2024 SheBelieves Cup to Open in Atlanta

The ninth annual SheBelieves Cup, an annual four-team women’s soccer tournament organized by U.S. Soccer, will open on April 6 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and feature a different format in 2024 than in years past.

The U.S. women’s national team will play at 12:30 p.m. April 6, 2024, against a team to be announced. The second game of the doubleheader will be at 3:30 p.m. that day; the three other nations who are in the tournament with the USWNT will be announced in the new year.

“These are the first U.S. Soccer-controlled matches of the Olympic year for our women’s national team and we’re looking forward to a big turnout at one of the best stadiums in the world,” said U.S. Soccer President Cindy Parlow Cone. “We’re also excited to play our first match in the Atlanta area since we announced the site of our new National Training Center. … these opening games of the SheBelieves Cup in Atlanta will be a perfect way to launch our spring run to the Olympics next summer.”

U.S. Soccer will install a grass surface for the matches at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, one of the venues for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. It will be the first matches for the USWNT following the 2024 Concacaf W Gold Cup and the first of six domestic matches the team will play before the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris.

Because of the 2024 FIFA schedule with the W Gold Cup, the SheBelieves Cup will have four matches instead of six with a semifinal doubleheader, then a third-place match and championship game. In the past, the tournament had three doubleheader with each team playing each other and having the champion determined in a group stage fashion. The format will return to three doubleheaders in 2025.

The tournament is part of U.S. Soccer’s SheBelieves initiative to inspire and empower women and girls to achieve their goals in sport and beyond. The SheBelieves Cup was first played in 2016. The U.S. has won six of the eight previous tournaments with France in 2017 and England in 2019 the only exceptions.