# List of United States men's national soccer team captains

The following table includes players who have captained the United States men's national soccer team (featuring all caps, goals and assists or goalkeeper wins and shutouts) from April 16, 1989, through January 20, 2024, a game with Slovenia. 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– |
| 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 | Kasey Keller | 25 | GK | 102 | 99 | 53 | 47 | 1990–2007 |
| 8 | Thomas Dooley | 23 | D/M | 81 | 76 | 7 | 3 | 1992–1999 |
| 9 | Clint Dempsey | 20 | F | 140 | 122 | 57 | 20 | 2004–2017 |
| 10 | Landon Donovan | 19 | M/F | 157 | 142 | 57 | 58 | 2000–2014 |
| | Marcelo Balboa | 19 | D | 127 | 117 | 13 | 4 | 1988–2000 |
| | Christian Pulisic | 19 | M/F | 64 | 28 | 10 | 8 | 2016– |
| 13 | Peter Vermes | 14 | F | 66 | 58 | 11 | 3 | 1988–1997 |
| 14 | Walter Bahr | 13 | M | 19 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1948–1957 |
| 15 | Rick Davis | 12 | M | 35 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 1977–1988 |
| | Werner Roth | 12 | D | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1972–1975 |
| 17 | Adolph Bachmeier | 11 | M | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 1959–1969 |
| | Jeff Agoos | 11 | D | 134 | 124 | 4 | 8 | 1988–2003 |
| | Tyler Adams | 11 | M | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2017- |
| 20 | Tim Howard | 10 | GK | 120 | 118 | 61 | 42 | 2002–2017 |
| | Tim Ream | 10 | D | 55 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2010– |
| 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 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2015- |
| 25 | Al Trost | 8 | M | 14 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1973–1978 |
| | Walker Zimmerman | 8 | D | 42 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2017– |
| 27 | Jozy Altidore | 7 | F | 109 | 93 | 41 | 13 | 2007– |
| | 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2018- |
| | Zack Steffen | 5 | GK | 12 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2018- |
| 40 | 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 |
| | Matt Turner | 4 | GK | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2021- |
| 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– |
| | 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 | 49 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 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- |
| 83 | 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– |
| | Graham Zusi | 1 | M/D | 51 | 37 | 5 | 6 | 2012–2017 |
| | DeAndre Yedlin | 1 | D | 59 | 35 | 0 | 7 | 2014– |
| | 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- |
| | Bruce Murray | 1 | F | 85 | 76 | 21 | 6 | 1985–1993 |
| | Kellyn Acosta | 1 | M | 58 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2016- |
| | Sean Johnson | 1 | GK | 13 | 0 | 21 | 6 | 2011– |
| | Miles Robinson | 1 | D | 28 | 3 | 21 | 6 | 2019– |
* Steve Sampson stated that Thomas Dooley and John Harkes captained the majority of USMNT matches during Sampson's tenure from 1995 to 1998.