San Diego FC will have four selections in Thursday’s Major League Soccer SuperDraft as the club looks to lengthen its roster following a record-setting expansion season.

SDFC will pick 28th, 58th, 76th and 88th in the draft, which begins at 11 a.m. The low picks are a relatively good problem to have: By advancing to the Western Conference championship game, SDFC ensured that it would pick near third from the bottom in each round. The club’s No. 76 pick was acquired from FC Dallas in a July trade for goalkeeper Jacob Jackson.

San Diego FC can only hope that this year’s SuperDraft works out as well as last year’s did. The club took UC Santa Barbara midfielder Manu Duah with the No. 1 overall pick, then put him at a new position – center back – and developed him into an MLS regular. Ian Pilcher, who SDFC selected 24th overall, proved to be a major contributor to the MLS club as a rookie, while the other players SDFC selected – Washington’s Harrison Bertos (second round, 31st overall), USD’s Samy Kanaan (second round, 56th overall) and Sacramento State’s Donovan Sessoms (third round, 61st overall) – never appeared with the club.

MLS clubs can pick from among 436 players in this year’s SuperDraft, 16 of whom have San Diego ties. They are: USD’s Vicente Ayala, Cesar Bahena, Luca Fava, Noah James, Iain Wagner, Owen Walz and Ethan Warne; UC San Diego’s Bryce Barnum; San Diego State’s Christian Engmann, Josh Lucas and Tristan Viviani; and San Diego natives Liam Beckwith (Princeton), Giuliano Fravolini Whitchurch (Princeton), Dylan Groeneveld (Stanford), Jack Hunt (Princeton) and Jack Sandmeyer (North Carolina). Sandmeyer played at USD before transferring to UNC.

Trade finalized

San Diego finalized a trade for Scottish star Lewis Morgan, giving up its third-round pick in the 2027 SuperDraft in exchange for the New York Red Bulls winger. The teams also agreed to swap money.

SDFC will send $450,000 to the Red Bulls for Morgan, with the possibility of sending another $650,000 east, depending on how he fares in San Diego. The Red Bulls will send SDFC $525,000 in general allocation money for the 2027 season.

Morgan is under contract through the 2026 season, though SDFC will have club options for 2027 and 2028.

“Lewis is an attacker who can play across the front three and brings qualities that will add to our group in 2026,” said SDFC sporting director Tyler Heaps.

“He’s proven he can contribute goals and assists in this league, and we look forward to welcoming him to San Diego when we start preseason in the new year.”

Coachella Valley matchups set

The National Women’s Soccer League’s San Diego Wave will take part in two matches during February’s Coachella Valley Invitational in Indio, the team announced Wednesday.

The Wave will take on the Kansas City Current on Feb. 15 at 10:30 a.m. and Denver Summit FC on Feb. 21 at noon. This marks the third straight year that the Wave have played exhibitions at the Empire Polo Club.

SDFC took part in the invitational ahead of its inaugural season in 2025 but will not return this year. Instead, SDFC will take part in the Concacaf Champions Cup starting that month. SDFC will host LIGA MX’s Pumas UNAM on Feb. 3 at 8 p.m.; the teams will play again on Feb. 10 at 5 p.m. at Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City.

Wave extend, loan out player

The San Diego Wave signed Jordan Fusco to a two-year contract extension on Wednesday, then announced they were loaning the midfielder to the Tampa Bay Sun of the USL Super League through June 8.

Fusco signed with the Wave ahead of the 2025 season out of Penn State, then appeared in eight matches as a rookie. She was also part of the Wave team that won last week’s sevens tournament in Florida, logging one goal and one assist.