The U.S. women’s national soccer team will play its first match since winning the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Aug. 10.
In all, the USWNT will play three friendlies to close out the month of October, including two against Iceland, with the first taking place on Thursday night in Austin, Texas. The team also will play Argentina.
USWNT coach Emma Hayes called in 18 members of the Olympic team for her 26-player roster for these friendly matches. Hayes also called in six uncapped players who will be looking to make their USWNT debuts: defenders Eva Gaetino, Alyssa Malonson and Emily Sams, midfielder Hal Hershfelt and forwards Yazmeen Ryan and Emma Sears.
Thursday’s match will be the 16th time that the USWNT has faced Iceland, having compiled a record of 13 wins, 2 draws and no losses vs. Iceland. The most recent encounter came in the final of the 2022 SheBelieves Cup, won the the U.S., 5-0 .
Following Thursday’s match, the U.S. will play Iceland on Sunday, Oct. 27 at GEODIS Park in Nashville, Tennessee, before playing Argentina on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky.