Olympic soccer draw: USWNT gets Germany, U.S. men with France - ESPN

The United States women's national soccer team will face Australia, Germany and either Morocco or Zambia in Group B at the 2024 Paris Olympics, FIFA confirmed Wednesday during the tournament draw at the Pulse Building near Paris.

The tournament will mark the Americans' first competitive games with incoming head coach Emma Hayes at the helm. She takes over the team following its worst finish in World Cup history last year, when the U.S. was eliminated by Sweden in the round of 16.

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«The bottom line is we're just excited to have a path, to know who we're playing, for the most part,» interim coach Twila Kilgore said in a news conference following the draw.

«We'll start working on specific game plans and things like that, but also just to know the logistical path [helps]. There's so much that goes into an Olympics with such a short turnaround and congested games. For our administration to be able to start mapping that out and take bigger steps towards where we're headed is really, really important and exciting.»

Tournament play will begin for the U.S. on July 25 in Nice against either Morocco or Zambia, who will compete in a two-leg playoff in April. The Americans have never previously played either team.

The Americans won four of the first five Olympics to feature women's soccer, but they are in search of their first gold medal since the 2012 London Games. They earned a bronze medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021.

The U.S. recently fell to No. 4 in FIFA's rankings, its worst position since the rankings launched in 2003. But the Americans were one of three seeded teams for the tournament alongside World Cup champion Spain and host France. England, the No. 2 team in the