USWNT vs. ITALY: Starting XI & Lineup Notes
Date: Nov. 28, 2025
Venue: Inter&Co Stadium, Orlando, Fla.
Broadcast:TNT and HBO Max in English, Universo and Peacock in Spanish
Radio: Westwood One Sports
Official Kickoff Time: 7:07 p.m. ET
USA: 18-Claudia Dickey; 4-Naomi Girma, 12-Lilly Reale, 13-Olivia Moultrie, 14-Emily Sonnett, 15-Claire Hutton, 16-Rose Lavelle, 17-Sam Coffey, 20-Cat Macario, 21-Alyssa Thompson, 23-Emily Fox
Available Subs: 1-Mandy McGlynn, 2-Jordyn Bugg, 3-Avery Patterson, 5-Kennedy Wesley, 6-Emily Sams, 7-Lily Yohannes, 8-Jaedyn Shaw, 9-Kate Wiesner, 10-Lindsey Heaps, 19-Emma Sears, 25-Jaelin Howell, 26-Jameese Joseph
Not dressing: Jordan Silkowitz, Croix Bethune, Izzy Rodriguez
USWNT Starting XI Cap Numbers (Including this match): Lavelle (116), Sonnett (113), Fox (70), Girma (49), Coffey (42), Macario (28), Thompson (25), Moultrie (11), Hutton (10), Reale (5), Dickey (5)
Notes:
- U.S. head coach Emma Hayes will send out a veteran Starting XI, especially as compared to many of the matches this year. Only three starters come into the match with fewer than 10 caps.
- Tonight’s captain, Naomi Girma, returns to her place on the backline after 149 days away from international play. She missed the October window due to injury. She will wear the captain’s armband from the start of the match for the fourth time in her international career.
- One teenager will start for the U.S. tonight: Claire Hutton who is 19 years old. She is one of three teenagers on this roster. Jordyn Bugg is also 19 and the youngest on the roster is 18-year-old Lily Yohannes.
- The roster for this camp features 20 NWSL Players, including seven players who competed for the 2025 NWSL Championship: Lilly Reale, Emily Sonnett, Jaelin Howell, Rose Lavelle and Jaedyn Shaw of Gotham FC and Kate Wiesner and Croix Bethune of the Washington Spirit. Seven of the 20 players were up for NWSL regular season awards and Reale was named Rookie of the Year after her outstanding run for the New Jersey club. Reale, Sonnett and Rose start tonight.
- Tonight’s Starting XI averages 42.3 caps entering the match, more than double the average caps vs. New Zealand on Oct. 29 (17.3 – the fewest average caps to start a match in 25 years).
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STARTING XI NOTES:
Claudia Dickey, 25, earns her fifth 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. She will be starting in back-to-back games for the first time in her WNT career.
Emily Fox, 27, earns her 70th cap to become 55th all time in USWNT appearance history. The Arsenal defender was nominated for the 2025 Concacaf Player of the Year award and the Ballon d’Or. She was also named to the 2024/25 PFA WSL Team of the Year and played a key role in Arsenal’s magical run to the 2025 UFEA Women’s Champions League title. Her performance earned UEFA Women’s Champions League Team of the Season recognition.
Naomi Girma, 25, is back from injury and will play in her first WNT match 149 days. This is her 49th cap and 47th start, having only subbed on twice in her international career. Girma will start a match with the captain’s arm band tonight for the fourth time in her international career.
Olivia Moultrie, 20, earns her 11th cap and makes her fifth start. The Portland Thorns midfielder is newly 20, as of Sept. 17, but just before her birthday, she set a new NWSL record as 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 113th career cap. She will be making her 61st start today, meaning she has started in just 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. She and the Bats would go on to win the NWSL Championship on November 22, 2025.
Claire Hutton, 19, earns her 10th cap and eighth 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 played in 24 of the Current’s 25 matches, playing a major role in the runaway Shield winners’ success. She had two assists.
Rose Lavelle, 30, earns her 116th cap. On June 26 vs. Ireland, she became the 25th player in U.S. history with a combined 50 career goals and assists and the 28th player to hit 25 career goals. She will be looking for her 28th career goal in this two-game set vs. Italy.
Cat Macario, 26, will earn her 28th career cap. Against Colombia on Feb. 20, 2025, she scored her first USWNT goal in 712 days and more recently hit double-digit goals. Her tenth goal came against the county of her birth country, Brazil, in April and the 11th came against China PR at the end of May.
Alyssa Thompson, 20, will earn her 25th cap and make her 14th career start. She 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 fifth start in as many caps tonight. The Gotham FC rookie has made a name for herself at left back for the New Jersey side, helping the Bats to an NWSL title. 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.
Sam Coffey, 26, earns her 42nd career cap and makes her 30th career start. She started 19 games in 2024 after just two combined starts in 2022 (her debut year) and 2023. She scored her fifth career goal on Oct. 26 vs. Portugal off a corner kick service from Ally Sentnor.
