ATLANTA (Feb. 17, 2026) – U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes has named the 26-player roster for the 2026 SheBelieves Cup, presented by Visa, with doubleheaders taking place in Nashville, Tenn. on March 1, in Columbus, Ohio on March 4 and in Harrison, N.J. on March 7. Tickets for all three match days are available via ussoccer.com.
The U.S. roster features 23 field players and three goalkeepers. The SheBelieves Cup rosters were expanded to 26 players for this year’s tournament (up from 23 in past tournaments) and each coach will name 23 players to suit up for each match, but the game day rosters can be rotated to feature any of the 26 players.
This tournament will be the 11th annual SheBelieves Cup. Before last year, the USA had won five tournaments in a row before Japan took the 2025 title. This is the second SheBelieves Cup for Hayes and the first for nine players on the roster. Just 13 players from last year’s SheBelieves Cup roster return for this year’s edition. Eleven players who were not in January training camp were named to this roster.
“The SheBelieves Cup is a fantastic tournament which gives us the opportunity to replicate the group stage of a FIFA tournament,” said Hayes. “Three quality games in quick succession also allow us to replicate conditions that will prepare us for the World Cup qualifying campaign this fall. As always, we want to keep developing our player pool to be more and more prepared. As we gain more experience, I expect our standards to keep improving.”
U.S. Women’s National Team Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals)
2026 SheBelieves Cup
GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 7), Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 5), Phallon Tullis-Joyce (Manchester United, ENG; 4)
DEFENDERS (9): Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign FC; 6/0), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 71/1), Naomi Girma (Chelsea FC, ENG; 50/2), Lilly Reale (Gotham FC; 6/0), Tara Rudd (Washington Spirit; 10/0), Emily Sonnett (Gotham FC; 113/2), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; 5/0), Kennedy Wesley (San Diego Wave FC; 3/0), Kate Wiesner (Washington Spirit; 3/0)
MIDFIELDERS (8): Sam Coffey (Manchester City, ENG; 42/5), Lindsey Heaps (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 170/38), Claire Hutton (Bay FC; 13/1), Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage; 1/0), Rose Lavelle (Gotham FC; 116/27), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 13/5), Jaedyn Shaw (Gotham FC; 31/9), Lily Yohannes (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 13/1)
FORWARDS (6): Maddie Dahlien (Seattle Reign FC; 2/0), Jameese Joseph (Chicago Stars FC; 2/1), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 49/13), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville FC; 14/6), Ally Sentnor (Kansas City Current; 15/6), Alyssa Thompson (Chelsea FC, ENG; 26/3)
The tournament schedule will see the USA open against Argentina on Sunday, March 1 at GEODIS Park in Nashville, Tenn. (4 p.m. CT / 5 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English and in Spanish on Universo and Peacock) while Canada faces Colombia at 1 p.m. CT / 2 p.m. ET (truTV and HBO Max in English and Universo and Peacock in Spanish).
The teams will then move to ScottsMiracle-Gro Field in Columbus, Ohio where the USA faces Canada on March 4 at 6:30 p.m. ET (TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English and in Spanish on Universo and Peacock) while Colombia takes on Argentina at 3:30 p.m. ET (truTV and HBO Max in English and Universo and Peacock in Spanish).
The final two games will take place at Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, N.J. on March 7, with the USA facing Colombia at 3:30 p.m. ET (TBS, truTV and HBO Max in English and in Spanish on Telemundo, Universo and Peacock) and Canada opening the doubleheader vs. Argentina at 12:30 p.m. ET (trueTV and HBO Max in English and Universo and Peacock in Spanish).
All three U.S. games are also available on the radio in English on Westwood One and in Spanish on Futbol de Primera.
Additional Notes:
- Three players on the roster have more than 100 caps, led by Lindsey Heaps (170) and followed by Rose Lavelle (116) and Emily Sonnett (113).
- Just two players have between 50-100 caps, those being Naomi Girma (with exactly 50) and Emily Fox (71), but Trinity Rodman’s next cap with be her 50th, which would make her the 71st player in USWNT history to hit that mark.
- The remainder of the roster ranges from one cap (Riley Jackson) to 42 caps (Sam Coffey).
- Twelve players on the roster have 10 caps or fewer.
- Of the 23 field players on the roster, 15 have scored in an international match, led by Heaps with 38 international goals and Lavelle with 27. The next-most goals on the roster belong to Rodman with 13.
- Jaedyn’s Shaw’s next goal will be her 10th international score.
- In an exciting new twist for players and fans, all SheBelieves Cup matches that end in ties will go directly to penalty kicks. Therefore, while the winner of the tournament will still be determined by total points, teams will get three points for a win, one point for a tie after regulation, and another point for winning the penalty kick shootout.
- Should teams be tied on points after the completion of round-robin play, the first tiebreaker will be overall goal difference, followed by most goals scored, then the head-to-head result at the end of regulation time. If the game between the teams that are tied on points ended in a draw, then the draw stands as the head-to-head result no matter which team won the penalty kick shootout. The last tiebreaker will be the Fair Play ranking, if necessary.
- The roster features 19 NWSL players (four from Gotham FC and three each from Seattle Reign FC and the Washington Spirit) and seven who are currently playing for clubs in Europe. Six of the seven are currentlycompeting in the UEFA Women’s Champions League. Lindsey Heaps and Lily Yohannes of OL Lyonnes await the winner in the quarterfinals of the Wolfsburg-Juventus two-leg series. Emily Fox’s Arsenal FC seems headed for an all-London quarterfinal clash with Naomi Girma and Alyssa Thompson’s Chelsea FC after the Gunners downed Belgian club Oud-Leuven, 4-0, in the first leg of their series. Phallon Tullis-Joyce’s Manchester United seem headed for a quarterfinal meeting with German power Bayern Munich after a 3-0 over Atletico Madrid in their two-game series.
- The average age of this 26-player training camp roster at 24.4 is only a bit higher than the average age of the USA’s January camp roster heading into camp, which was 24.1. The average age for the end-of-the-year matches against Italy was 24.8. The average age for the roster for the October 2025 matches was 24.6 and the roster for the 2025 summer matches against Ireland and Canada in June/July had an average age of 24.5.
- This is the first time a U.S. roster has NOT featured an uncapped player in a little over a year, since the 2025 SheBelieves Cup. The last roster before that one which did not feature an uncapped player was in February of 2024 for the Concacaf W Gold Cup. Even the 2024 Olympic Team had uncapped players when it was named, in Emily Sams and Hal Hershfelt, who were both alternates.
- The average caps per player on this roster heading into the first SheBelieves Cup match is 30.4, quite a difference than the average caps player heading into the Paraguay match that opened the year, which was just 6.6.
- The roster for the matches against Italy to end 2025 averaged 27.5 caps per player heading into the first match. The roster for the October 2025 matches averaged 27.3 caps per player.
- The roster for the June/July 2025 window was one of the most inexperienced, caps-wise, in the modern history of the USWNT. It averaged 10 caps per player more than the January 2026 camp roster. The average number of caps per player at the beginning of that June/July window was 18.
- Forward Emma Sears played college soccer at Ohio State, and she hails from Dublin, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. She will be competing for a chance to play for the USA for the first time in her hometown.
- Twenty players on this roster played in a FIFA Youth Women’s World Cup for the USA, emphasizing the importance of the YNT pathway to the senior National Team as well as the importance of the NWSL and other pro leagues in helping players reach their full potential.
- While this is the seventh call-up to a WNT camp for Gisele Thompson (she dressed for a game in five of those), this is just the fourth roster in which she and sister Alyssa Thompson have been selected together. The first was the 2025 SheBelieves Cup, the second was for the April 2025 matches vs. Brazil and the third was for the 2025 summer matches at which Gisele got injured after the first match and returned to her club.
- The Thompson sisters are the third pair of sisters to represent the USA. The first instance of USWNT sisters occurred in the late 1990s when twins Lorrie and Ronnie Fair were called up together. More recently, Samantha and Kristie Mewis were on the 2021 Olympic Team together.
- To date, Emma Hayes has given 32 players first caps in her 32 matches at the helm. Maddie Dahlien was 288th woman to play for the WNT, the 30th under Emma, and third of 2026. Jackson is the 290th player to play for the WNT, the 32nd under Emma, and fifth of 2026.
- Kennedy Wesley was the 25th player to get a first cap under Hayes, Jameese Joseph was the 26th and Kate Wiesner was the 27th.
- On Dec. 1, 2025, Wiesner became the 50th different player to start a match under Emma Hayes in her then 30 matches as USWNT head coach. Hayes has now given caps to 60 different players and starts to 55 different players.
- No other full-time manager named more than 36 different starters in their first 30 games in charge.
- In 2025 alone, Hayes gave 44 different players caps, the most of any coach in the 40 years of the USWNT program.
- The three goalkeepers in camp have a total of 16 career caps. Claudia Dickey of Seattle Reign FC has seven, Mandy McGlynn of the Utah Royals has five and Tullis-Joyce has four.
- There are two teenagers on the roster in Jordyn Bugg, who turns 20 in August, and Yohannes, who turns 19 in June.
- Sonnett is the oldest player on the roster while Yohannes is the youngest. Yohannes was eight years old and still living in the United States (she was two years away from her family’s move to the Netherlands) when Sonnett earned her first cap in 2015.
- There are 21 players on the roster in their 20s and just three in her 30s: Heaps, Lavelle and Sonnett.
- There are seven players on this USWNT January camp roster who were a part of the 2025 Futures Camp in Florida: Bugg, Gisele Thompson, Lilly Reale, Claire Hutton, Jackson, Dahlien and Joseph.
- Two players on the roster earned their first caps in January camp (Jackson and Dahlien) and Joseph scored her first USWNT goal in the same match in which she earned her first start, against Chile on Feb. 27 in Santa Barbara.
- Twelve players on the roster made their USWNT debuts in 2025 or 2026: Bugg, Dahlien, Dickey, Hutton, Jackson, Joseph, Tara Rudd, Reale, Gisele Thompson, Tullis-Joyce, Wesley and Wiesner.
- Nine players who earned U.S. U-23 WNT minutes in 2025 are on this roster: Bugg, Dahlien, Jackson, Joseph, Reale, Ally Sentnor, Shaw, Gisele Thompson and Wesley.
