With the 2025 SheBelieves Cup kicking off on Thursday, February 20th, here is a round-up of all four teams’ rosters and related articles, plus the tournament’s match schedule.
2025 SheBelieves Cup — Summary Details
The SheBelieves Cup is an annual friendly tournament for women’s national teams that is hosted by the United States Women’s National Team. This is the tenth edition of the tournament, which was first held in 2016.
This year, the three guest teams are Japan, which is ranked 8th in the world, Australia, which is ranked 15th, and Colombia, which is ranked 21st. Japan is returning for its third-straight SheBelieves Cup and fifth in total, while Australia and Colombia will be playing in their first SheBelieves Cup. (If you’re wondering why there are no European teams, that is because they are not available for this tournament due to having UEFA Nations League matches during this international window.)
The USWNT played both Australia and Japan at the 2024 Summer Olympics. The USA also faced Colombia in 2024, at the Concacaf W Gold Cup.
The 2025 edition of the SheBelieves Cup returns to the normal round-robin group format, where each team plays the other teams once, over three match days. Last year, the tournament had to be fit into two match days, so a knockout bracket format was used.
2025 SheBelieves Cup — Match Schedule with TV/Streaming Details
TV/Streaming Details
In the United States, as in 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery continues to have the English-language rights to the USWNT’s friendlies, while NBCUniversal has the Spanish-language rights.
TV
All six matches of the 2025 SheBelieves Cup will be televised live by Universo with Spanish-language commentary.
Only the USWNT’s matches will also be shown on TBS with English-language coverage.
Streaming
Every match of the 2025 SheBelieves Cup will be streamed live via Max and Peacock. On Max, the matches will have English-language commentary, while Peacock will have Spanish-language coverage.
For those with a TV service provider (cable, satellite, YouTube TV, etc.) and have a package that includes Telemundo and Universo, the matches can also be viewed — with Spanish-language commentary — using the NBC Sports app or NBC.com. One will need to link their TV service provider account in order to access those streams. (For more details, see this NBC help page.)
Replays
If you missed or want to rewatch any of the six matches from this year’s SheBelieve Cup, Replays will be available via the Max and Peacock streaming services as well as NBC.com (see previous section for how to access).
Match Schedule
All match times are the “start” times for the main coverage and not kickoff times. The kickoff times are typically about five to seven minutes later.
The hyperlinked “Max”, “NBC.com” and “Peacock” are Direct links to the respective stream/replay for the match.
Thursday, February 20th (Houston, TX)
- 5:00 p.m. ET — Japan vs. Australia (Universo; Max, NBC.com, Peacock)
- 8:00 p.m. ET — USWNT vs. Colombia (TBS, Universo; Max, NBC.com, Peacock)*
*On TBS, pregame coverage for the USWNT match begins at 7:00 pm ET.
Sunday, February 23rd (Glendale, AZ)
- 2:00 p.m. ET — Colombia vs. Japan (Universo; Max, NBC.com, Peacock)
- 5:00 p.m. ET — USWNT vs. Australia (TBS, Universo; Max, NBC.com, Peacock)*
*On TBS, pregame coverage for the USWNT match begins at 4:00 pm ET.
Wednesday, February 26th (San Diego, CA)
- 7:30 p.m. ET — Australia vs. Colombia (Universo; Max, NBC.com, Peacock)
- 10:30 p.m. ET — USWNT vs. Japan (TBS, Universo; Max, NBC.com, Peacock)*
*On TBS, pregame coverage for the USWNT match begins at 10:00 pm ET.
Original Article (November 2024): 2025 SheBelieves Cup — Teams, Schedule, and USA TV/Streaming Details Announced
2025 SheBelieves Cup — Team Rosters
For comprehensive write-ups covering each roster, with tables of basic statistics (national team caps and goals, plus ages and heights), see the “Roster Article” link following each roster index card.
Any changes to the rosters will be noted here as well as on their individual roster articles.
Australia
Also see: 2025 SheBelieves Cup: Player Spotlights — Australia
Update: (17-Feb-2025): Midfielder Clare Wheeler has been withdrawn due to a thigh injury. The uncapped Alana Murphy of the Melbourne Victory has been called in as a replacement. (matildas.com.au) Also, the Australia WNT has published the players’ shirt numbers for this tournament (Instagram).
Colombia
Roster Article: 2025 SheBelieves Cup: Colombia roster announced — Three NWSL players called up, no Manuela Vanegas
Japan
Roster Article: 2025 SheBelieves Cup: Japan roster announced — Washington Spirit’s Narumi Miura returns, Utah Royals forward Mina Tanaka also called up
Updates:
- 17-Feb-2025: Defender Rion Ishikawa has been withdrawn. (JFA news item)
- 18-Feb-2025: Angel City’s Miyabi Moriya has been called up to replace Ishikawa. (JFA news item)
- 19-Feb-2024: Kiko Seike has been withdrawn and replaced with Manaka Matsukubo of the North Carolina Courage. (JFA news item)
USA
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