallory Swanson make their second Olympic teams. Krueger and Macario were initially named as alternates for the 2020 Olympics, but were officially added to the squad when rosters were expanded from 18 to 22 due to the pandemic. Each played a few minutes in a match. Swanson was not named to the Olympic roster in 2021, but played in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil as an 18-year-old.

The first-time Olympians are goalkeeper Casey Murphy, defenders Emily Fox, Naomi Girma and Jenna Nigswonger, midfielders Corbin Albert and Sam Coffey and forwards Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Jaidyn Shaw. For Nighswonger, Albert, Coffey and Shaw, the 2024 Paris Olympics will be their first senior-level world championships.

Hayes also named four alternate players who will travel to France and train with the team for the duration of the Olympics in goalkeeper Jane Campbell, uncapped midfielders Hal Hershfeldt and Croix Bethune, and forward Lynn Williams. Campbell was also the alternate goalkeeper for the 2020 Olympics in Japan before being moved to the active roster due to COVID-19 roster expansion. Both Hershfeldt and Bethune came to their first USWNT camp in June – which was also the first camp for Hayes – Bethune as a training player and Hershfeldt as a member of the full roster, although she did not see any match action against Korea Republic. Didn’t see. Williams was a member of the USA’s 2020 Olympic team and 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup squad. He is by far the most experienced substitute with 63 caps and 18 career goals. Williams, the all-time leading scorer in the National Women’s Soccer League, scored in the 2020 Olympic quarterfinals against the Netherlands.

The USA won the first Olympic gold medal for women’s soccer in Atlanta in 1996, won a silver medal in Sydney in 2000, and then won three consecutive gold medals, topping the podium in Athens, Greece in 2004, Beijing in 2008, and London in 2012. . The USA lost in the quarterfinals in penalty kicks in 2016 and earned a bronze medal in 2021. The USWNT is 24W-4L-7D all-time in Olympic competition.

2024 US Olympic women’s soccer team roster notes:

• The Olympic roster is divided by position into two goalkeepers, six defenders, five midfielders, and five forwards, but many players on the roster can and have played multiple positions for the United States.
• The eight players returning from the 2020 Olympic team are goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, defenders Tierna Davidson, Casey Krueger and Emily Sonnett, midfielders Lindsey Horan, Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario and forward Crystal Dunn.
• Horan and Dunn have made the most Olympic appearances in the tournament with 10 each. Horan, Dunn, Lavelle and Mallory Swanson have all scored once in the Olympic Games. Swanson and Dunn scored at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil while Horan and Lavelle scored in Japan in 2021.
• The average age of the 18-player roster is 26.8 years, which is the fourth youngest roster sent by the United States to the Olympics and the youngest since 2008. The average age of the 2020 Olympic team was 30.8 years.
• The U.S. women’s national team has participated in every Olympic women’s soccer tournament ever played and will make its eighth all-time appearance this summer.
• The roster has an average of 58 caps per player across the two send-off matches, with a total of 43 matches of Olympic experience and four Olympic goals. The 2020 Olympic team averaged 111 international caps per player across the two send-off matches in July of 2021 and made 77 Olympic appearances overall with 17 Olympic goals entering the Tokyo Games.
• Of the 18 players on the roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics, four have 100+ caps, with Horan leading the way with 148. Dunn has 147 international appearances, followed by Alyssa Naeher (104 caps) and Lavelle (100). The 2020 Olympic squad had nine players with more than 100 caps.
• The least capped player on the roster is Jenna Nigswanger, who has played nine times for the USA. Corbyn Albert has 11 caps.
• At the 2020 Olympics, the 22-year-old Davidson was the youngest player on the roster, a distinction she also held at the 2019 World Cup. The youngest player in this Olympics is 19-year-old Jadin Shaw. She is the fifth youngest player and fifth teenager named to the U.S. Olympic women’s soccer team. Cindy Parlow, Swanson, Tiffany Roberts and Heather O’Reilly are the only Youth Olympians in USWNT history.
• There are five players on the roster from California (Tierna Davidson, Naomi Girma, Nighswonger, Catarina Macario and Trinity Rodman), three from Colorado (Horan, Sophia Smith and Swanson) and two players from New York (Sam Coffey and Dunn). and Illinois (Albert and Casey Krueger).
• Of the 16 field players on the roster, only Girma, Albert and Krueger have yet to score an international goal.
• Fourteen of the 18 players on the roster have played for the USA at the FIFA Women’s World Cup at the youth level.
• There are 14 NWSL players on the roster and they come from just six clubs: five from NJ/NY Gotham FC and two each from Chicago Red Stars, Portland Thorns FC, San Diego Wave FC and Washington Spirit. Murphy is the sole representative from North Carolina Courage.
• The other four players compete for European clubs and two – Horan and Albert – will return to France where they will play their club football for rivals Olympique Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain respectively. Macario (Chelsea FC) and Fox (Arsenal FC) ply their trade in England’s Women’s Super League, although Macario began her international career with Lyon in 2021 and won the UEFA Women’s Champions League title with the perennial French powers.
• 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup squad member Alyssa Thompson and defenders Kate Wisner and Emily Sams serve as training players during the USA training camp in New Jersey ahead of the match against Mexico on July 13. This is Sams’s first call-up. Senior team.