CHICAGO (Nov. 18, 2024) – U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes has named a 24-player roster to travel to Europe for matches against England on Nov. 30 at Wembley Stadium (12:20 p.m. ET / 5:20 p.m. local time on TNT, Max, Universo and Peacock) and against the Netherlands on Dec. 3 at ADO Den Haag Stadium (2:45 p.m. ET / 8:45 p.m. local time on TNT, truTV, Universo, Max and Peacock). England (2022) and the Netherlands (2017) are the two most recent champions of the UEFA Women’s Euros and reached the finals of the last two FIFA Women’s World Cups, with England falling to Spain in 2023 and the Netherlands losing to the USA in 2019.
“In terms of our schedule, this is the end of a wonderful year, but we’re still at the beginning of our process of building towards qualifying for the next World Cup,” said Hayes. “So, this trip will be about testing ourselves against two world class teams with opportunities to develop our roster. We will continue to build relationships on and off the field and I’m really excited to work with this group as we continue to set the stage for 2025.”
U.S. Women’s National Team Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals) - 2024 European Friendlies
GOALKEEPERS (3): Mandy Haught (Utah Royals FC; 1), Phallon Tullis-Joyce (Manchester United, ENG; 0), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars; 113)
DEFENDERS (9): Tierna Davidson (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 64/3), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 60/1), Eva Gaetino (Paris Saint-Germain, FRA; 1/0), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC; 42/2), Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit; 59/0), Alyssa Malonson (Bay FC; 1/0), Jenna Nighswonger (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 17/2), Emily Sams (Orlando Pride; 2/0), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 101/2)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Korbin Albert (Paris Saint-Germain, FRA; 20/1), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 26/1), Hal Hershfelt (Washington Spirit; 2/0), Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA; 159/36), Rose Lavelle (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 108/24), Lily Yohannes (Ajax, NED; 1/1)
FORWARDS (6): Yazmeen Ryan (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 2/0), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville FC; 2/1), Ally Sentnor (Utah Royals FC; 0/0), Jaedyn Shaw (San Diego Wave FC; 19/8), Alyssa Thompson (Angel City FC; 11/1), Lynn Williams (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 73/20)
Fifteen of the 22 members of the 2024 Olympic Team were named to this roster, but the USA will be without the entire “Triple Espresso” front line of Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Mallory Swanson, as all are dealing with nagging injuries that need rest after a long year representing club and country.
Hayes named two uncapped players in 28-year-old former Seattle Reign and current Manchester United goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce along with 20-year-old Utah Royals FC forward Ally Sentnor, who captained the U.S. team that took third place at the 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Colombia. Sentnor, a nominee for NWSL Rookie of the Year, scored three times at the U-20 World Cup where she won the Bronze Ball as the third best player in the tournament. She had three goals and four assists for Utah this past season while appearing in 21 matches, all of them starts, after being selected by the club as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2024 NWSL Draft.
Tullis-Joyce and Sentnor bring the number of players who have gotten a first senior USWNT call-up under Hayes to 11.
All seven players who received their first caps during the October FIFA window earned return engagements. Those players are midfielder Hal Hershfelt and defender Emily Sams, both of whom were alternates on the USA’s 22-player Olympic roster, Paris Saint-Germain center back Eva Gaetino, who makes her third USWNT roster, defender Alyssa Malonson and forwards Yazmeen Ryan and Emma Sears, all of whom enjoyed first USWNT call-ups for those October matches, and goalkeeper Mandy Haught, an injury replacement who started and earned the shutout against Argentina on Oct. 30. Sears had quite the debut on Oct. 27 against Iceland when she came into the match with 35 minutes remaining and picked up her first international assist and goal.
The roster is not without a veteran presence, led by team captain Lindsey Horan (159 caps), goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher (113), midfielder Rose Lavelle (109), defender Emily Sonnett (101) and forward Lynn Williams (73). Arsenal FC defender Emily Fox (60) will have a short commute across London to U.S. training camp. Defender Tierna Davidson (64) returns to the roster after missing the October matches due to injury and will be available to pair once again in the center defense with Naomi Girma (42), who led the USA’s field players in minutes played at the 2024 Olympics and scored the first two goals of her international career in the USA’s Oct. 30 win over Argentina.
On Nov. 16, Horan registered her first four-goal game for Olympique Lyon, tallying three goals in a 23-minute span in the first half against Saint-Etienne before adding one in the second, just before she was subbed out. The four scores give her 10 goals in eight games across UEFA Women’s Champions League and Première Ligue play this season. Horan has five goals and three assists for the USA in 2024.
The U.S. roster for these matches in Europe will feature 18 NWSL players and six players from European clubs, including 17-year-old Ajax midfielder Lily Yohannes, who last week announced that she would represent the USA at the international level. Yohannes, who was born in Virginia but has lived in the Netherlands since the age of 10, also had a debut to remember, scoring in her first, and thus far only, USWNT cap on June 4 against the Korea Republic in St. Paul, Minn. This is her first call-up since then.
Also benefiting from short flights to London will be Gaetino and her PSG teammate Korbin Albert, who had an important goal and assist in the Olympics, as well as Horan, who has helped Olympique Lyon to a great start during this 2024-2025 season.
These will be the final matches of year for the U.S. Women, who will reconvene in mid-January in Los Angeles for a training camp that will be held concurrently with a “Futures Camp” featuring up-and-coming USWNT prospects.
Additional Notes
- Three members of this roster – Casey Krueger and NWSL semifinal hero Hal Hershfelt of the Washington Spirit and defender Emily Sams of the Orlando Pride -- will play in the 2024 NWSL Championship Game on Nov. 23 in Kansas City, Mo., before traveling to London to join the U.S. team
- This 24-player roster averages 37 caps per player, with four players having 100+ caps and 10 players with two caps or fewer.
- Hayes will name 23 of the 24 players on the roster to suit up for each of the two matches.
- There will be only one teenager on this roster at Wembley – Lily Yohannes – as Jaedyn Shaw turns 20 on Nov. 20 and Alyssa Thompson celebrated her 20th birthday earlier in November.
- Fourteen players, more than half the roster, have 20 caps or fewer.
- There are only five players on this roster currently in their 30s: Alyssa Naeher, Casey Krueger, Lynn Williams, Lindsey Horan and Emily Sonnett.
- This is the first senior National Team call-up for 6-foot goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce, who has taken over starting duties for Manchester United after signing with the club in September of 2023. She trained with the U.S. Under-23 WYNT when she was senior at the University of Miami.
- Tullis-Joyce, who was not drafted into the NWSL in 2019 after finishing college, signed with Stade de Reims in France and moved to the Reign in 2021 where she had a successful season in 2022, helping Seattle win the regular season title. She was transferred to Manchester United in the fall of 2023 where she was the back-up to long-time England ‘keeper Mary Earps, and then became the starter this season when Earps moved to Paris Saint-Germain.
- Tullis-Joyce has appeared in eight matches for Manchester United across all competitions this season, recording six clean sheets.
- This is the first senior call-up for forward Ally Sentnor, who has had a decorated career with the U.S. Women’s Youth National Teams. She finished her U-20 career with 12 goals in 23 caps, but she also scored seven international goals in seven caps for the U.S. U-15 WYNT and two goals in two caps for the U.S. U-18 WYNT. The majority of her most important year of U-17 WYNT cycle was cancelled due to the global pandemic, but she still scored six goals in eight caps at the U-17 international level.
- Sentnor was named the NWSL Rookie of the Month and Player of the Month for July and is only the second player to win both of the awards in the same month.
- At this year’s U-20 WWC, she scored in group play against Paraguay, in the Round of 16 against Mexico and opened the scoring against the Netherlands in the Third-Place Match. Sentnor, who completed her second U-20 cycle, also forced an own goal in the USA’s epic quarterfinal comeback win against Germany and converted the opening kick in the penalty shootout to send the Americans through to the semis.
- Lily Yohannes earns her third USWNT call-up. Her first came at the 2024 SheBelieves Cup, but she did not play in that tournament.
- When she came into the match and scored in the second half of the USWNT’s June 4 win over the Korea Republic, she became, at just 16 years, 358 days, the third-youngest player ever to score for the USWNT and was the youngest player to debut for the U.S. since 2001.
- Yohannes, who has three goals in 10 appearances for Ajax this season across all competitions, could have the unique opportunity to play for her country in the nation she has called home since the age of 10. Yohannes won the Johan Cruyff Talent of the Year Award for the 2023-24 season, which is given to the most talented young player in the Dutch First Division. She scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over FC Utrecht last weekend.
- Fifteen different clubs – five from Europe and 10 from the NWSL – are represented on this roster. NJ/NY Gotham FC leads the way with six players.
- Four players on this roster were nominated for the NWSL’s year-end awards, with Emily Sams and Naomi Girma finalists for NWSL Defender of the Year, Sentnor for NWSL Rookie of the Year and Mandy Haught for NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year.
