After his U.S. women’s national team side was eliminated from the 2023 World Cup, Vlatko Andonovski was already looking ahead to the next one.
“These are players that will be here for years to come, for tournaments to come,” Andonovski said on Fox Sports, referring to some of his team’s young stars. “This tournament is a great experience for them, and I think they’ll dominate the next one together.”
Though Andonovski likely won’t be there in four years (or even next summer at the Olympics), several of the USWNT’s top players at the 2023 World Cup will return for the 2027 edition.
Predicting World Cup starters four years in advance is obviously tricky. Who would have seen the emergence of someone like Alyssa Thompson coming in 2019, when she was 14 years old? Even players like Naomi Girma and Sophia Smith, established U.S. youth internationals four years ago, were still just teenagers at Stanford back then.
Still, we’ll do our best to project who may start at the 2027 World Cup, which could be played on home soil.
Players are listed along with their age in 2027.