List of United States men's national soccer team captains

The following tables includes players who have captained the United States men's national soccer team (featuring all caps, goals, assists and goalkeeper wins and shutouts) from January 24, 1998 through the November 15, 2016 game with Costa Rica. Values come from US Soccer Federation Media Guide. All players with UNK under Captain did captain United States men's national soccer team at one point during their career but numbers can't be validated.

All other Captain amounts from 1916 - 1997 based on Web Site 11v11 which doesn't include every matches captain so totals aren't 100% accurate.

USMNT Captains

Rank	Player	Captain	POS	GP	GS	G/GK-W	A/GK-SO	Years
1	Carlos Bocanegra	63	D	110	105	14	8	2001–2012
2	Claudio Reyna	46	M	112	94	8	19	1994–2006
3	Mike Windischmann	39	D	50	46	0	0	1984–1990
4	Michael Bradley	32	M	126	119	15	21	2006–
5	Kasey Keller	24	GK	102	99	53	47	1990–2007
6	Clint Dempsey	21	F	130	52	15	22	2004–
7	Landon Donovan	20	M/F	157	142	57	58	2000–2014
8	Rick Davis	16	M	35	35	7	0	1977–1988
9	Tony Meola	15	GK	100	97	37	32	1988–2002
	Peter Vermes	15	F	66	58	11	3	1988–1997
11	Tim Howard	11	GK	110	109	56	37	2002-
	Walter Bahr	11	M	19	19	1	0	1948–1957
13	Thomas Dooley	10*	D/M	81	76	7	3	1992–1999
	Werner Roth	10	D	15	15	0	0	1972–1975
15	Earnie Stewart	9	M/F	101	77	17	10	1990–2004
	Steve Pecher	9	D	17	17	0	0	1976–1980
17	Jozy Altidore	7	F	97	84	37	9	2007–
	DaMarcus Beasley	7	M/D	123	98	17	13	2001–2015
	Jeff Agoos	7	D	134	124	4	8	1988–2003
	John Harkes	7*	M	90	89	6	11	1987–2000
	Al Trost	7	M	14	14	1	0	1973–1978
	Adolph Bachmeier	7	M	15	15	0	0	1959–1969
	Mike Flater	6	F	15	14	0	0	1975–1977
	Harry Keough	6	D	19	19	1	0	1949–1957
	Brian McBride	4	F	95	76	30	10	1993
	Clint Mathis	4	F	46	30	12	9	1998–2005
	Chris Armas	4	M	66	61	2	4	1998–2005
	Brad Friedel	4	GK	82	80	27	24	1992–2004
	Cobi Jones	4	M/F	164	109	15	22	1992–2004
	Glenn Myernick	4	M	10	10	0	0	1977–1979
	Bob Kehoe	4	D	4	4	0	0	1965
	Tom Florie	4	F	8	8	2	0	1925–1934
33	Marcelo Balboa	3	D	127	117	13	4	1988–2000
	John Dubienny	3	M	3	3	0	0	1937
35	Tom Kain	2	M	5	5	0	0	1986–1987
	Jeff Durgan	2	D	7	7	1	0	1983–1985
	Alex Skotarek	2	D	10	10	0	0	1975–1976
	Dave D'Errico	2	D/M	19	18	0	0	1974–1977
	Charlie McCully	2	F	11	11	0	0	1973–1975
	Willy Roy	2	F	20	20	9	0	1965–1973
	Zenon Snylyk	2	M	6	5	0	0	1956–1963
	Andy Straden	2	F	4	4	3	0	1924
	Thomas Swords	2	F	2	2	0	0	1916
44	Alejandro Bedoya	1	M	55	44	2	8	2010–
	Kyle Beckerman	1	M	58	46	1	2	2007–
	Dax McCarty	1	M	5	1	0	0	2009–2011
	Brad Guzan	1	GK	51	43	28	18	2006–
	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
	Steve Trittschuh	1	D	37	31	2	0	1987–1995
	Boris Bandov	1	M	33	33	2	0	1976–1983
	Mike Ivanow	1	GK	10	9	3	3	1973–1975
	Bob Gansler	1	D	5	5	0	0	1968
	Ed Murphy	1	F	18	17	5	0	1955–1969
	Edward McIlvenny	1	M	3	3	0	0	1950
	Manuel Martin	1	D	10	10	0	0	1947–1949
	Francis Ryan	1	M	4	4	1	0	1928–1936
	George Moorhouse	1	D	7	7	0	0	1926–1934
NA	Alexi Lalas	UNK	D	96	87	9	11	1991–1998
NA	Brian Quinn	UNK	M	48	41	1	2	1991–1994
NA	Eric Wynalda	UNK	F	106	90	34	16	1990–2000
NA	Fernando Clavijo	UNK	D	61	55	0	1	1990–1994
NA	Tab Ramos	UNK	M	81	70	8	14	1988–2000
NA	John Doyle	UNK	D	53	49	3	2	1987–1994
NA	Eric Eichmann	UNK	M	29	16	4	0	1986–1993
NA	John Stollmeyer	UNK	D	31	26	0	1	1986–1990
NA	David Vanole	UNK	GK	13	13	3	3	1986–1989
NA	Bruce Murray	UNK	F	85	76	21	6	1985–1993
NA	Paul Caligiuri	UNK	D	110	93	5	4	1984–1997
NA	Hugo Perez	UNK	M	73	66	13	8	1984–1994
NA	Kevin Crow	UNK	D	13	11	0	0	1984–1988
NA	Pat McBride	UNK	M	5	3	0	0	1969–1975

• Steve Sampson stated that Thomas Dooley & John Harkes captained the majority of USMNT matches during is tenure of 1995-1998

References

Captain America! Players that captained USA during a World Cup

The Captain's Armband

See also