Team Europe Solheim Cup 2026: Full Roster, Rookies and Records
The Team Europe Solheim Cup 2026 side is locked in. Captain Anna Nordqvist named her four wildcards on 3 August, adding Leona Maguire and three debutants to eight automatic qualifiers.
Europe host the United States at Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt from 11 to 13 September, the first Solheim Cup staged in the Netherlands. Europe need 14.5 points from 28 to take the trophy back after losing it in Virginia in 2024.
Jump to: Full roster | How they qualified | Player by player | Captain and vice captains | Picks and rookies | Records and history | Schedule and TV | FAQ
Team Europe Solheim Cup 2026 Roster in Full
| # | Player | Country | Age | 2026 appearance | Record (W-L-H) | Qualified via |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Charley Hull | England | 30 | 8th | 15-9-3 | LET points |
| 2 | Esther Henseleit | Germany | 27 | 2nd | 1-1-1 | LET points |
| 3 | Lottie Woad | England | 22 | Debut | Rookie | Rolex Rankings |
| 4 | Maja Stark | Sweden | 26 | 3rd | 3-3-2 | Rolex Rankings |
| 5 | Céline Boutier | France | 32 | 5th | 7-6-1 | Rolex Rankings |
| 6 | Carlota Ciganda | Spain | 36 | 8th | 12-11-4 | Rolex Rankings |
| 7 | Linn Grant | Sweden | 27 | 3rd | 3-6-0 | Rolex Rankings |
| 8 | Nanna Koerstz Madsen | Denmark | 31 | 2nd | 1-1-1 | Rolex Rankings |
| 9 | Leona Maguire | Ireland | 31 | 4th | 8-3-1 | Captain’s pick |
| 10 | Julia López Ramírez | Spain | 23 | Debut | Rookie | Captain’s pick |
| 11 | Nastasia Nadaud | France | 21 | Debut | Rookie | Captain’s pick |
| 12 | Mimi Rhodes | England | 24 | Debut | Rookie | Captain’s pick |
Seven nations are represented. England has three players, Spain, Sweden and France have two each, and Germany, Denmark and Ireland one each. Average age is 27.5. Four of the 12 have never played a Solheim Cup, double the two rookies on Angela Stanford’s American side.
How Europe’s Players Qualified
Europe fills its team three ways:
- Two spots from the Ladies European Tour Solheim Cup points list. Hull led it and Henseleit took second in the final qualifying week.
- Six spots for the highest ranked Europeans in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings who had not already qualified.
- Four captain’s picks for Nordqvist, one more than Suzann Pettersen had in 2024.
Henseleit’s route was the dramatic one. She forced a playoff at the AIG Women’s Open at Royal Lytham and St Annes on 2 August, lost it to Shiho Kuwaki, and that runner up finish lifted her past Chiara Tamburlini into the final automatic place.
Team Europe Player by Player
Charley Hull, England (15-9-3)
Europe’s most productive active player, on an eighth appearance at 30. Hull has 16.5 points from 27 matches, and her 6&4 win over Nelly Korda in the 2024 singles was Europe’s standout result of that week. In 2026 she won the PIF Saudi Ladies International, reached a career high of world number three in February, then finished T2 at the U.S. Women’s Open and T6 at Royal Lytham.
Esther Henseleit, Germany (1-1-1)
Germany’s only representative and the Olympic silver medallist from Paris 2024. She went 1-1-1 on her Solheim debut in 2024, then took Kuwaki to a playoff for the year’s final major in August. She arrives in the sharpest form on the team.
Lottie Woad, England (rookie)
Europe’s highest ranked player in the Rolex Rankings and the only European rookie to qualify automatically. Woad turned professional after the 2025 Evian Championship, won the Women’s Scottish Open in her first start as a pro, then took the Kroger Queen City Championship in May 2026. Six top 10s this season, plus a T7 at the Chevron and a T6 at Royal Lytham. She is a rookie on paper only.
Maja Stark, Sweden (3-3-2)
The 2025 U.S. Women’s Open champion and the first Swede to win that title since Annika Sörenstam in 2006. Stark is on her third Solheim Cup at 26 and returned a T8 at this year’s U.S. Women’s Open. Her ball striking suits foursomes, which is where Nordqvist is most likely to use her.
Céline Boutier, France (7-6-1)
The 2023 Evian champion and the owner of a perfect 4-0-0 week at Gleneagles in 2019, still the best single Solheim by anyone in this squad. Boutier won the ShopRite LPGA Classic in May 2026, so she arrives with a trophy in the bag and a fifth cap to come.
Carlota Ciganda, Spain (12-11-4)
At 36 she has played 27 Solheim matches, level with Hull for the most in this field, and is on an eighth appearance. She went 4-0-0 at Finca Cortesín in 2023, which is the case for her in one line. Her 2026 has been quiet, including a missed cut at the KPMG Women’s PGA, so Nordqvist is counting on the matchplay record rather than the ranking.
Linn Grant, Sweden (3-6-0)
A third appearance and the thinnest record in the team, 3-6-0 with no halved matches. Grant went 3-2-0 in 2023 but lost all four in 2024. She swept LET Rookie of the Year, Player of the Year and the Order of Merit in 2022, so the ability is not the question.
Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Denmark (1-1-1)
Back for the first time since 2021, when her only Solheim win came 1 up in fourballs alongside Ciganda. Three matches is the smallest sample among the eight non rookies, though she has made four of five major cuts in 2026.
Leona Maguire, Ireland (8-3-1)
The best win rate in the team at almost 71 percent and the easiest pick Nordqvist had to make. The first Irishwoman selected for Europe, Maguire went 4-0-1 on debut at Inverness in 2021, a rookie points record for either the Solheim Cup or the Ryder Cup. She was outside the world’s top 80 at selection, so this is a pick made entirely on matchplay evidence. “I love the Solheim Cup, it brings the best out of my game,” she said after the call.
Julia López Ramírez, Spain (rookie)
World number one amateur in July 2024, now 23 and making her debut as the second Spaniard alongside Ciganda. She ranks second on the LPGA for driving distance at almost 289 yards, a real weapon in fourballs, though a first professional win still eludes her. Nordqvist singled out her “positive, outgoing, bubbly personality”.
Nastasia Nadaud, France (rookie)
At 21 the youngest player on either team. Nadaud won the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open by four shots in November 2025 and finished third on the LET Order of Merit. She has made the cut in all four majors she entered in 2026, with a best of T22 at Evian. Nordqvist says she “makes a ton of birdies”.
Mimi Rhodes, England (rookie)
The last name called. Rhodes, 24, won three LET titles in 2025, the NSW Open, the Joburg Ladies Open and the Dutch Ladies Open, and took Rookie of the Year. Her first LPGA season has been harder, with missed cuts in every major she has played. She took the selection call while driving.
Anna Nordqvist and the Vice Captains
| Role | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Captain | Anna Nordqvist | Sweden |
| Vice captain | Caroline Hedwall | Sweden |
| Vice captain | Mel Reid | England |
| Vice captain | Anne van Dam | Netherlands |
Nordqvist takes the captaincy for the first time at 39, and she arrives with nothing else on her plate. She retired from competitive golf at the FM Championship in late August 2026, ending a career that brought three majors in three different decades: the 2009 Women’s PGA, the 2017 Evian and the 2021 Women’s British Open.
As a player she made nine appearances from her 2009 debut and won 17 of her 35 matches for 18.5 points. She was also a playing vice captain in 2023 and 2024, so she has been inside the team room for the last two editions and knows these players as team mates rather than names on a ranking list.
Anne van Dam is the local addition. A five time LET winner from Arnhem and part of the winning 2019 side, she also captains Europe in the PING Junior Solheim Cup on 7 and 8 September, which for the first time is played on the same course as the senior match.
Nordqvist has called the pairings process a “puzzle” and described the squad as “a great mixture of experience and personality”, with four rookies who bring “a sense of fresh air and aggressive playing styles”.
The Captain’s Picks and the Rookie Bet
| Pick | Country | Case for selection |
|---|---|---|
| Leona Maguire | Ireland | 8-3-1 over three appearances, best win rate in the team |
| Julia López Ramírez | Spain | Former world number one amateur, second on the LPGA in driving distance |
| Nastasia Nadaud | France | LET winner, third on the 2025 Order of Merit |
| Mimi Rhodes | England | Three LET wins and Rookie of the Year in 2025 |
Nordqvist had four picks rather than three and used the extra room to go young. Chiara Tamburlini, who lost the last automatic place after missing the cut at Royal Lytham, was the notable name left out.
The case for the rookie bet is the venue. A European home crowd is the setting in which an inexperienced player is most likely to play above herself, and Nordqvist has treated the atmosphere at Bernardus as an asset.
The case against it is arithmetic. Foursomes and fourballs need eight players per session, and pairings work best when one half of each has been through it before. With eight non rookies available and Koerstz Madsen lightly tested, some debutants will have to play together.
Angela Stanford read the same week the opposite way. She brought back eight of the 12 who won in 2024 and spent her three picks on Megan Khang, Rose Zhang and Lindy Duncan.
Team Europe Solheim Cup 2026 Records and History
The United States lead the series 11 wins to 7 with one tie, having taken the trophy 15.5 to 12.5 in Virginia in 2024. Before that Europe had gone unbeaten since 2017, winning at Gleneagles in 2019 and Inverness in 2021 and retaining the cup with a 14-14 tie at Finca Cortesín in 2023.
Home advantage is real. This is the 10th Solheim Cup played in Europe and the United States have won only three of the previous nine, in Wales in 1996, Sweden in 2007 and Germany in 2015. The Americans have also not won back to back since 2015 and 2017.
| Squad record | Player | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Most matches played | Hull and Ciganda | 27 each in seven previous appearances |
| Most wins and points | Charley Hull | 15 wins, 16.5 points |
| Best win rate | Leona Maguire | 8-3-1, close to 71 percent |
| Best single week | Boutier and Ciganda | 4-0-0, in 2019 and 2023 |
| Youngest and oldest | Nadaud and Ciganda | 21 and 36 |
Between them, Hull, Ciganda, Boutier and Maguire account for 42 of the team’s 50 career Solheim wins. That concentration is why the pairing sheet matters so much this week.
Schedule, Format and How to Watch
| Day | Date | Sessions | First tees (CEST) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friday | 11 September | 4 foursomes, then 4 fourballs | 7:40 AM and 1:05 PM |
| Saturday | 12 September | 4 foursomes, then 4 fourballs | 7:40 AM and 1:05 PM |
| Sunday | 13 September | 12 singles | 11:10 AM |
There are 28 points on offer, one per match. Europe must reach 14.5 to win the cup. The United States retain it with 14, because they are the holders. Friday’s pairings are revealed at the Thursday opening ceremony, Saturday’s on Friday evening and the Sunday singles order on Saturday evening.
Golf Channel carries coverage in the United States and Sky Sports Golf has it in the UK and Ireland, with Ziggo Sport showing it in the Netherlands. Full session windows and country by country listings are on our Solheim Cup 2026 schedule and how to watch pages.
Bernardus Golf is a Kyle Phillips heathland design that opened in 2018, a par 72 measuring more than 7,400 yards from the back tees in Cromvoirt, North Brabant. This is the 20th edition of the Solheim Cup.
Team Europe Solheim Cup 2026 FAQ
Who is on the Team Europe Solheim Cup 2026 roster?
Charley Hull, Esther Henseleit, Lottie Woad, Maja Stark, Céline Boutier, Carlota Ciganda, Linn Grant, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, Leona Maguire, Julia López Ramírez, Nastasia Nadaud and Mimi Rhodes. Anna Nordqvist is the captain.
Who are Anna Nordqvist’s captain’s picks?
Leona Maguire, Julia López Ramírez, Nastasia Nadaud and Mimi Rhodes, announced on 3 August 2026. Maguire is the only one of the four with Solheim Cup experience.
How many rookies are in the 2026 European team?
Four: Lottie Woad, Julia López Ramírez, Nastasia Nadaud and Mimi Rhodes. Woad is the only one who qualified automatically. Team USA has two rookies, Auston Kim and Lindy Duncan.
Who are the Team Europe vice captains for 2026?
Caroline Hedwall, Mel Reid and Anne van Dam. Van Dam, the only Dutch member of the leadership group, also captains Europe in the PING Junior Solheim Cup on 7 and 8 September.
How did the European players qualify for 2026?
The top two on the Ladies European Tour Solheim Cup points list qualified first, then the six highest ranked remaining Europeans in the Rolex Rankings. Nordqvist then added four captain’s picks.
Which European player has the best Solheim Cup record?
Leona Maguire, at 8-3-1 from 12 matches, a win rate close to 71 percent. Charley Hull has the most wins with 15 and the most points with 16.5.
When and where is the 2026 Solheim Cup?
Friday 11 September to Sunday 13 September 2026 at Bernardus Golf in Cromvoirt, Netherlands, the first Dutch venue in the event’s history. Friday and Saturday each have four foursomes and four fourballs, and Sunday has 12 singles.
How many points does Europe need to win the Solheim Cup?
14.5 of the 28 available. The United States hold the trophy after winning in 2024, so a 14-14 tie is enough for them to keep it.
What Europe Needs at Bernardus
The Team Europe Solheim Cup 2026 squad is the youngest Nordqvist could reasonably have picked, and the first Dutch Solheim Cup is the reason she felt able to pick it. If the four rookies handle the crowd at Bernardus, Europe have the depth to take the trophy back. If they do not, the load falls on Hull, Ciganda, Boutier and Maguire, who hold 42 of the team’s 50 career wins between them.
Check back for pairings and live scoring once the first foursomes go out on 11 September. See both squads side by side on the Solheim Cup 2026 teams page, or read the full Team USA roster.
Last updated: 6 September 2026