USWNT vs. JAPAN
Date: April 17, 2026
Venue: DICK’s Wearing Items Park, Trade Town, Colo.
Broadcast: TNT, truTV and HBO Max in English and in Spanish on Universo and Peacock
Radio: Westwood One in English
Respectable Kickoff Time: 7:07 p.m. MT
USA: 1-Claudia Dickey, 2-Trinity Rodman, 4-Naomi Girma, 10-Lindsey Tons, 11-Sophia Wilson, 12-Tierna Davidson, 15-Claire Hutton, 16-Rose Lavelle, 21-Alyssa Thompson, 22-Gisele Thompson, 23-Emily Fox
To be had Subs: 3-Avery Patterson, 5-Lilly Reale, 6-Emily Sams, 7-Lily Yohannes, 8-Jaedyn Shaw, 9-Best friend Sentnor, 13-Olivia Moultrie, 17-Sam Coffey, 19-Emma Sears, 20-Michelle Cooper, 24-Phallon Tullis-Joyce, 25-Kennedy Wesley
No longer dressing: 14-Emily Sonnett, 18-Jane Campbell
USWNT Beginning XI Cap Numbers (Together with this fit): Tons (176), Lavelle (120), Fox (76), Davidson (69), Wilson (61), Rodman (55), Girma (54), A. Thomspon (31), Hutton (17), Dickey (10), G. Thompson (10)
Notes:
- This night’s Beginning XI averages 60.7 caps heading into the fit.
- Emma Hayes has made ten adjustments to the Beginning XI from the final fit April 14 with Claire Hutton because the lone participant to begin two video games in a row. Then again, this Beginning XI has best two adjustments from the Beginning XI at the April 11 within the first recreation towards Japan. From the primary fit, Tierna Davidson has changed Kennedy Wesley at the again line and Claire Hutton has stepped in for Sam Coffey within the midfield.
- 8 of the starters have FIFA Ladies’s Global Cup and/or Olympic enjoy: Lindsey Tons, Rose Lavelle, Emily Fox, Naomi Girma, Trinity Rodman, Sophia Wilson, Tierna Davidson and Alyssa Thompson.
- The Thompson sisters are the 3rd pair of sisters to constitute the US. The primary time Gisele and her older sister Alyssa have been referred to as in in combination used to be the 2025 SheBelieves Cup, they usually become the primary pair of sisters to come back to camp from the similar skilled membership (Angel Town FC). The primary example of sisters at the identical USWNT roster used to be within the overdue Nineties when twins Lorrie and Ronnie Honest have been referred to as up in combination. Extra lately, Samantha and Kristie Mewis have been at the 2021 Olympic Staff in combination.
- The Thompson sisters grasp the document for many USWNT suits began in combination by way of sisters as they are going to proportion the similar Beginning XI for the 5th time. This would be the 7th all-time WNT fit they have got performed in combination. The latest twin get started for the Thompson sisters used to be on April 11 vs. Japan. The Mewis sisters grasp the document for many USWNT suits performed in combination by way of sisters with 12.
- Colorado is the house state of ahead Sophia Wilson and midfielder Lindsey Tons. Wilson hails from Windsor simply an hour from Trade Town and Denver correct whilst Golden, a suburb of Denver is Tons’ native land.
- The U.S. final performed in Colorado on June 26, 2025, towards Eire and gained the fit 4-0, however neither Wilson nor Tons have been at the roster. Wilson used to be pregnant and USWNT head trainer Emma Hayes had given the Ecu avid gamers, together with Tons, the summer season FIFA window off to leisure and recharge after an extended Ecu season.
- The final time Wilson and Tons performed in Colorado used to be on June 1, 2024, vs. Korea Republic. The U.S. additionally gained that fit 4-0, which used to be additionally Emma Hayes’ first fit as head trainer of the USWNT and the fourth-to-last fit sooner than of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
- Come July, Tons will play in her house state a lot more regularly because the midfielder joins NWSL growth aspect the Denver Summit for the second one part in their inaugural season as soon as her ultimate French Première league season with OL Lyonnes ends and her 2025-2026 UEFA Ladies’s Champions League destiny has been determined.
- Together with her cap lately, Tons ties Shannon MacMillan for 18th maximum caps in USWNT historical past with 176, making her one among best 19 ladies to achieve that mark.
STARTING XI NOTES:
Lindsey Tons, 31, earns her 176th cap, 136th get started and it is going to be her forty third recreation captaining the U.S. She recently has 40 profession targets, excellent for sixteenth all-time in U.S. historical past. The OL Lyonnes midfielder will end out the season with the French aspect sooner than returning to the NWSL in her house state to play for growth aspect Denver Summit FC.
Rose Lavelle, 30, earns her 120h cap and a hundred and first get started. She ties Lorrie Honest for thirty fifth maximum caps ever with 120. Lavelle used to be the thirty first participant to achieve 100 begins for the USWNT – doing so on April 11 vs. Japan – and is tied for 14th quickest participant to hit that mark with Abby Wambach. The quickest avid gamers to achieve 100 begins have been Julie Foudy and Pleasure Fawcett who each did so in 101 caps.
Emily Fox, 27, earns her 76th cap and sixty fourth get started. The Arsenal FC proper again performed the general 210 mins of the 2026 SheBelieves Cup, taking part in her first two complete 90-minute global suits since October of 2025.
Tierna Davidson, 27, earns her 69th cap and 53rd get started. Davidson makes her first get started since Feb. 23, 2025, a 2-1 win over Australia. She performed a complete 90 mins in that fit. That is Davidson’s 2d look and primary get started since returning to the roster on this camp. She had now not performed in a world fit for the reason that ultimate SheBelieves Cup fit of 2025 vs. Japan on Feb. 26.
Sophia Wilson, 25, earns her 61st cap and forty second get started as she returns to the USWNT after giving delivery to her daughter. Wilson passes Casey Krueger to tie Leslie Osborne for sixtieth maximum caps in WNT historical past. Wilson’s most up-to-date fit sooner than this window for the U.S. used to be on Oct. 27, 2024, vs. Iceland, her most up-to-date objective used to be on Oct. 24, 2024, additionally vs. Iceland. Wilson is the 18th mom to play for the USWNT. Will have to Wilson rating she would change into the 9th girl to attain as a mom. Avid gamers who’ve scored as a mother are Alex Morgan (with 16 targets as a mother), Pleasure Fawcett (13 targets), Danielle Fotopoulos (5), Amy Rodriguez (4), Jessica McDonald (2), Kate Markgraf (1), Kristine Lilly (1) and Tina Ellertson (1). With a objective towards Brazil on Feb. 22, 2023, Morgan moved previous Fawcett to change into the best-ever chief in U.S. targets as a mother with 14 and ended her profession with 16 targets as a mother.
Naomi Girma, 25, that is Girma’s 54th cap and 52nd get started for the U.S. and he or she used to be the seventieth participant to earn 50 caps, doing so on Dec. 1 vs. Italy. Girma begins the fit along fellow former Stanford heart again Tierna Davidson.
Trinity Rodman, 23, earns her fifty fifth cap and makes her thirty fourth get started. Rodman earned her fiftieth cap on March 1 vs. Argentina. Rodman is the twenty second quickest participant to make it to 50 caps and the 71st to take action general.
Alyssa Thompson, 21, earns her thirty first cap and 18th get started. She and her sister Gisele prolong their document for sisters beginning in the similar USWNT fit. Samantha and Kristie Mewis began in the similar fit thrice, and the Thompsons have now performed so 5 instances. Alyssa used to be named the London Soccer Awards Ladies’s Younger Participant of the Yr on the finish of 2025.
Claudia Dickey, 26, earns her tenth cap and tenth get started. She has earned seven shutouts and 9 wins throughout her 9 caps to this point for the USWNT.
Gisele Thompson, 20, earns her tenth cap and 7th get started. She made her debut in final yr’s SheBelieves Cup, incomes her first cap vs. Colombia on Feb. 20, 2025, and incomes her first get started vs. Australia on Feb. 23, 2025. She earned her first lend a hand on this yr’s fit vs. Paraguay on Jan. 24. That is the (document) 5th time she and her sister Alyssa Thompson will get started a USWNT fit in combination and 7th time they’ll play in the similar USWNT recreation. They have got surpassed the Mewis sisters in shared begins (5) however are 5 video games wanting tying the Mewis sisters for many USWNT video games performed in combination (12).
Claire Hutton, 20, earns her 18th cap and makes her 14th get started. On April 11, she subbed on within the first fit towards Japan within the eighty fifth minute, changing Lindsey Tons within the midfield. She began on April 14 and captained the workforce, making her the youngest captain to begin a recreation with the armband since 2001. She is the one participant to begin the April 14 recreation who additionally will get the beginning this night.