The USWNT closes out its 2025 schedule with two matches against 2025 UEFA Women’s Euro semifinalists Italy over the Thanksgiving holiday. The first match will be played on Friday, Nov. 28 at Inter & Co Stadium in Orlando and will be presented by The Home Depot (7 p.m. ET on TNT and HBO Max in English, Universo and Peacock in Spanish and on the radio on the Westwood One Sports) before the teams travel south to meet again on Monday, Dec. 1 at Chase Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale (7 p.m. ET on TBS and HBO Max in English, Peacock in Spanish and on the radio in English on Westwood One Sports and in Spanish on Fútbol de Primera). These matches are the first against Le Azzurre in 15 years and the Orlando match will be almost 15 years to the day since the most recent meeting, which was on Nov. 27, 2010, a 1-0 win in Bridgeview, Ill., the second leg of the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup playoff series. The USA defeated Italy 2-0 on aggregate to advance. The USWNT has a 10W-3L-0D record in 2025 and leads Italy 10W-4L-1D across 15 matches in the all-time series between the two countries.
U.S. Women’s National Team Roster by Position (Club; Caps/Goals)
November Matches vs. Italy
GOALKEEPERS (3): Claudia Dickey (Seattle Reign FC; 4), Mandy McGlynn (Utah Royals; 4), Jordan Silkowitz (Bay FC; 0)
DEFENDERS (10): Jordyn Bugg (Seattle Reign FC; 4/0), Emily Fox (Arsenal FC, ENG; 69/1), Naomi Girma (Chelsea FC, ENG: 48/2), Avery Patterson (Houston Dash; 8/1), Lilly Reale (Gotham FC; 4/0), Izzy Rodriguez (Kansas City Current; 1/1), Emily Sams (Orlando Pride; 6/0), Emily Sonnett (Gotham FC; 112/2), Kennedy Wesley (San Diego Wave; 1/0), Kate Wiesner (Washington Spirit; 0/0)
MIDFIELDERS (7): Croix Bethune (Washington Spirit; 4/0), Sam Coffey (Portland Thorns FC; 41/5), Lindsey Heaps (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 167/38), Jaelin Howell (Gotham FC; 5/1), Claire Hutton (Kansas City Current; 9/1), Rose Lavelle (Gotham FC; 115/26), Lily Yohannes (OL Lyonnes, FRA; 11/1)
FORWARDS (6): Jameese Joseph (Chicago Stars; 0/0), Catarina Macario (Chelsea FC, ENG; 27/13), Olivia Moultrie (Portland Thorns FC; 10/4), Emma Sears (Racing Louisville; 11/4), Jaedyn Shaw (Gotham FC; 29/8), Alyssa Thompson (Chelsea FC, ENG; 24/3)
25 DEBUTS IN 28 GAMES: Two years from her appointment as U.S. head coach, Emma Hayes has given 25 players their international debuts. In matches when at least one player debuted under Hayes, the U.S. is 16W-0L-1D, including Hayes’ first three matches at the helm, where three players made their debuts and the USWNT, which were all wins. In this summer’s FIFA window, Emma Hayes gave five players their first caps – goalkeeper Claudia Dickey, defenders Jordyn Bugg, Lilly Reale and Izzy Rodriguez and midfielder Sam Meza. 113 days later, the October window saw only one debutante in San Diego Wave defender Kennedy Wesley. It was also Wesley’s first call-up to the WNT roster. All but Rodriguez and Meza are back on this roster, which features just one first-time call-up in Jameese Joseph. The Chicago Stars forward is the eighth player from the 2025 Futures Camp – also held in Florida – to see time with the USWNT this year. She’s joined in this camp by Jordan Silkowitz and Kate Wiesner as the roster’s three uncapped players, bringing up the potential for Emma Hayes to field 28 debutantes in her 30 games at the helm of the USWNT. The 25 debuts in 28 matches, including Wesley, gives Hayes a remarkable ratio. Hayes has given 29 players their first USWNT call-ups, but she also gave a first cap to a player who did not get a first call-up under her, as Lily Yohannes earned her first call-up under former interim head coach Twila Kilgore but did not see action in any matches. The 25 players who have earned their first caps under Emma Hayes are: Sam Staab, Lily Yohannes, Croix Bethune, Yazmeen Ryan, Hal Hershfelt, Emily Sams, Emma Sears, Mandy McGlynn, Alyssa Malonson, Eva Gaetino, Ally Sentnor, Tara McKeown, Michelle Cooper, Gisele Thompson, Claire Hutton, Phallon Tullis-Joyce, Avery Patterson, Lo'eau LaBonta, Kerry Abello, Claudia Dickey, Lilly Reale, Jordyn Bugg, Sam Meza, Izzy Rodriguez and Kennedy Wesley.
SHORT TRIP FOR SAMS: U.S. defender Emily Sams, who starred at Florida State, has a short trip into this training camp as the outside back/center back will get the chance to compete for minutes at her club’s home stadium. Sams was a key part of the Orlando Pride team that won the 2024 NWSL Championship and made a return trip to the semifinals this year. She'll be looking to add to her six caps at Inter&Co Stadium against Italy.
FLORIDA CONNECTIONS: Along with Sams, three other players on this roster have strong Florida connections. Goalkeeper Mandy McGlynn and forward Avery Patterson both hail from Jacksonville in North Florida while Jaelin Howell was a two-time MAC Hermann Trophy winner at Florida State in 2020 and 2021. She was the seventh female player to twice be named college soccer’s top player along with Mia Hamm (1992, 1993 at UNC), U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow (1997, 1998 at UNC), Christine Sinclair (2004, 2005 at Portland), Kerri Hanks (2006, 2008 at Notre Dame), Morgan Brian (2013, 2014 at Virginia) and fellow call-up for this roster, Catarina Macario (2018, 2019 at Stanford).
THE EMMA FILE: USWNT head coach Emma Hayes has compiled a record of 23W-3L-2D through her first 28 matches at the helm of the USWNT. At the start of her tenure, she guided the USA to five consecutive shutouts before seeing that streak end against Germany in the group stage of the Olympics. It was the second-longest shutout streak to open the career of any full-time USWNT head coach, trailing only the nine consecutive shutouts that opened the Greg Ryan era. Ater the 3-0 opening game win over Zambia at the Olympics, Hayes became the first USWNT head coach to win their first major tournament match by a margin of three or more goals and joined Anson Dorrance as the only head coaches in USWNT history to win their first six matches at a major tournament. Dorrance won all six games with the USWNT at the 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Hayes joins three other USWNT head coaches of the last eight coaches in USWNT history who won their first major competition (Anson Dorrance – 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup, Pia Sundhage – 2008 Olympics, Jill Ellis – 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup). The gold medal victory in Paris came in Hayes’ 10th match at the helm of the USWNT, the fewest matches before winning a World Cup or Olympics by any head coach in women’s soccer history. Hayes picked up her first world honor as head coach of the U.S. Women’s National Team when she won the Ballon d’Or as the 2024 Women’s Soccer Coach of the Year. France Football, the top soccer magazine in France and one of the most reputable in Europe, has been awarding the Ballon d’Or to men’s players since 1956 and women’s players since 2018, but 2024 was the first year it has given out awards to coaches of men’s and women’s soccer. Hayes then won The 2024 Best FIFA Women’s Coach award. Hayes won that award first in 2021 and finished second to England head coach Sarina Wiegman in 2023.
SERIES HISTORY – USA vs. ITALY: This pair of matches will be the first against Le Azzurre in 15 years. Friday’s match in Orlando takes place almost 15 years to the day since the teams’ most recent meeting, which was on Nov. 27, 2010, a 1-0 victory in Bridgeview, Ill. in the second leg of the Women’s World Cup playoff series. In 2010, the USA defeated Italy, 2-0, on aggregate to advance to the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup. The U.S. would win the World Cup that year, the program’s third world title and second of three in a row.
Of the 15 all-time meetings, seven came before the turn of the century and four more from 2000-2003. In a fun historical note, the matches to end the USA’s 40th year of competition will be against the opponent who started the first. Italy, currently ranked 12th in the world, was the opponent for the first international match in USWNT history in 1985, a 1-0 victory for the Italians. Since then, the USA and Italy have not met often, just 15 times over the past 40 years. The U.S. leads the overall record between the two teams 10W-4L-1D. These matches will be the last matches of 2025 for both programs.
USWNT TEAM & ROSTER NOTES
- Since the start of 2020, the USWNT has played 72 matches in the United States and 32 outside the country. The USA is 62W-5L-6D in domestic matches and has outscored the opposition 225-25 (+200) at home. Outside the United States, the USWNT is 20W-4L-8D with a 62-20 goal margin (+42).
- Since its inception in 1985, the USWNT has compiled a record of 603 wins, 75 losses and 91 ties. Over the history of the program, the USA has gone 357W-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 199 matches with a 162W-14L-23D record.
- Thirty-four of the USA’s 50 goals in 2024 (68%) were scored or assisted by a player under 25.
- In 2025, of the USA’s combined 36 goals and 23 assists this year, 51% involved a player under 25.
- Goals scored by players under 25:
- 4 by 21-year-old Ally Sentnor, 3 by 24-year-old Emma Sears, 2 by 20-year-olds Alyssa Thompson and Olivia Moultrie, 1 by 22-year-olds Michelle Cooper and Trinity Rodman, 1 by 23-year-old Avery Patterson, 1 by 19-year-old Claire Hutton
- Assists by players under 25:
- 3 from Sentnor and Cooper, 2 from Thompson and 21-year-old Jaedyn Shaw, 1 from Sears, Moultrie, Hutton, 21-year-old Lilly Reale and 23-year-old Avery Patterson
- Lindsey Heaps and Rose Lavelle are the leading scorers on this roster with 38 and 27 career goals, respectively (also the most capped: 160, 115). Catarina Macario (13) and Jadeyn Shaw (8) have the next most international goals. No one else has more than five, which is the career total for Sam Coffey.
- So far, 14 players have made their USWNT debuts in 2025. 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. With Silkowitz, Joseph and Wiesner looking for their debuts and two matches left, the most debuts in a year record could fall.
- Six players on the roster are playing their professional club soccer in Europe, four in England and two in France. All are currently playing in the UEFA Women’s Champions League with Lindsey Heaps and Lily Yohannes of OL Lyonnes in second place in the league phase format; Catarina Macario, Girma and Thompson’s Chelsea FC in sixth place and Emily Fox’s Arsenal FC in tenth. The top twelve teams advance to the knockout rounds.
- Chelsea's Alyssa Thompson, Catarina Macario and Naomi Girma are the first trio of USWNT players to start for a team in the UWCL since Sam Mewis, Rose Lavelle and Abby Dahlkemper for Manchester City in March 2021.
- 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.
- Gotham FC – the club with the most representation on this roster – took home the 2025 NWSL Championship behind a Rose Lavelle goal which earned the midfielder Championship MVP
- There are 10 players on the roster who have senior world championship experience, led by Heaps (two World Cups and three Olympics), Lavelle (two World Cups and two Olympics) and Sonnett (two World Cups and two Olympics), but four of those 10, Emily Sams, Jaedyn Shaw, Alyssa Thompson and Cat Macario barely played or did not play on their Olympic or World Cup teams. Naomi Girma, Sam Coffey and Emily Fox are the others, all of whom played major roles in the 2024 Olympic gold medal run.
- Gotham FC leads the NWSL clubs in call-ups with five. The Washington Spirit, Seattle Reign and Portland Thorns are next with two each. Twelve different NWSL clubs are represented on this roster.
- There are three teenagers in training camp in Lily Yohannes (who at 18 years and three months old is the youngest player on the roster), Jordyn Bugg and Claire Hutton, who are both 19. Olivia Moultrie turned 20 on Sept. 17. The oldest player is Emily Sonnett, who turns 32 on November 25.
- On Oct. 26 vs. Portugal, Moultrie buried her second international brace. The first brace came on Feb. 20, 2024, vs. Dominican Republic. The 20-year-old has four international goals, all of them scored by brace. That same camp, 24-year-old Emma Sears buried her first international hat trick on Oct. 29 vs. New Zealand to bring her total USWNT goals to four as well.
- The average age of this roster is 24.8. The average age for the roster for the October matches was 24.6 and the roster for the summer matches against Ireland and Canada in June/July averaged 24.5.
- This camp’s roster averages 27.5 caps per player heading into the first match. The roster for the October matches averaged 27.3 caps per player.
- So far this year, 73 of the 143 (51.0%) starting spots for the USWNT have gone to players making one of their first 10 USWNT appearances. The only years in team history that more than half of all starts went to players in their first 10 appearances were 2001 (61/110 – 55.5%), 1992 (17/22 – 77.3%), 1987 (92/121 – 76.0%), 1986 (66/66 – 100%) and 1985 (44/44 – 100%).
- Thirty-seven different players have started a match for the USWNT in 2025, the third most in a single calendar year in team history (38 in 2000, 41 in 2001). That includes 25 different players who were 25 years old or younger at the time of at least one of their starts this year.
- Defender Naomi Girma returns to the roster after missing the last FIFA window due to injury with her last match being the 3-0 win over Canada on July 2. The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2024 Olympic veteran has played in just four matches of the USA's 13 matches in 2025, starting them all.
- The roster also marks the return of Gotham FC midfielder Jaelin Howell to the USWNT. Howell earned her USWNT debut on November 27, 2020, vs. the Netherlands as the sporting world emerged from the global pandemic becoming, along with childhood teammate Sophia Smith (now Wilson), one of the first players born after the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup to earn a USWNT cap.
- Howell last played for the USA on April 9, 2022, vs. Uzbekistan, a match in which she scored her first and thus far only USWNT goal. She was on the roster for the USA's trip to Europe in October of 2022 but did not see action. This is her first call-up since that trip, a span of 37 months between call-ups.
- The seven players who will travel into camp after contesting the 2025 NWSL Championship Game are Lilly Reale, Emily Sonnett, Jaedyn Shaw, Jaelin Howell and Rose Lavelle from Gotham FC and Kate Wiesner and Croix Bethune from the Washington Spirit.
- Fifteen of the 26 players on the training camp roster played for the USA in a FIFA youth World Cup.
- To date, Hayes has coached 28 USWNT matches and given 25 players their first senior team caps.
- Racing Louisville forward Emma Sears is the 2025 NWSL top American goalscorer with 10 goals. Olivia Moultrie had eight NWSL regular season goals for Portland Thorns FC.
- On Oct. 26 vs. Portugal, Moultrie scored her second career brace for the USWNT, scoring in the first and 10th minutes of the 3-1 win.
- On Oct. 29 vs. New Zealand, Sears scored her first career hat trick in the USA's 6-0 win, quadrupling her career USWNT goals. She's the 26th player all-time to score an exact hat trick for the USWNT.
- This is the second consecutive call-up for midfielder Jaedyn Shaw, who returns to the roster after spending two FIFA windows with the U.S. U-23 WNT this year. She has 29 USWNT caps and eight career goals. She scored in her first five USWNT starts, the first USWNT player to achieve that feat.
- This is the second call-up for San Diego Wave defender Kennedy Wesley, who earned her first start and cap in the 6-0 win over New Zealand on Oct. 29 in Kansas City, Mo. She became the 25th player to earn a first cap under Emma Hayes.
- This is also a second senior team call-up for Kansas City Current defender Izzy Rodriguez, who made her USWNT debut during the summer window, and an auspicious debut it was, as she scored against the Republic of Ireland on June 29 to become the 24th player to score in their first USWNT cap.
- The three goalkeepers in camp have a total of eight career caps. Both Mandy McGlynn of the Utah Royals and Seattle Reign FC netminder Claudia Dickey have four each. Dickey started two of the three matches for the USA in the last FIFA window.
- Goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce, who has four USWNT career caps, was ruled out of this camp with a facial injury suffered while playing with Manchester United.
- Six players on the roster are playing their professional club soccer in Europe, four in England and two in France. All are currently playing in the UEFA Women's Champions League with Lindsey Heaps and Lily Yohannes of OL Lyonnes in second place in the league phase format, Catarina Macario, Girma and Alyssa Thompson's Chelsea FC in fourth place and Emily Fox's Arsenal FC in 11th.
- Macario scored twice for Chelsea in its most recent champions league win over St. Polten while Fox scored in Arsenal's loss to Bayern Munich.
- There will be three teenagers in training camp in Yohannes (who at 18 years and five months old is the youngest player in camp), and Jordyn Bugg and Claire Hutton, both 19. Moultrie turned 20 on Sept. 17.
- 20 players on the roster are in their 20s, three in their 30s: Heaps, Lavelle and Sonnett.
- Of the uncapped players:
- Defender Kate Wiesner played for the U.S. at the 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup and helped the USA qualify for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup but was ruled out of that tournament due to injury. She has seen training time with the U.S. U-15s, U-19s and five events with the U-23s. She has played 13 matches for the Washington Spirit this season with one goal.
- Forward Jameese Joseph earned call-ups at the U-14 GNT level, earned two U-20 caps in 2022 and was also in the 2025 Futures Camp, making her the eighth player from that camp to see time with the senior USWNT this year. She was also with the U.S. U-23 WNT this year for its March camp in Los Angeles, its May trip to Germany (but did not see action due to an injury) and its October camp in Philadelphia. She scored four goals for the Chicago Stars this season, good for second on the team.
- This is the second-ever international call-up for Jordan Silkowitz. Her first National Team call-up came this summer when she traveled to Germany with the U.S. U-23s as an overage player and saw action in one match. Formerly of the KC Current, and after a stint with Brisbane Roar in Australia's A-League, she played 24 matches for Bay FC this season, her second in the NWSL.
IN FOCUS: ITALY
FIFA World Ranking: 12
World Cup Appearances: 1991, 1999, 2019, 2023
Best World Cup Finish: Quarterfinals
Record vs. USA: 4W-10L-1D (GF: 8; GA: 27)
Head Coach: Andrea Soncin (ITA)
ITALY WOMEN’S NATIONAL TEAM ROSTER BY POSITION
Goalkeepers (3): Rachele Baldi (Roma), Francesca Durante (Lazio), Laura Giuliani (Milan)
Defenders (10): Valentina Bergamaschi (Roma), Lisa Boattin (Houston Dash, USA), Federica D’Auria (Lazio), Lucia Di Guglielmo (Roma), Martina Lenzini (Juventus), Elena Linari (London City Lionesses, ENG), Beatrice Merlo (Inter Milan), Elisabetta Oliviero (Lazio), Julie Piga (AC Milan), Cecilia Salvai (Juventus)
Midfielders (8): Arianna Caruso (Bayern Munich, GER), Giulia Dragoni (Roma), Manuela Giugliano (Roma), Giada Greggi (Roma), Nadine Nischler (Como), Matilde Pavan (Como), Eva Schatzer (Juventus), Martina Tomaselli (Inter Milan)
Forwards (7): Chiara Beccari (Juventus), Agnese Bonfantini (Fiorentina), Michaela Cambiaghi (Juventus), Sofia Cantore (Washington Spirit, USA), Alice Corelli (Roma), Cristiana Girelli (Juventus), Martina Piemonte (Lazio)
ITALY FAST FACTS
- Italy is currently ranked 12th in the world. The best ranking in program history was 10th from July 2003-Sept. 2006 and again in August 2012.
- In their first FIFA Women’s World Cup appearance, Italy earned a spot in the quarterfinals. The Italians returned to the World Cup in 1999 and then would enter a 20-year drought. When they returned again in 2019, they matched their best performance, making it to the quarterfinals yet again. They played in just their fourth World Cup in 2023 after near misses in qualifying for 2010 and 2014 kept them from making another appearance sooner.
- Le Azzurre first qualified for the UEFA Women’s European Championship in 1984. In 1987, Italy earned third place, defeating England. Since then, they have been in 13 European Championships, with their best results being runners-up in 1993 and 1997.
- In the 2025 Euros, Italy made the semifinals for the first time in 28 years where they fell 2-1 to England despite taking a 1-0 lead into second half stoppage time. England equalized and then scored in overtime to advance to the final. Italy beating Norway 2-1 in the quarterfinals.
- The last time they made the semifinals was in 1997. That year, they were ultimately the tournament’s runners-up to Germany.
- At the Euros, Italy beat Belgium (1-0), drew Portugal (1-1), fell to Spain (3-1), beat Norway (2-1) and then lost to England.
- This year, Italy has a record of 5W-5L-3D across all international play.
- Italy has two NWSL players on this roster in Sofia Cantore of the Washington Spirit and Lisa Boattin of the Houston Dash.
- Cantore helped Washington into the NWSL Championship Game this past weekend. She started and played almost 60 minutes before giving way to Trinity Rodman.
- She started all three of the Spirit’s 2025 playoff matches.
- Transferring from Juventus in June, the forward was productive for the Washington attack, playing in 12 matches and tallying four goals and one assist.
- Cantore led Le Azzurre in assists at the 2025 UEFA Women’s Euros with two.
- Named Serie A Best Forward for the 2024-25 season and was a 2025 Ballon d’Or Nominee
- Boattin played in five Houston matches this season, starting in three of them.
- Boattin was Serie A Footballer of the Year in 2022 and made three consecutive Serie A Women’s Teams of the Year.
- Thirty-five-year-old Cristiana Girelli led Italy in goals in the 2025 Euros. The Juventus forward scored in the group stage draw against Portugal and buried both goals to beat Norway in the quarterfinals.
- Girelli was also a Ballon d'Or nominee in 2025
- She was Serie A’s Most Valuable Player for the 2024-25 season. She also earned a place on the Serie A Women’s Team of the Year for the third time, and she was top scorer in the league with 19 goals in 24 matches.
- Thirty-four-year-old Barbara Bonansea, (not on this roster) scored the lone Italian goal in the semifinal.
- Arianna Caruso made the Serie A Women’s Team of the Year three seasons in a row, from 2020-2023.
- Twenty-four of Italy’s players play domestically in Serie A Femminile. The most represented club is AS Roma with seven players on the roster.
- In their most recent match of 2025, Italy fell 1-0 to Brazil, a team the U.S. has faced twice this year, and tied Japan, 1-1, in the match before that.
- Aside from Girelli, Italy’s top scorer on this roster is Bayern Munich midfielder Ariana Caruso, one of four players on the roster playing club soccer outside her country. She has 16 goals in her 63 caps.
- The only other player besides Girelli with 100+ caps is London City Lioness defender Elna Linari, who has 122, but Roma midfielder Manuela Giugliano is on 96 caps.
