CHICAGO (July 30, 2024) – The U.S. Women’s National Team will face 2022 European Champions and 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup finalists England on Saturday, Nov. 30 at the iconic Wembley Stadium in London in the team’s penultimate match of 2024. The match will kick off at 12:20 p.m. ET / 5:20 p.m. London Time and will be broadcast in the USA on TNT, Universo, truTV, Max and Peacock.
The USWNT will play another match in Europe following the game against the Lionesses with the opponent and venue to be confirmed soon.
This match will mark the second-ever meeting between the United States and England Women’s National Teams at London’s green cathedral of soccer, but it will be the third trip for the U.S. Women to one of the most famous soccer venues in the world. The USA and England squared off in a friendly match in October of 2022, a 2-1 loss in which Sophia Smith scored and Trinity Rodman had a goal controversially disallowed.
This USWNT’s other visit to Wembley Stadium was the gold medal match at the 2012 Olympic Games, a 2-1 victory for the USA over Japan as the Americans captured their fourth Olympic gold.
The match will also be the first for London-born USWNT head coach Emma Hayes in her native country since taking the helm of the USWNT earlier this year.
This USA-England match was confirmed after England qualified for the UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 with a 0-0 draw with Sweden on July 16, finishing second in Group A3 behind France and thus avoiding the playoffs.
England won the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 in historic fashion at Wembley Stadium on July 31, 2022, defeating Germany, 2-1, in overtime on a goal from forward Chloe Kelly in front of a record-setting crowd of 87,192 fans. England, currently ranked third in the world, advanced to the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final in Australia and fell 1-0 to Spain.
The England women played Germany at Wembley in 2014 and drew 45,619 fans, but as the women’s game has continued to grow in popularity in England and around the world, the five most recent matches for the Lionesses at Wembley have all featured massive crowds; 77,768 vs. Germany in a friendly in 2019, 87,192 for the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 Final, 76,893 for the match against USA in October of 2022, 83,132 vs. Brazil in the 2023 Women’s Finalissima and 71,632 vs. the Netherlands in an UEFA Nations League group stage game in December of 2023.
The crowd at the European Final, which was the largest to watch a match in the history of the European Championships, men or women, also set a record for the most spectators to watch a women’s game in England, surpassing the previous crowd of 80,203 for the USWNT’s gold medal victory at the 2012 Olympics. That 2012 game marked the second-largest crowd ever to watch the USWNT play anywhere in the world, surpassed only by the 90,185 who attended the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final.
TICKETS
Tickets will go on sale to My England Football members on Monday, September 2 until Thursday, September 5, with general sale beginning on Friday September 6. Tickets can be purchased from the following link.
Additional Notes:
- The most recent meeting between the USWNT and England before the Oct. 2022 clash at Wembley was the epic semifinal at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, a 2-1 U.S. victory in Lyon, France on goals from Christen Press and Alex Morgan, sandwiched around a score from England star forward Ellen White.
- The USA and England have met 19 times but just three times in England. Two of those games were played in 2011, a 2-1 England victory at Leyton Orient in London, and in 2015, a 1-0 U.S. win at MK Dons in Milton Keynes, outside of London. The capacity of both venues combined would not fill Wembley Stadium even halfway.
- This will be the second meeting between the USA and England with former University of North Carolina player Sarina Wiegman, a two-time European champion head coach (2017 with the Netherlands and 2022 with England), at the helm of the Lionesses. Wiegman coached against the USA twice while head coach of the Netherlands, those meetings coming in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup final and the 2020 Olympic quarterfinal.
- Current U.S. starting right back Emily Fox plays in England for Arsenal FC. U.S. forward Cat Macario, who unfortunately was ruled out of the Olympics with an injury, also plays in London, at Chelsea FC.
