United States women's national soccer team

The United States Women's National Soccer Team (often called "The WNT") is operated by the United States Soccer Federation. It is the world's first women's soccer (football) team made up of full-time professionals and is also one of the most successful teams (women's or men's) in history. The WNT has won two Women's World Cups (1991 and 1999); two Olympic Women's Tournaments (1996 and 2004) and four Algarve Cups (2000, 2003, 2004, 2005). The United States U-19 women's national soccer team side also won the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship in 2002.

The WNT played its first match on August 19, 1985, coached by Mike Ryan (no relationship to current coach Greg Ryan). In March 2004, two of its stars, Mia Hamm (who retired later that year after a post-Olympic team tour of the USA) and Michelle Akers (who had already retired), were the only two women named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living footballers chosen by Pelé as part of FIFA's centenary observances.

Competition record

World Cup record

1991 - Champions
1995 - Third place
1999 - Champions
2003 - Third place

Olympic record

1996 - Gold
2000 - Silver
2004 - Gold

''Women's Olympic teams are effectively the same national teams that compete for the World Cup, featuring players of any age. Men's is restricted to Under-23.

Algarve Cup

2000
2003
2004
2005

Four Nations Tournament

CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup

Team development

The US WNT draws its players from several sources, including the United States U-20 women's national soccer team, the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL) and the semi-professional W-League. As of 2006, there is no full-time, paid (professional) women's soccer league in the United States.

Current Roster

Famous players

The WNT boasts all five players in the history of the game to have earned 200 caps (international appearances). In descending order of number of caps, they are: