USA are winless in their last 12 World Cup matches against European teams (6D-6L).
Turkey3–2USA
Stats
USA are winless in their last 13 World Cup matches against European teams (6D-7L).
Turkey and USA have never met at a FIFA World Cup. This will be their first World Cup encounter.
USA can equal their national World Cup group-stage record of 5 consecutive matches unbeaten by avoiding defeat (currently on 4).
USA return to the Los Angeles area (Rose Bowl, Pasadena) for the 2026 World Cup, 32 years after their last match there — a 0-1 loss to Romania in the 1994 group stage.
Match Events
0–1
3'Auston Trusty
10'Arda Güler
1–1
31'Barış Alper Yılmaz
2–1
2–2
49'Sebastian Berhalter
90+8'Kaan Ayhan
3–2
Lineups
Turkey
USA
- 23Uğurcan Çakır
- 2Zeki Çelik↓84'
- 13Eren Elmalı
- 14Abdülkerim Bardakcı
- 15Ozan Kabak
- 5Salih Özcan
- 6Orkun Kökçü↓88'
- 8Arda Güler
- 11Kenan Yıldız
- 21Barış Alper Yılmaz
- 24Oğuz Aydın
- 1Matt Turner
- 6Auston Trusty
- 12Miles Robinson
- 22Mark McKenzie
- 23Joe Scally↓77'
- 7Giovanni Reyna↓76'
- 8Weston McKennie↓86'
- 14Sebastian Berhalter
- 9Ricardo Pepi
- 11Brenden Aaronson↓77'
- 21Timothy Weah↓58'
Substitutes
- 4Çağlar Söyüncü↑84'
- 18Mert Müldür↑90'
- 22Kaan Ayhan↑88'
- 17İrfan Can Kahveci↑90'
- 26Can Uzun↑84'
- 2Sergiño Dest↑76'
- 16Alex Freeman↑77'
- 17Malik Tillman↑86'
- 10Christian Pulisic↑58'
- 26Alejandro Zendejas↑77'