TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Re-signed<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia Union<\/a> have re-signed midfielder Ben Bender<\/a> through June 2027 with an option through June 2028, the club announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n The 24-year-old made eight appearances across all competitions for the Union during their 2025 Supporters’ Shield-winning<\/a> season.<\/p>\n Previously, he contributed 8g\/8a in 61 total matches for Charlotte FC<\/a>, who selected him No. 1 overall in the 2022 MLS SuperDraft<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cBen has been a positive addition and has made meaningful contributions since returning to the Union last May,\u201d said head coach Bradley Carnell. \u201cWhen given opportunities, he\u2019s consistently made the most of them, bringing a high level of competitiveness and a strong work ethic to the pitch every day.<\/p>\n “We\u2019re confident in his continued development and future impact with the team.\u201d<\/p>\n Philadelphia begin their 2026 MLS Season on Feb. 21 with a visit to D.C. United<\/a> (7:30 pm ET | Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Re-signed The Philadelphia Union have re-signed midfielder Ben Bender through June 2027 with an option…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[40758,69,71,70,10227,10226,26410],"class_list":["post-80337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-benjamin-bender","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union","tag-sendtonews","tag-transfer-tracker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}