USWNT vs. Portugal
Date: Oct. 26, 2025
Venue: Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field, Hartford, Conn.
Broadcast:TNT, truTV & HBO Max in English, Universo & Peacock in Spanish
Radio: Westwood One Sports
Official Kickoff Time: 4:07 p.m. ET
USA: 18-Claudia Dickey; 3-Avery Patterson, 4-Jordyn Bugg, 7-Lily Yohannes, 8-Jaedyn Shaw, 9-Ally Sentnor, 13-Olivia Moultrie, 14-Emily Sonnett (Capt.), 15-Claire Hutton, 21-Alyssa Thompson, 25-Lilly Reale
Available Subs: 24-Phallon Tullis-Joyce, 6-Emily Sams, 10-Lindsey Heaps, 11-Lo’eau LaBonta, 12-Michelle Cooper, 16-Rose Lavelle, 17-Sam Coffey, 19-Emma Sears, 20-Catarina Macario, 22-Yazmeen Ryan, 23-Emily Fox, 26-Kennedy Wesley
Not dressing: Tara McKeown, Mandy McGlynn, Eva Gaetino
Head coach: Emma Hayes
USWNT Starting XI Cap Numbers (Including this match): Sonnett (112), Shaw (28), Thompson (24), Sentnor (13), Moultrie (10), Yohannes (10), Hutton (8), Patterson (8), Bugg (3), Reale (3), Dickey (3)
Notes:
U.S. head coach Emma Hayes had made eight changes to the starting lineup that faced Portugal on Oct. 23 with only Sonnett, Thompson and Patterson the only three starting a second consecutive game.
Starting center back Emily Sonnett has more caps (111) heading into this match than the rest of the roster combined (100).
The U.S. Starting XI averages 19.2 caps per player heading into this match. The least experienced team by caps fielded by the USWNT in the last 25 years came this year on April 8, 2025, when the average caps for the Starting XI vs. Brazil was 17.9.
The average age of tonight’s Starting XI is 21.7. Excluding Sonnett, the average age is Under-21 at 20.7.
Three teenagers will start tonight: Lily Yohannes (18), Clarie Hutton (19) and Jordyn Bugg (19). Before 2025 when Emma Hayes has now started three teenagers twice -- on April 8, 2025, vs. Brazil and today -- the last time the USWNT had three or more teenagers start a match ON WHAT WAS CONSIDERED THE BEST ROSTER AVAILABLE was on February 9, 2000 vs. Norway. Those players were Nandi Pryce, Christie Welsh and Danielle Slaton.
The USWNT started multiple teenagers in multiple matches at the 2001 Algarve Cup, but that comes with a caveat. The USA sent a very young team to that tournament because the veteran players were in pre-season for the first year of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). Before that 2001 Algarve Cup, the last time three teenagers started a game for the USWNT was against Italy on July 7, 2000, but that match also featured a young roster because the U.S. played 41 matches that year so then-U.S. head coach April Heinrichs gave most of the veterans off and called mostly a team U-21s mixed with a few older players. Similarly, all the players that faced Iceland on April 5, 2000, of that year in a closed-door match – seven teenagers started that one -- were on the younger half of the roster as the veterans played Iceland in a promoted game three days later. Amazingly, the young players won 8-0, and the veterans tied 0-0.
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STARTING XI NOTES:
Claudia Dickey, 25,earns her third USWNT cap at the senior level. Dickey was the 29th goalkeeper in USWNT history to earn a cap when she played against Ireland on June 26, and the 11th GK in U.S. history to earn a shutout in her debut.
Avery Patterson, 23, will earn her eighth cap and make her sixth start, after making her first appearance on April 5 vs. Brazil in Los Angeles when she came on at the end of the match. Patterson, who has three goals from the outside back position this year for the Houston Dash, has been in the USA’s Youth National Team program at the U-14, U-20 and U-23 levels before moving up to the senior team.
Jordyn Bugg, 19, earns her third cap and second start at the senior level. She has two goals this season from center back for the Reign, the first a tremendous strike from distance in August against the NC Courage and a last-minute equalizer against the Chicago Stars on June 14 that snuck into the goal from the right wing. She’s one of three teenagers in camp, along with Lily Yohannes and Claire Hutton. All three will start for the U.S. today. Bugg is the second player born in 2006 ever called into the USWNT after Claire Hutton.
Lily Yohannes, 18, is the youngest player on the roster. Yohannes is joined by Hutton and Bugg as the only teenagers in camp. This is her sixth senior team callup, her tenth cap and sixth start. 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 of 2017 for the training camp prior to matches against Russia in Texas.
Jaedyn Shaw, 20, earns her 28th cap and 12th start. Shaw was transferred from the NC Courage to Gotham FC on Sept. 11 in an NWSL intraleague-record $1.25 million transfer. She returns to the U.S. roster after spending the last two FIFA windows with the U-23 WNT, a trip to Germany for two matches and a camp in Colorado. She started both matches for the U-23s in Germany, a 2-1 win and 2-1 loss. She came off the bench on Oct. 23 vs. Portugal to earn her first WNT minutes since April 8 vs. Brazil.
Ally Sentnor, 21, earns her 13th cap and sixth start. The KC Current forward has played in every match she’s dressed for. She was the No. 1 overall selection in the 2024 NWSL Draft and earned the 2024 U.S. Soccer Young Female Player of the Year award.
Olivia Moultrie, 20, earns her tenth cap and fourth start. The Portland Thorns midfielder is newly 20, as of Sept. 17, but just before her birthday, she set a new NWSL record. Moultrie is the highest-scoring teenager in NWSL history with 14 goals . She passed USWNT teammate Jaedyn Shaw on Sept. 15. Shaw held the record with 13 before Moultrie.
Emily Sonnett, 32,starts in the center of the defense to earn her 112th career cap. This is the third time she has captained the USWNT. She will be making her 60th start today, meaning she has started 54% of her career caps. In May, Sonnett helped Gotham FC win the first-ever Concacaf W Champions Cup and earned the penalty kick that gave her side the 1-0 win over UNAL Tigres, thereby qualifying for the 2026 FIFA Women's Champions Cup and the inaugural FIFA Women's Club World Cup in 2028.
Claire Hutton, 19, earns her eighth cap and sixth start, all within 2025. Hutton’s first call-up was in February of 2025, and she made her debut in the second match of her first camp. Hutton had an excellent rookie year in 2024, logging 1,827 in 24 matches for the Kansas City Current after signing via NWSL's Under-18 Entry Mechanism on December 14, 2023. This season, she has played in 24 of the Current’s 25 matches, playing a major role in the runaway Sheild winners’ success. She has two assists.
Alyssa Thompson,20,will earn her 24th cap and her 13th career start. Thompson, who scored five goals – with one assist – in a five-game span at the end of the 2024 NWSL season after not scoring all 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.
Lilly Reale, 22, makes her third start in as many caps this afternoon. The Gotham FC rookie has made a name for herself at left back for the New Jersey side, especially as a natural left-footer. She attended the Futures Camp in January, the U-23 WNT training camp in LA in April and traveled with the U-23s to Germany during the last FIFA window, scoring the first goal in the USA’s 2-1 win over Germany in the first game. She also played for the U.S. U-23s in 2023 and has four U-23 caps and one goal.
