Apr 22, 2025, 03:00 PM ET
The seven-on-seven football groups led through Carli Lloyd, Hope Solo, Ali Krieger, Luis Nani, Miguel Layún, Sergio Agüero and different stars realized their destiny for The Football Event from June 4-9 in Cary, North Carolina, as match organizers launched the gang matchups for the $1 million, winner-take-all tournament for each women and men.
The lads’s tournament options 48 groups whilst the ladies’s box has doubled to 16.
The ladies’s match will function protecting champions= US Ladies, who added U.S. Ladies’s Nationwide Crew (USWNT) legend Carli Lloyd to a roster that comes with her former teammates Ali Krieger and Heather O’Reilly. US Ladies will start its identify protection on June 5 in opposition to Austin Upward thrust, a brand new entrant from the Ladies’s Premier Football League (WPSL)
Hope Solo might be enjoying for the primary time in any roughly pageant since 2016. Icon Sportswire
This yr’s ladies’s box can even function Solo FC, arranged through former USWNT goalkeeper and International Cup winner Hope Solo, who will play at the workforce as smartly. Solo’s aspect kicks off in opposition to Rapid Turtles on June 5.
Returning groups from TST’s 2024 ladies’s box come with entries from Nationwide Ladies’s Football League (NWSL) golf equipment Angel Town FC and North Carolina Braveness, and the Wrexham Purple Dragons, who would be the most effective skilled membership represented in each the lads’s and girls’s occasions.
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NWSL’s Kansas Town Present will ship their 2nd workforce, KC Present II.
Within the males’s tournament Agüero will lead his Seleccion Potrero aspect in opposition to a workforce from his former membership Atlético Madrid on June 4.
“TST football is electrifying,” stated TST CEO Jon Mugar. “Our function is to turn into the preeminent football competition on the earth. Judging through the choice of returning enthusiasts and groups, we’re smartly on our manner.”
The lads’s and girls’s tournaments will function groups representing 13 nations and 12 distinguished Eu and North American skilled groups. New membership additions to this yr’s box come with English Premier League’s AFC Bournemouth, LaLiga’s Atlético Madrid, Liga MX’s Membership América, and English Championship’s Plymouth Argyle.
After showing in TST’s inaugural tournament in 2023, English Premier League membership West Ham United can even go back to the lads’s box. Returning golf equipment from TST 2024 come with Bundesliga’s Borussia Dortmund, LaLiga’s Villarreal, Serie A’s Cagliari Calcio in addition to English League One’s Wrexham Purple Dragons.
United States males’s nationwide workforce midfielder Tyler Adams will lead the recruitment for Bournemouth. It is going to be the primary time Adams has a task in the yearly $1 million winner-take-all tournament, which is happening for the 3rd time.
