USWNT
The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics via the 2022 Concacaf W Championship, which was held from July 5-July 18 in Monterrey, Mexico. The USA won all five games of the tournament but the match that qualified the USA for Paris was the 1-0 victory over Canada in the championship game.
On June 26, 2024, new U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes named her Olympic roster and it included eight players from the 2020 Olympic Team, 10 players from the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup Team and four players named to their first roster at a senior world championship.
The Olympic roster is broken down by position into two goalkeepers, six defenders, five midfielders and five forwards, but numerous players on the roster can and have played multiple positions for the USA.
The 18-player roster has an average age of 26.8, which is the fourth-youngest roster the USA has ever sent to the Olympics and the youngest since 2008. The average age of the 2020 Olympic Team was 30.8 years old.
2024 U.S. Olympic Women’s Soccer Team Roster by Position (Caps/Goals):
GOALKEEPERS (2): Casey Murphy (North Carolina Courage; 19), Alyssa Naeher (Chicago Red Stars; 104)
DEFENDERS (6): Tierna Davidson (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 58/3), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 49/1), Naomi Girma (San Diego Wave FC; 32/0), Casey Krueger (Washington Spirit; 49/0), Jenna Nighswonger (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 9/2), Emily Sonnett (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 91/2)
MIDFIELDERS (5): Korbin Albert (Paris Saint-Germain, FRA; 11/0), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 17/1), Lindsey Horan (Olympique Lyon, FRA; 148/35), Rose Lavelle (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 100/24), Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC, ENG; 19/8)
FORWARDS (5): Crystal Dunn (NJ/NY Gotham FC; 147/25), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 38/7), Jaedyn Shaw (San Diego Wave FC; 14/7), Sophia Smith (Portland Thorns FC; 48/19), Mallory Swanson (Chicago Red Stars; 92/34)
At the 2024 Paris Olympics, the eighth Olympic Games to feature women’s soccer – all of which have featured the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team -- the U.S. will open Group B play on July 25 – one day before the Opening Ceremonies – against Zambia (9 p.m. local / 3 p.m. ET) at Stade de Nice in Nice. The Americans will then play Germany on July 28 (9 p.m. local / 3 p.m. ET) at Marseille’s Stade de Marseille in their second match and finish group play against Australia on July 31 (7 p.m. local / 1 p.m. ET), also in Marseille. Located in the south of France, Nice is nearly 600 miles from Paris near France’s border with Monaco and Italy. Marseille, located 125 miles west of Nice, is the second-largest city in France.
Prior to the naming of this roster, 19 USWNT players had previously made three or more Olympic Teams. Add to that list three-time Olympians Alyssa Naeher, Crystal Dunn and Lindsey Horan.
Defenders Tierna Davidson, Emily Sonnett and Casey Krueger, midfielders Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario and forward Mallory Swanson make their second Olympic Teams. Krueger and Macario were initially named as alternates for the 2020 Olympics, but when rosters were expanded from 18 to 22 due to the pandemic, they were officially added to the team. Each played a few minutes in one match. Swanson was not named to the Olympic roster in 2021 but did play in the 2016 Olympics in Brazil at the age of 18.
The first-time Olympians are goalkeeper Casey Murphy, defenders Emily Fox, Naomi Girma and Jenna Nighswonger, midfielders Korbin Albert and Sam Coffey and forwards Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith and Jaedyn Shaw. For Nighswonger, Albert, Coffey and Shaw, the 2024 Paris Olympics will be their first senior level world championship.
Fourteen of the 18 players on the roster have played for the USA in a FIFA Women’s World Cup at the youth level.
There are 14 National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) players on the roster and they come from just six clubs: five from NJ/NY Gotham FC and two each from the Chicago Red Stars, Portland Thorns FC, San Diego Wave FC and Washington Spirit. Murphy is the lone representative from the North Carolina Courage.
The other four players compete for European clubs and two – Horan and Albert – return to France where they play their club soccer for rivals Olympique Lyon and Paris Saint-Germain, respectively. Macario (Chelsea FC) and Fox (Arsenal FC) ply their trades in England’s Women’s Super League, though Macario began her international career with Lyon in 2021 and won a UEFA Women’s Champions League title with the perennial French powers.
The USA won the inaugural Olympic gold medal for women’s soccer in 1996 in Atlanta, won silver in 2000 in Sydney and then won three straight golds, standing atop the podium in Athens, Greece in 2004, Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012. The USA fell in the quarterfinals in penalty kicks in 2016 and earned a bronze medal in 2021. The USWNT is 24W-4L-7D all-time in Olympic competition.
USMNT
This summer, the U.S. Men’s Olympic Soccer Team will return to the Games for the first time since 2008. The squad’s Olympic resurgence comes as an exciting generation of young talent has boosted the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team program to new heights. The Men’s Olympic Soccer Tournament is an Under-23 competition with an allowance for three overage players and will thus provide a showcase for some of the country’s brightest rising stars. After qualifying with a historic third-straight Concacaf U-20 Championship, the Olympic roster will be named in early July.
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USWNT | Aaron Heifetz - aheifetz@ussoccer.org
USMNT | Chris Kennedy - ckennedy@ussoccer.org
