ATLANTA (May 27, 2026) – U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Emma Hayes has named a 26-player training camp roster for the two matches in Brazil against the nine-time South American champions.
The USA will face the hosts of 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup on June 6 at Neo Química Arena in São Paulo (5:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.m. local time on TBS, Max, Telemundo, Universo and Peacock) and on June 9 at Arena Castelão in Fortaleza (8:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 p.m. local time on TNT, Max and Peacock). Both matches will also be broadcast on the radio on Westwood One. The USA currently sits second in the FIFA Women’s World Rankings while Brazil is sixth. Hayes will name 23 players to suit up for each of the matches.
U.S. Women’s National Team Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals)
2026 June Matches vs. Brazil
GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 10), Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 5), Phallon Tullis-Joyce (Manchester United, ENG; 7)
DEFENDERS (8): Tierna Davidson (Gotham FC; 69/3), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 76/1), Avery Patterson (Houston Dash; 12/1), Lilly Reale (Gotham FC; 9/0), Tara Rudd (Washington Spirit; 12/0), Emily Sonnett (Gotham FC; 116/2), Gisele Thompson (Angel City FC; 10/0), Kennedy Wesley (San Diego Wave FC; 6/1)
MIDFIELDERS (8): Croix Bethune (Kansas City Current; 7/1), Lindsey Heaps (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 176/40), Claire Hutton (Bay FC; 18/1), Riley Jackson (North Carolina Courage; 1/0), Rose Lavelle (Gotham FC; 120/29), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 17/5), Jaedyn Shaw (Gotham FC; 36/10), Lily Yohannes (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 18/1)
FORWARDS (7): Michelle Cooper (Kansas City Current; 12/1), Trinity Rodman (Washington Spirit; 55/13), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville FC; 19/6), Ally Sentnor (Kansas City Current; 21/7), Mallory Swanson (Chicago Stars; 103/38), Alyssa Thompson (Chelsea FC, ENG; 31/4), Sophia Wilson (Portland Thorns FC; 61/24)
With several players who have enjoyed consistent call-ups under Hayes currently unavailable due to injuries, roster spots opened up for several players who were not on the USA’s squad for the April tri-series against Japan, most notably defender Tara Rudd and midfielders Croix Bethune and Riley Jackson. Goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn from the NWSL’s current first-place side Utah Royals returns to the roster after recovering from a hand injury while forward Mallory Swanson gets the call-up to her first USWNT training camp since October of 2024 and the first since the birth of her daughter in mid-November of last year.
The inclusion of Swanson, who has played in two matches with the Chicago Stars so far this season, means that Rodman, Swanson and Wilson -- the self-monikered “Triple Espresso” who helped lead the USA to the 2024 Olympic gold medal -- will be on the same roster for the first time in almost 22 months. At the 2024 Olympics, the trio combined for 10 goals and five assists with Swanson scoring the game-winning goal in the Olympic Final on the occasion of her 100th cap.
If Swanson plays on June 6, it will mark 604 days between U.S. Women’s National Team appearances. She currently has 103 caps and 38 goals, which puts her in 17th all-time on the USA’s all-time goal scorer list at the age of 28. Should she play in São Paulo, it would mark 665 days since the 2024 Olympic gold medal game.
“It’s fantastic for our team, both on and off the field, to have Trinity and our two soccer moms back on the same roster,” said Hayes. “However, we recognize the importance of preparing for World Cup qualifying and the need for the group to come together in that process. We need to build connections between players, and with limited time before qualifying, every minute counts. This trip offers amazing opportunities for these players to experience Brazil, its culture, stadiums, and passionate fans, and especially playing the World Cup hosts. Few challenges in women’s international soccer compare to facing Brazil in Brazil, so we’re excited for the valuable lessons this experience will bring.”
Additional Notes:
- During the April matches against Japan, forward Sophia Wilson made her first USWNT roster in 15 months following her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter in early September of 2025. The 25-year-old Wilson has 61 caps for the USWNT along with 24 goals.
- Wilson is the 18th mother to play for the USWNT. Should Mallory Swanson see game action in Brazil, she would be the 19th.
- Wilson has scored four goals so far in her return to the NWSL but is looking for her first international goal since the 2024 Olympic semifinal win over Germany.
- For the third camp in a row, the USWNT roster has zero uncapped players on it, marking the only three rosters of Emma Hayes’ tenure without uncapped players.
- Players not available for selection due to injury include Naomi Girma, Cat Macario and Sam Coffey.
- Thirteen different players have scored for the U.S. thus far in 2026 and nine of them are on this roster, led by Ally Sentnor with three goals. Rose Lavelle, Lindsey Heaps, Emma Sears and Trinity Rodman each have two goals after eight matches so far this year.
- Four players on the roster have more than 100 caps, led by Heaps (176) and followed by Lavelle (120), Sonnett (116) and Swanson (103).
- Four players have between 50-100 caps: Emily Fox (76), Tierna Davidson (69), Wilson (61) and Rodman (55).
- Eight players have 10 or fewer caps.
- Of the 23 field players on the roster, 19 have scored in an international match, led by Heaps with 40 international goals. Swanson has 38 goals, Lavelle has 29 and Wilson has 24. The only other players with double figures are Rodman with 13 and Jaedyn Shaw, who scored her 10th career goal on March 1 against Argentina at the SheBelieves Cup.
- The only field players on the roster who haven’t scored in an international match are defenders Gisele Thompson (10 caps), Lilly Reale (nine caps), Tara Rudd (12 caps) and midfielder Riley Jackson (one cap). Gisele Thompson does have three goals this season with Angel City FC.
- The roster features 21 NWSL players and five who are currently playing for clubs in Europe.
- Gotham FC leads the NWSL in players called up with five; the Kansas City Current has the next most with three.
- Lindsey Heaps and Lily Yohannes from OL Lyonnes both competed in the UEFA Women’s Champions League Final on May 23, but fell to Barcelona, 4-0. They did win two trophies so far this season, helping Lyonnes win the French Cup to open the month of May, 4-1, over Paris Saint-Germain (a match which featured a goal from Heaps) and also won the Coupe LFFP, 1-0, over PSG in mid-March. Lyonnes will play in the Division 1 Féminine Final vs. Paris FC on Friday, May 29. It will be the final match for Heaps in France before she joins Denver Summit FC and a chance to lift a third trophy this season.
- The average age of this 26-player training camp roster 25.1
- The average caps per player heading into the first match against Brazil is 33.4. Four less than the average caps heading into the April camp vs. Japan (37.4).
- The roster once again features the sister duo of Alyssa and Gisele Thompson. 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.
- Hayes gave 32 players first caps in her first 32 matches at the helm. On Dec. 1, 2025, Kate Wiesner became the 50th different player to start a match under Emma Hayes in her then 32 matches as USWNT head coach.
- Hayes has now given caps to 60 different players. Of those 60 players, 56 have started a match.
- No other fulltime USWNT 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.
- So far in 2026, Hayes has given caps to 40 different players.
- The three goalkeepers in camp have a total of 22 career caps. Claudia Dickey of the Seattle Reign has 10. Tullis-Joyce has seven while Mandy McGlynn has five.
- There is just one teenager on the roster in Lily Yohannes, who turns 19 on June 12.
- Sonnett (32) is the oldest player on the roster (Heaps just turned 32 as well) while Yohannes is the youngest. Yohannes was eight years old and still living in the United States (two years before her family’s move 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.
- The match vs. Brazil on June 6 in São Paulo will be the second of a broadcast doubleheader that will also feature the U.S. Men's National Team in the Coca-Cola Send-Off Match against Germany from Chicago’s Soldier Field. This will be the USMNT’s final match before the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
- The matches will mark the first games for the U.S. Women against Brazil in Brazil since 2014 and will serve as valuable preparation experience should the USWNT qualify for the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup this coming fall at the 2026 Concacaf W Championship.
- The USWNT has played Brazil 43 times in its history, but just six of those matches have taken place in Brazil: two in 1996, two in 1997, and most recently two in 2014. The USA is 2W-2L-2D all-time against Brazil in Brazil, long one of the most difficult places to play in women’s international soccer.
- Both Neo Química Arena (which will be called Arena Itaquera during the World Cup) and Arena Castelão will host matches in the 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Matches will also take place in Belo Horizonte (Estádio Mineirão), Brasília (Estádio Nacional), Porto Alegre (Estádio Beira-Rio), Recife (Arena de Pernambuco), Rio de Janeiro (Estádio do Maracanã) and Salvador (Arena Fonte Nova). The 2027 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final Draw will take place in Brazil in December of 2026.
