The following table includes players who have captained the United States men's national Football team (featuring all caps, goals and assists or goalkeeper wins and shutouts) from April 16, 1989, through July 2, 2025, a game with Guatemala. Values come from U.S. Soccer Federation Media Guide.

All other Captain amounts from 1916 to 1988 are based on extensive research of game film, match statistics and match lineups found on numerous websites, which have been able to place a captain with every FIFA USMNT Match.

USMNT captains Rank Player Captain POS GP GS G/GK-W A/GK-SO Years 1 Carlos Bocanegra 64 D 110 105 14 8 2001–2012 2 Tony Meola 55 GK 100 97 37 32 1988–2002 3 Michael Bradley 48 M 141 134 17 22 2006–2019 4 Claudio Reyna 46 M 112 94 8 19 1994–2006 5 Mike Windischmann 40 D 50 46 0 0 1984–1990 6 John Harkes 30 M 90 89 6 11 1987–2000 7 Christian Pulisic 28 M/F 76 28 32 18 2016– 8 Tim Ream 26 D 83 1 4 2 2010–2026 9 Kasey Keller 25 GK 102 99 53 47 1990–2007 10 Thomas Dooley 23 D/M 81 76 7 3 1992–1999 11 Clint Dempsey 20 F 140 122 57 20 2004–2017 12 Landon Donovan 19 M/F 157 142 57 58 2000–2014 Marcelo Balboa 19 D 127 117 13 4 1988–2000 14 Peter Vermes 14 F 66 58 11 3 1988–1997 15 Walter Bahr 13 M 19 19 1 0 1948–1957 16 Rick Davis 12 M 35 35 7 0 1977–1988 Werner Roth 12 D 15 15 0 0 1972–1975 18 Adolph Bachmeier 11 M 15 15 0 0 1959–1969 Jeff Agoos 11 D 134 124 4 8 1988–2003 Tyler Adams 11 M 48 1 2 0 2017- 21 Tim Howard 10 GK 120 118 61 42 2002–2017 22 Earnie Stewart 9 M/F 101 77 17 10 1990–2004 Steve Pecher 9 D 17 17 0 0 1976–1980 Wil Trapp 9 D 20 9 0 0 2015-2019 25 Al Trost 8 M 14 14 1 0 1973–1978 Walker Zimmerman 8 D 45 3 2 0 2017– 27 Jozy Altidore 7 F 109 93 41 13 2007–2019 DaMarcus Beasley 7 M/D 123 98 17 13 2001–2017 Harry Keough 7 D 19 19 1 0 1949–1957 30 Brad Friedel 5 GK 82 80 27 24 1992–2004 Eddie Pope 5 D 82 82 8 0 1996–2006 Jimmy Conrad 5 D 28 23 1 0 2005–2010 Manuel Martin 5 D 10 10 0 0 1947–1949 Pablo Mastroeni 5 M 65 56 0 2 2001–2009 Paul Caligiuri 5 D 110 93 5 4 1984–1997 Mike Ivanow 5 GK 10 9 3 3 1973–1975 Tom Florie 5 F 8 8 2 0 1925–1934 Aaron Long 5 D 35 4 3 2 2018- Zack Steffen 5 GK 30 11 6 5 2018- Matt Turner 5 GK 52 0 0 0 2021- 41 Andy Straden 4 F 4 4 3 0 1924 Willy Roy 4 F 20 20 9 0 1965–1973 Kevin Crow 4 D 13 11 0 0 1984–1988 Francis Ryan 4 M 4 4 1 0 1928–1936 Brian McBride 4 F 95 76 30 10 1993-2006 Mike Flater 4 F 15 14 0 0 1975–1977 Cobi Jones 4 M/F 164 109 15 22 1992–2004 Bob Kehoe 4 D 4 4 0 0 1965 Clint Mathis 4 F 46 30 12 9 1998–2005 Chris Armas 4 M 66 61 2 4 1998–2005 Dave D'Errico 4 D/M 19 18 0 0 1974–1977 Glenn Myernick 4 M 10 10 0 0 1977–1979 53 Eric Eichmann 3 M 29 16 4 0 1986–1993 Fernando Clavijo 3 D 61 55 0 1 1990–1994 Steve Cherundolo 3 D 87 83 2 10 1999–2012 John Dubienny 3 M 3 3 0 0 1937 Brad Guzan 3 GK 58 50 30 18 2006–2021 Hugo Perez 3 M 73 66 13 8 1984–1994 Tab Ramos 3 M 81 70 8 14 1988–2000 Alejandro Bedoya 3 M 65 55 2 11 2010–2017 Brian Quinn 3 M 48 41 1 2 1991–1994 Weston McKennie 3 M 58 11 11 7 2017– 63 Zenon Snylyk 2 M 6 5 0 0 1956–1963 Tom Kain 2 M 5 5 0 0 1986–1987 Chris Henderson 2 M 79 3 0 0 1990–2001 Jeff Durgan 2 D 7 7 1 0 1983–1985 Alex Skotarek 2 D 10 10 0 0 1975–1976 John Doyle 2 D 53 49 3 2 1987–1994 Charlie McCully 2 F 11 11 0 0 1973–1975 Jack Swithenby 2 F 2 0 0 0 1885-86 Thomas Swords 2 F 2 2 0 0 1916 Steve Trittschuh 2 D 37 31 2 0 1987–1995 Eric Wynalda 2 F 106 90 34 16 1990–2000 Archie Stark 2 M/F 2 2 4 0 1925 Eddie Murphy 2 F 18 17 5 0 1955–1969 Danny Califf 2 D 23 18 1 0 2002-2009 Brian Ching 2 F 45 30 11 5 2003-2010 Eddie Lewis 2 M/F 82 57 10 16 1996-2008 Jermaine Jones 2 M 69 64 4 8 2010-2017 Oguchi Onyewu 2 D 69 62 6 3 2004-2014 Sebastian Lletget 2 M 17 4 2 0 2017- Paul Arriola 2 M 36 26 6 4 2016- Miles Robinson 2 D 28 3 21 6 2019–Chris Richards2D3027202020- 85 Mark Dodd 1 GK 15 13 4 7 1988-1997 Alexi Lalas 1 D 96 87 9 11 1991–1998 Omar Gonzalez 1 D 51 44 3 0 2010–2019 Graham Zusi 1 M/D 51 37 5 6 2012–2017 DeAndre Yedlin 1 D 59 35 0 7 2014–2023 Danny Williams 1 M 23 15 2 0 2011–2017 Kyle Beckerman 1 M 58 46 1 2 2007–2016 Dax McCarty 1 M 8 3 0 0 2009–2017 Dominic Kinnear 1 M 54 9 0 0 1990–1993 Jonathan Bornstein 1 D 38 32 2 0 2007–2011 Frankie Hejduk 1 D 85 64 7 2 1996–2009 Carlos Llamosa 1 D 29 23 0 2 1998–2002 Richie Williams 1 M 20 11 0 0 1998–2002 Boris Bandov 1 M 33 33 2 0 1976–1983 Bob Gansler 1 D 5 5 0 0 1968 Edward McIlvenny 1 M 3 3 0 0 1950 George Moorhouse 1 D 7 7 0 0 1926–1934 Eric Lichaj 1 D 15 10 1 1 2010-2018 Bruce Murray 1 F 85 76 21 6 1985–1993 Kellyn Acosta 1 M 58 2 0 0 2016-2024 Sean Johnson 1 GK 13 0 21 6 2011-2023

Steve Sampson stated that Thomas Dooley and John Harkes captained the majority of USMNT matches during Sampson's tenure from 1995 to 1998.

References

External links Captain America! Players that captained USA during a World Cup Remembering USA Soccer captains over the years