CANADA AGAIN: After opening the 2026 SheBelieves Cup with a 2-0 win over Argentina in Nashville, Tenn. on goals from Lindsey Heaps and Jaedyn Shaw, the USA now faces Canada in the second tournament match for both teams with the winner likely getting a huge leg up towards the tournament title. The long-time rivals will face off on March 4 at ScottsMiracle Gro Field in Columbus, Ohio. (6:45 p.m. ET on TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English and in Spanish on Universo and Peacock and on the radio on Westwood One in English and Futból de Primera in Spanish). The USA and Canada are both preparing for the 2026 Concacaf W Championship will kick off in November in a country and venue(s) still to be announced. That tournament will feature the USA, Canada and six qualifier winners with FIFA Women’s World Cup 2027 and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics berths on the line. As host, the USA has an automatic berth to the next Olympic games.
U.S. Women’s National Team Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals) – 2026 SheBelieves Cup
GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 8) Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 5), Phallon Tullis-Joyce (Manchester United, ENG; 4)
DEFENDERS (9): Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 72/1), Naomi Girma (Chelsea FC; 50/2), Avery Patterson (Houston Dash; 9/1), Lilly Reale (Gotham FC; 7/0), Tara Rudd (Washington Spirit; 11/0), Emily Sams (Angel City FC; 9/1), Emily Sonnett (Gotham FC; 113/2), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; 6/0), Kennedy Wesley (San Diego Wave FC; 4/0)
MIDFIELDERS (8): Sam Coffey (Manchester City, ENG; 42/5), Lindsey Heaps (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 171/39), Claire Hutton (Bay FC; 14/1), Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage; 1/0), Rose Lavelle (Gotham FC; 116/27), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 14/5), Jaedyn Shaw (Gotham FC; 32/10), Lily Yohannes (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 14/1)
FORWARDS (6): Maddie Dahlien (Seattle Reign FC; 3/0), Jameese Joseph (Chicago Stars FC; 3/0), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 50/13), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville FC; 15/6), Ally Sentnor (Kansas City Current; 16/6), Alyssa Thompson (Chelsea FC, ENG; 27/3)
SBC FORMAT – WE GOT PKS: As the annual SheBelieves Cup hits its 11th year, one of the most prestigious four-team tournaments in women’s soccer is back again in its original format. Due to the change in FIFA competition windows during an Olympic year, the 2024 edition saw a two-venue, four-game tournament that featured semifinals, a Third-Place Match and the Championship Game. As 2025 and 2026 are not Summer Olympic years, the SheBelieves Cup returned to its original six-game, three-venue format featuring three doubleheaders and will remain that way until the 2028 tournament. In 2026, the tournament takes on a Concacaf vs. CONMEBOL slant as the USA welcomes Argentina, Canada and Colombia. In a fun new twist for fans and players, for this year’s tournament, all matches that end in draws after regulation time will go directly to a penalty kick shootout. The winner of the tournament will be based on total points after three matches: three (3) points awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw during regulation, one (1) additional point awarded for the winner of penalty kicks, and zero (0) for a defeat. If two or more teams are equal based on the above criteria, their ranking shall be determined as follows: overall tournament goal difference; most total tournament goals scored; head-to-head result between the teams concerned. If a match is tied at the end of regulation, that will count as the head-to-head result. The result of the penalty kick shootout will not apply to this tiebreaker.
SBC PARTICIPANT HISTORY: Colombia will make its second appearance in the SheBelieves Cup after attending last year and finishing third. Canada will make its fourth appearance after participating in 2024 (second place), 2023 (fourth) and 2021 (third). This is Argentina’s second SBC appearance after finishing fourth in 2021. The USA won five consecutive SheBelieves Cups before Japan took the title in 2025. The USA has seven overall SBC titles, while France won in 2017 and England took top honors in 2019. The U.S. is currently ranked second in the world, Canada is 10th, Colombia is 20th and Argentina is 30th. The USA and Canada are the top two teams in the Concacaf region while Colombia and Argentina faced each other in the semifinals of the 2025 Copa American Feminina, with Colombia winning on penalty kicks before losing to Brazil in the final, also on penalty kicks, after a wild 4-4 draw in regulation and overtime.
WHERE TO WATCH: With the first two matches in the books, the teams will move to ScottsMiracle-Gro Field in Columbus, Ohio where the USA faces Canada on March 4 at 6:45 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.
2026 SheBelieves Cup, Presented by Visa
| Date |
Matches |
Stadium |
City |
Kickoff (Local) |
| March 4 |
Argentina vs. Colombia |
ScottsMiracle-Gro Field |
Columbus, Ohio |
3:30 p.m. ET |
| March 4 |
USA vs. Canada |
ScottsMiracle-Gro Field |
Columbus, Ohio |
6:45 p.m. ET |
| March 7 |
Canada vs. Argentina |
Sports Illustrated Stadium |
Harrison, N.J. |
12:30 p.m. ET |
| March 7 |
USA vs. Colombia |
Sports Illustrated Stadium |
Harrison, N.J. |
3:30 p.m. ET |
32 DEBUTS IN 32 GAMES: U.S. head coach Emma Hayes gave 32 players their international debuts in the first 32 matches since she officially started her position as head coach of the USWNT in June of 2024. Before Hayes, Jill Ellis gave 30 players their first caps in 132 games at the U.S. helm while Vlatko Andonovski debuted 18 players in 65 games. In matches when at least one player debuted, the U.S. is 19W-0L-1D, including Hayes’ first three matches at the helm, where three players made their debuts and the USWNT won all three matches. At the end of 2025, Hayes had given 27 debuts in 29 matches. To open 2026, she gave five players their first caps in the first camp of the year: forward Reilyn Turner, forward Maddie Dahlien, midfielder Sally Menti, midfielder Riley Jackson and defender Ayo Oke.
SISTER, SISTER: The Thompson sisters are the third pair of sisters to represent the USA. The first time Gisele and her older sister Alyssa were called in together was last year’s SheBelieves Cup, and they became the first pair of sisters to come to camp from the same professional club (Angel City FC). The first instance of sisters on the same USWNT roster 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. This is Gisele Thompson’s seventh USWNT call-up after first training with the team at the beginning of 2024. Alyssa was a member of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Team but saw limited action in that tournament, was out of the National Team for about a year but has made a strong push over 2025 with club and country to earn more minutes on the wing under Emma Hayes. The Thompson sisters have started two games together, and have played in four games together, with Alyssa starting on June 26 vs. Ireland and Gisele coming off the bench to play the final 32 minutes. They both started against Australia in the 2025 SheBelieves Cup and against Brazil on April 8. Most recently, Gisele started the USA’s first match of the 2026 SheBelieves Cup vs. Argentina, with Alyssa subbing on late in the match.
VISA SHEBELIEVES CUP MVP: For the seventh year in a row, Visa, the presenting partner of the SheBelieves Cup, will award the MVP trophy to the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament. The award will be announced following the conclusion of the final match. Spain’s Alexia Putellas – the Ballon d’Or winner in both 2021 and 2022 -- won the inaugural award in 2020. The USA claimed top honors for the next four years as Rose Lavelle won the award in 2021, Catarina Macario won it in 2022, Mallory Swanson took home the trophy in 2023 and Sophia Smith (now Wilson) claimed MVP honors in 2024. In 2025, Japan’s Mina Tanaka, who plays in the NWSL with the Utah Royals, won the award. A new selection committee comprised of representatives from all competing nations will be announced for the 2026 SheBelieves Cup while fans will once again have the opportunity to vote for the Visa SheBelieves Cup MVP award recipient via online ballot to select among a list of finalists chosen by the committee. The fan vote will be incorporated into the overall determination of the 2026 Visa SheBelieves Cup MVP.
TEAM NOTES
- Since its inception in 1985, the USWNT has compiled a record of 608 wins, 75 losses and 91 ties. Over the history of the program, the USA has gone 362W-25L-37D (90% winning percentage) at home, 59W-20L-16D away (71%) and 187W-30L-38D (81%) on neutral ground. The USA’s overall winning percentage of 84% is the best all-time of any international sports team in history. Of the USA’s 75 losses, 12 (16%) came at the Algarve Cup in Portugal, long one of the world’s most competitive tournaments but one in which the USA no longer competes.
- Since the end of the 2015 World Cup, the USA has played 204 matches with a 167W-14L-23D record.
- So far in 2026, of the USA’s combined 13 goals and 12 assists, 64% involved a player under 25.
- Goals by players under 25: Two from 21-year-old Ally Sentnor, 24-year-old Emma Sears and 23-year-old Trinity Rodman, one each from 23-year-olds Reilyn Turner and Jameese Joseph, 24-year-old Croix Bethune and 21-year-old Jaedyn Shaw.
- Assists by players under 25: One each from 20-year-olds Olivia Moultrie, Riley Jackson and Gisele Thompson, 23-year-old Ayo Oke and 24-year-olds Croix Bethune and Emma Sears.
- In 2025, of the USA’s combined 41 goals and 28 assists this year, 51% involved a player under 25.
- Thirty-six of the USA’s 50 goals in 2024 (68%) were scored or assisted by a player under 25.
- Sixteen players made their USWNT debuts in 2025 which is the most U.S. debuts in a calendar year since the first year of the program (1985). Eleven players debuted for the USWNT in 2024, which was the most in a calendar year since 2001, when 15 players – including eventual World Cup champions Abby Wambach and Lori Chalupny – earned their first caps. Five players have debuted for the U.S. in 2026 so far.
- Just three players on the roster have more than 100 caps, led by Lindsey Heaps (171) and followed by Rose Lavelle (116) and Emily Sonnett (113).
- Just three players have between 50-100 caps, those being Naomi Girma and Trinity Rodman have exactly 50 (Rodman hitting that milestone in her brief appearance on Sunday vs. Argentina) and Emily Fox with 71. Trinity Rodman is the 71st player in USWNT history to hit that mark and one of only 14 active players who have crossed that mark. The other 57 have retired from professional soccer.
- The remainder of the roster ranges from one cap (Riley Jackson) to 42 caps (Sam Coffey).
- 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.
- The roster features 19 NWSL players (four from Gotham FC and three from the Washington Spirit, who lead the NWSL in call-ups) and seven who are currently playing for clubs in Europe.
- The average caps per player on this roster heading into the first SheBelieves Cup match is 30.6, quite a difference than the average caps player heading into the Paraguay match that opened the year, which was just 6.6.
- The two matches in 2026 thus far have featured the two least-capped Starting XIs since 2001. The Jan. 27 match against Chile averaged 5.2 caps per player heading into the game while the Jan. 24 match vs. Paraguay averaged 9.6 caps before the opening whistle.
- Before that, the lowest average caps per player was vs. New Zealand on Oct. 29, 2025, with 17.3 caps heading into the match, which is a just bit lower than the April 8, 2025, Starting XI vs. Brazil which averaged 17.9 caps per player.
- 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.
- Yohannes, who turns 19 in June, is the lone teenager on this roster.
- Sonnett is the oldest player on the roster while Yohannes is the youngest. Yohannes was eight years old and still living in the U.S.(two years away from moving to the Netherlands) when Sonnett earned her first cap in 2015.
- There are 22 players on the roster in their 20s and just three in their 30s: Heaps, Lavelle and Sonnett.
- There are six players on this USWNT SheBelieves Cup roster who were a part of the 2025 Futures Camp in Florida: 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.
- Eleven players on the roster made their USWNT debuts in 2025 or 2026:Dahlien, Dickey, Hutton, Jackson, Joseph, Avery Patterson, Tara Rudd, Reale, Gisele Thompson, Tullis-Joyce and Wesley.
- Eight players who earned U.S. U-23 WNT minutes in 2025 are on this roster: Dahlien, Jackson, Joseph, Reale, Ally Sentnor, Shaw, Gisele Thompson and Wesley.
IN FOCUS: CANADA
FIFA World Ranking: 10
Concacaf Ranking: 2
World Cup Appearances: 8 (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023)
Best World Cup Finish: Fourth place (2003)
Record vs. USA: 4W-54L-9D
Head Coach: Casey Stoney
CANADA’S WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION
GOALKEEPERS (3): Emily Burns (Nantes FC, FRA; 0), Melissa Dagenais (Ottawa Rapid FC; 0), Kailen Sheridan (North Carolina Courage, USA; 64)
DEFENDERS (7): Gabrielle Carle (Washington Spirit, USA; 61/1), Sydney Collins (Bay FC, USA; 9/1), Brooklyn Courtnall (Bay FC, USA; 1/0), Vanessa Gilles (FC Bayern Munich, GER; 57/9), Marie Levasseur (Montpellier, FRA; 16/0), Megan Reid (Denver Summit, USA; 3/1), Jade Rose (Manchester City, ENG; 36/1),
MIDFIELDERS (5): Mimi Alidou (Portland Thorns FC, 18/5), Simi Awoju (Manchester United, ENG; 29/1), Jessie Fleming (Portland Thorns FC, USA; 152/20), Julia Grosso (Chicago Stars FC, USA; 79/5), Emma Regan (Denver Summit, USA; 124/36)
FORWARDS (9): Annabelle Chukwu (University of Notre Dame, USA; 2/0), Jordyn Huitema (Seattle Reign FC, USA; 95/23), Kaylee Hunter (AFC Toronto; 0/0), Cloe Lacasse (Utah Royals, USA; 39/6), DB Pridham (Ottawa Rapid FC; 1/0), Nichelle Prince (Boston Legacy, USA; 114/18) Evelyne Viens (AS Roma, ITA; 44/8), Janine Sonis (Denver Summit, USA; 124/37), Holly Ward (Vancouver Rise FC; 8/2)
USA vs. CANADA
- This year's SheBelieves Cup marks yet another match in the long-time series against Canada, the USA's most frequent opponent at 67 all-time meetings.
- The USA holds a 54W-4L-9D all-time record against Canada with the most recent match a 3-0 win for the USA during the Allstate Continental Clasico on July 2, 2025, in Washington, D.C.
- In their last SheBelieves meeting, the U.S. defeated Canada in a penalty shootout after Sophia Smith (now Wilson) and Adriana Leon each put up a brace for their respective countries. Famously, Alyssa Naeher saved the third Canadian attempt, buried her own penalty kick and then immediately saved the fourth attempt from Canada. Wilson, Lindsey Heaps, Abby Dahlkemper and Emily Fox converted their attempts alongside Naeher to ultimately win 5-4.
CANADA NOTES
- Canada has taken part in eight FIFA Women’s World Cups. Their best result came in 2003 when they earned fourth place. In 2019, they made the Round of 16 and in 2015 they made the quarterfinals and ultimately placed sixth. All their other appearances have resulted in group stage exits.
- Canada has competed in five Olympics, winning gold in 2020 and bronze in both 2012 and 2016. They made the quarterfinals in 2008 and 2024.
- Six of the players on this Canada roster have more than 50 caps.
- Four players on this roster play club soccer in Canada (Dagenais, Pridham, Hunter, Ward), 14 players play professionally or in college in the U.S., three in France, two in England and one in Germany and Italy.
- Annabelle Chukwu is the only collegiate player on this roster. She plays for the University of Notre Dame.
- All 13 professional players who play in the U.S., play in the NWSL. The most represented NWSL club on the roster is the Denver Summit with three players. Portland Thorns FC and Bay FC each have two players on the Canadian roster.
