On Wednesday, the draw for the 2024 Summer time Olympics was accomplished and each the USA women and men will likely be taking part. The match will carry the primary look of an Emma Hayes-led USWNT after she leaves Chelsea for the USA. Excessive expectations will come along with her arrival whereas the USA males are making their first look within the match since 2008. 

For the ladies’s match, there are not any age restrictions so Hayes will have the ability to carry whoever she desires from the USWNT pool to Paris. With a 22-player roster, there’ll have to be some versatile gamers included. There will likely be 5 substitutions allowed as effectively. In all, 12 groups are concerned within the ladies’s match as the highest two groups in every group and the 2 greatest third-placed groups will advance to the knockout stage

The group stage kicks off on Thursday, July 25 and the USWNT will play Morocco or Zambia that day, Germany on Sunday, July 28, and Australia on Wednesday, July 31. 

For the boys’s match, 16 groups are concerned and the highest two groups of every group will advance to the knockout stage. If the USA advance, they will face the winner of Group B. The U23s will participate within the match however they’re allowed to hold three overaged gamers to reinforce the squad. They may also solely have a 22-player roster as an alternative of a normal 23-man roster, and there may also be 5 substitutions allowed per workforce.

The group stage kicks off on Wednesday, July 24 when the USA will play France, then it’s New Zealand on Saturday, July 27, and the AFC-CAF Playoff winner on Tuesday, July 30. 

Girls’s draw

Group A

• France 
• Colombia 
• Canada
• New Zealand

Group B

• USA 
• Zambia/Morocco
• Germany
• Australia

Group C

• Spain 
• Japan 
• South Africa/Nigeria
• Brazil

Males’s draw

Group A

• France
• United States
• AFC vs. CAF playoff
• New Zeland

Group B

• Argentina
• Morocco
• AFC 3
• Ukraine

Group C

• AFC 2
• Spain
• Egypt
• Dominican Republic

Group D

Necessary dates

• Opening Ceremony, Friday, July 26 
• Males’s group stage, July 24-30
• Girls’s group stage, July 25-31
• Males’s knockout stage, Aug. 2-5
• Girls’s knockout stage, Aug. 3-6
• Males’s ultimate, Aug. 9
• Girls’s ultimate, Aug. 10