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 available for viewing and download. The Media Guides features all the history and statistics for the USWNT, as well as full bios for the technical staff and career highlights for top players in the pool. It also includes information on the USA’s Youth Women’s National Teams and general important information 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 less than half the average caps of the previous match’s Starting XI on April 11 in San Jose.
- Emma Hayes has made a bit more program history by entirely changing her Starting XI from the last match. This is fourth time in her tenure in which she has done that but only the ninth time overall in program history that a coach has swapped out their entire starting lineup in consecutive matches.
- She first swapped the full Starting XI between the first two matches of the 2025 SheBelieves Cup. After the U.S. won 2-0 over Colombia in the SheBelieves opener on Feb. 20, a completely different Starting XI started the 2-1 win over Australia. Hayes also switched out the entire Starting XI between the two matches against Ireland in June of 2025. The U.S. won both matches, 4-0. Most recently, she changed out the entire Starting XI between the two January Camp matches against Paraguay and Chile. The U.S. won those matches 6-0 and 5-0, respectively.
- This match marks just the ninth occasion in 777 all-time matches that the USWNT’s starting lineup featured 11 changes in consecutive outings and it’s just the fourth time – all under Hayes – that it has occurred during the same event/camp that didn’t include a closed-door friendly.
- Emily Sonnett is the most experienced player on this lineup. She enters the match with 115 caps while the rest of the roster combines for 148 caps. The next-most experienced player on the roster is Jaedyn Shaw who enters the match with 34 caps. Of the players in the starting lineup, only 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 first time in almost nine years. The match will take place at Lumen Field, the home of Seattle Reign FC and Seattle Sounders FC. The last time the U.S. played in Seattle was July 27, 2017, at CenturyLink Field (now Lumen Field) to open the inaugural Tournament of Nations, losing 1-0 to Australia. This time, Lumen Field is ready to rock with a crowd that will set the record for largest for a standalone women’s soccer match in Seattle. The previous record was 34,130 for Megan Rapinoe’s farewell game. The match will have an added twist as it will be the first for the USA on grass at Lumen Field, with a new pitch having been laid down in preparation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup matches.
- This will be the third match the USWNT has played at Lumen Field as the USA draw Brazil, 1-1, in Oct. of 2015, meaning that Lumen Field is one of the few soccer venues in the USA where the USA has not won a game. In 2002, the USWNT played two matches at what was then SAFECO Field, putting together big 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 before moving to the USA on short notice due to the SARS epidemic). The USA did play a match in Tacoma, Washington, in 1995, a physical affair against Brazil that was played on a very small field at Franklin Pierce High School. The USA won, 3-0.
- Seattle played an important role in the early history of the U.S. Women’s National Team. The first-ever USWNT in 1985 featured Seattle-based head coach, Mike Ryan, and more than half the roster (at least eight of the 17 players) hailed from the Seattle area, including the legendary Michelle Akers, making the region one of the ancestral homes of the USWNT.
STARTING XI NOTES:
Phallon Tullis-Joyce, 29, earns her seventh cap and start for the USWNT. Her first camp back in the WNT since last fall was at the 2026 SheBelieves Cup. She earned two clean sheets in the two matches she played, one against Canada and one against Colombia, both 1-0 wins.
Avery Patterson, 23, earns her 11th cap and eighth start. Patterson also started her most recent appearance and played a full 90 in the USA’s 1-0 SheBelieves Cup-sealing win over Colombia on March 7.
Lilly Reale, 22, earns her eighth cap and seventh start. The natural left footer most recently played for the U.S. against Argentina in the first SheBelieves Cup match of 2026. That was Reale’s only match of the year thus far after not being available for selection during January Camp due to commitments to Gotham FC and then suffered an injury in that first SheBelieves Cup contest.
Emily Sams, 26, earns her 10th cap and sixth start. Her last start came in her most recent cap on Jan. 27 vs. Chile. In that match, Sams wore the captain’s arm band for the first time, scored her first international goal and earned her first international assist.
Lily Yohannes, 18, earns her 16th cap and eighth start. Yohannes is the youngest player on the roster and the lone teenager in this camp.
Jaedyn Shaw, 21, earns her 35th cap and 15th start. In her most recent start for the U.S., Jaedyn Shaw scored her 10th international goal, becoming the fifth youngest player to do so.
Ally Sentnor, 22, earns her 20th cap and tenth start. She leads the USWNT in scoring thus far this year with three goals. She scored a brace against Paraguay on Jan. 24 and scored the lone goal in the 1-0 SheBelieves Cup win over Canada.
Olivia Moultrie, 20, earns her 16th cap and eighth start. The midfielder scored the first goal of the NWSL season when Portland Thorns FC defeated the Washington Spirit to kick-off the 2026 campaign.
Emily Sonnett, 32, earns her 116th cap and 63rd start. Sonnett’s last match for the U.S. was the final 2026 SheBelieves Cup match. She has competed in all 11 SheBelieves Cup and in doing so, holds the record for the individual with the most SheBelieves Cup tournament wins with eight (the same number as the U.S. program holds).
Claire Hutton, 20, earns her 16th cap and 12th start. On April 11, she subbed on in the first match against Japan in the 85th minute, replacing Lindsey Heaps in the midfield. This is the first USWNT match of Hutton’s career in which she will wear the captain’s armband from the beginning of the match. Hutton is the USA’s youngest captain in the modern era of the USWNT.
Emma Sears, 25, earns her 19th cap and ninth start. The Racing Louisville forward is tied with Trinity Rodman and Lindsey Heaps for second most goals (2) on the WNT in 2026.
