USWNT vs. JAPAN
Date: April 14, Seattle, Wash.
Broadcast: TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English and in Spanish on Universo and Peacock
Radio: Westwood One in English
Official Kickoff Time: 7:07 p.m. PT
The 2026 USWNT Media Guide is now out there for viewing and obtain. The Media Guides options all of the historical past and statistics for the USWNT, in addition to full bios for the technical employees and profession highlights for prime gamers within the pool. It additionally consists of data on the USA’s Youth Women’s National Teams and normal vital data on U.S. Soccer.
USA STARTING XI: 24-Phallon Tullis-Joyce, 3-Avery Patterson, 5-Lilly Reale, 6-Emily Sams, 7-Lily Yohannes, 8-Jaedyn Shaw, 9-Ally Sentnor, 13-Olivia Moultrie, 14-Emily Sonnett, 15-Claire Hutton (Capt.), 19-Emma Sears
Available Subs: 1-Claudia Dickey, 2-Trinity Rodman, 4-Naomi Girma, 10-Lindsey Heaps, 11-Sophia Wilson, 12-Tierna Davidson, 16-Rose Lavelle, 17-Sam Coffey, 20-Michelle Cooper, 22-Gisele Thompson, 23-Emily Fox, 26-Jameese Joseph
Not dressing: 18-Jane Campbell, 21-Alyssa Thompson, 25-Kennedy Wesley
USWNT Starting XI Cap Numbers (Including this match): Tullis-Joyce (7), Patterson (11), Reale (8), Sams (10), Yohannes (16), Shaw (35), Sentnor (20), Moultrie (16), Sonnett (116), Hutton (16), Sears (19)
Notes:
- Tonight’s Starting XI averages 23.9 caps heading into the match. This is lower than half the common caps of the earlier match’s Starting XI on April 11 in San Jose.
- Emma Hayes has made a bit extra program historical past by solely altering her Starting XI from the final match. This is fourth time in her tenure by which she has finished that however solely the ninth time total in program historical past {that a} coach has swapped out their complete beginning lineup in consecutive matches.
- She first swapped the total Starting XI between the primary two matches of the 2025 SheBelieves Cup. After the U.S. received 2-0 over Colombia within the SheBelieves opener on Feb. 20, a very totally different Starting XI began the 2-1 win over Australia. Hayes additionally switched out your entire Starting XI between the 2 matches in opposition to Ireland in June of 2025. The U.S. received each matches, 4-0. Most lately, she modified out your entire Starting XI between the 2 January Camp matches in opposition to Paraguay and Chile. The U.S. received these matches 6-0 and 5-0, respectively.
- This match marks simply the ninth event in 777 all-time matches that the USWNT’s beginning lineup featured 11 modifications in consecutive outings and it’s simply the fourth time – all beneath Hayes – that it has occurred throughout the identical occasion/camp that didn’t embrace a closed-door pleasant.
- Emily Sonnett is probably the most skilled participant on this lineup. She enters the match with 115 caps whereas the remainder of the roster combines for 148 caps. The next-most skilled participant on the roster is Jaedyn Shaw who enters the match with 34 caps. Of the gamers within the beginning lineup, solely Sonnett has seen on-field minutes in a FIFA Women’s World Cup or an Olympics Games.
- The U.S. returns to Seattle, Wash. for the primary time in virtually 9 years. The match will happen at Lumen Field, the house of Seattle Reign FC and Seattle Sounders FC. The final time the U.S. performed in Seattle was July 27, 2017, at CenturyLink Field (now Lumen Field) to open the inaugural Tournament of Nations, dropping 1-0 to Australia. This time, Lumen Field is able to rock with a crowd that may set the report for largest for a standalone ladies’s soccer match in Seattle. The earlier report was 34,130 for Megan Rapinoe’s farewell sport. The match could have an added twist as will probably be the primary for the USA on grass at Lumen Field, with a brand new pitch having been laid down in preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches.
- This would be the third match the USWNT has performed at Lumen Field because the USA draw Brazil, 1-1, in Oct. of 2015, that means that Lumen Field is without doubt one of the few soccer venues within the USA the place the USA has not received a sport. In 2002, the USWNT performed two matches at what was then SAFECO Field, placing collectively huge wins over Panama (9-0) and Costa Ria (7-0) in qualifying for the 2003 FIFA Women’s World Cup (which was to be held in China PR earlier than shifting to the USA on quick discover because of the SARS epidemic). The USA did play a match in Tacoma, Washington, in 1995, a bodily affair in opposition to Brazil that was performed on a really small area at Franklin Pierce High School. The USA received, 3-0.
- Seattle performed an vital position within the early historical past of the U.S. Women’s National Team. The first-ever USWNT in 1985 featured Seattle-based head coach, Mike Ryan, and greater than half the roster (a minimum of eight of the 17 gamers) hailed from the Seattle space, together with the legendary Michelle Akers, making the area one of many ancestral properties of the USWNT.
STARTING XI NOTES:
Phallon Tullis-Joyce, 29, earns her seventh cap and begin for the USWNT. Her first camp again within the WNT since final fall was on the 2026 SheBelieves Cup. She earned two clear sheets within the two matches she performed, one in opposition to Canada and one in opposition to Colombia, each 1-0 wins.
Avery Patterson, 23, earns her eleventh cap and eighth begin. Patterson additionally began her most up-to-date look and performed a full 90 within the USA’s 1-0 SheBelieves Cup-sealing win over Colombia on March 7.
Lilly Reale, 22, earns her eighth cap and seventh begin. The pure left footer most lately performed for the U.S. in opposition to Argentina within the first SheBelieves Cup match of 2026. That was Reale’s solely match of the yr so far after not being out there for choice throughout January Camp as a result of commitments to Gotham FC after which suffered an damage in that first SheBelieves Cup contest.
Emily Sams, 26, earns her tenth cap and sixth begin. Her final begin got here in her most up-to-date cap on Jan. 27 vs. Chile. In that match, Sams wore the captain’s arm band for the primary time, scored her first worldwide purpose and earned her first worldwide help.
Lily Yohannes, 18, earns her sixteenth cap and eighth begin. Yohannes is the youngest participant on the roster and the lone teenager on this camp.
Jaedyn Shaw, 21, earns her thirty fifth cap and fifteenth begin. In her most up-to-date begin for the U.S., Jaedyn Shaw scored her tenth worldwide purpose, turning into the fifth youngest participant to take action.
Ally Sentnor, 22, earns her twentieth cap and tenth begin. She leads the USWNT in scoring so far this yr with three targets. She scored a brace in opposition to Paraguay on Jan. 24 and scored the lone purpose within the 1-0 SheBelieves Cup win over Canada.
Olivia Moultrie, 20, earns her sixteenth cap and eighth begin. The midfielder scored the primary purpose of the NWSL season when Portland Thorns FC defeated the Washington Spirit to kick-off the 2026 marketing campaign.
Emily Sonnett, 32, earns her 116th cap and 63rd begin. Sonnett’s final match for the U.S. was the ultimate 2026 SheBelieves Cup match. She has competed in all 11 SheBelieves Cup and in doing so, holds the report for the person with probably the most SheBelieves Cup match wins with eight (the identical quantity because the U.S. program holds).
Claire Hutton, 20, earns her sixteenth cap and twelfth begin. On April 11, she subbed on within the first match in opposition to Japan within the eighty fifth minute, changing Lindsey Heaps within the midfield. This is the primary USWNT match of Hutton’s profession by which she’s going to put on the captain’s armband from the start of the match. Hutton is the USA’s youngest captain within the trendy period of the USWNT.
Emma Sears, 25, earns her nineteenth cap and ninth begin. The Racing Louisville ahead is tied with Trinity Rodman and Lindsey Heaps for second most targets (2) on the WNT in 2026.
