ORLANDO, Fla. (Nov. 17, 2025) \u2013 Following the conclusion of its 11th Major League Soccer season and sixth straight Audi MLS Cup Playoffs appearance, the longest active streak in MLS, Orlando City SC has announced the end-of-season statuses for each of its players.<\/p>\n
The Lions enter the 2025-26 offseason with 14 players under guaranteed contracts for the upcoming campaign. That group includes forwards Duncan McGuire, Luis Muriel, Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107 and Nico Rodr\u00edguez; midfielders Gustavo Caraballo, Colin Guske and Dagur Dan Th\u00f3rhallsson; defenders David Brekalo, Adri\u00e1n Mar\u00edn, Tahir Reid-Brown, Rodrigo Schlegel, Zakaria Taifi and Thomas Williams; and goalkeeper Javier Otero.<\/p>\n
Orlando City has exercised contract options on forwards Iv\u00e1n Angulo, Tyrese Spicer and Yutaro Tsukada; midfielders Eduard Atuesta, Joran Gerbet and Mart\u00edn Ojeda; and defender Alex Freeman.<\/p>\n
The contracts of goalkeeper Pedro Gallese, defender Kyle Smith and midfielders C\u00e9sar Ara\u00fajo and Wilder Cartagena have expired, while the Club declined the option of defender Robin Jansson. The Lions have signed Cartagena to a new contract and are currently in negotiations with Jansson and Smith regarding potential returns in 2026.<\/p>\n
The Club has also declined the contract options of goalkeeper Carlos Mercado, midfielder Shak Mohammed and forward Favian Loyola.<\/p>\n
Orlando City SC Contract Statuses (As of Nov. 17, 2025):<\/p>\n
Iv\u00e1n Angulo: Option exercised \u2013 Under contract through 2026<\/p>\n
C\u00e9sar Ara\u00fajo: Out of contract<\/p>\n
Eduard Atuesta: Option exercised \u2013 Under contract through 2026<\/p>\n
David Brekalo: Under contract through 2027, with a Club option in 2028<\/p>\n
Gustavo Caraballo: Under contract through 2027, Club option in 2028<\/p>\n
Wilder Cartagena: Signed new contract through 2026, Club option in 2027<\/p>\n
Alex Freeman: Option exercised \u2013 Under contract through 2026<\/p>\n
Pedro Gallese: Out of contract<\/p>\n
Joran Gerbet: Option exercised \u2013 Under contract through 2026, Club options through 2028<\/p>\n
Colin Guske: Under contract through 2027, Club option in 2028<\/p>\n
Robin Jansson: Option declined \u2013 In negotiations<\/p>\n
Favian Loyola: Option declined<\/p>\n
Adri\u00e1n Mar\u00edn: Under contract through 2026, Club option in 2027<\/p>\n
Duncan McGuire: Under contract through 2027, with a Club option in 2028<\/p>\n
Carlos Mercado: Option declined<\/p>\n
Shak Mohammed: Option declined<\/p>\n
Luis Muriel: Under contract through 2026<\/p>\n
Mart\u00edn Ojeda: Option exercised \u2013 Under contract through 2026, Club option in 2027<\/p>\n
Javier Otero: Under contract through 2026, Club options in 2027 and 2028<\/p>\n
Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107: Under contract through 2027, Club option in 2028<\/p>\n
Tahir Reid-Brown: Under contract through 2027, Club option in 2028<\/p>\n
Nico Rodr\u00edguez: Under contract through 2027, Club option in 2028<\/p>\n
Rodrigo Schlegel: Under contract through 2026, Club option in 2027<\/p>\n
Kyle Smith: Out of contract, in negotiations<\/p>\n
Tyrese Spicer: Option exercised \u2013 Under contract through 2026, Club option in 2027<\/p>\n
Zakaria Taifi: Under contract through 2026, Club options through 2029<\/p>\n
Dagur Dan Th\u00f3rhallsson: Option exercised \u2013 Under contract through 2026, Club option in 2027<\/p>\n
Yutaro Tsukada: Under contract through 2025, with Club options in 2026 & 2027<\/p>\n
Thomas Williams: Under contract through 2026, Club options in 2027 and 2028<\/p>\n
CURRENT ORLANDO CITY SC ROSTER:<\/p>\n
Goalkeepers (1): Javier Otero<\/p>\n
Defenders (7): David Brekalo, Alex Freeman, Adri\u00e1n Mar\u00edn, Tahir Reid-Brown, Rodrigo Schlegel, Zakaria Taifi and Thomas Williams<\/p>\n
Midfielders (7): Eduard Atuesta, Gustavo Caraballo, Wilder Cartagena, Joran Gerbet, Colin Guske, Mart\u00edn Ojeda and Dagur Dan Th\u00f3rhallsson<\/p>\n
Forwards (7): Iv\u00e1n Angulo, Duncan McGuire, Luis Muriel, Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107, Nico Rodr\u00edguez, Tyrese Spicer and Yutaro Tsukada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (Nov. 17, 2025) \u2013 Following the conclusion of its 11th Major League Soccer season and sixth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[66487,66472,66471,66482,66466,66478,155403,66481,155405,155401,155402,66483,66469,66473,66476,66484,66470,49040,66475,48778,3,155409,49036,66474,66468,155404,403,99,155408,155406,6182,66486,155400,155407,66480],"class_list":["post-298169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-adrian-marin","tag-alexander-freeman","tag-cesar-araujo","tag-colin-guske","tag-dagur-thorhallsson","tag-david-brekalo","tag-duncan-mcguire","tag-eduard-atuesta","tag-facundo-torres","tag-favian-loyola","tag-felipe-martins","tag-gustavo-caraballo","tag-ivan-angulo","tag-javier-otero","tag-joran-gerbet","tag-jose-carlos-mercado","tag-kyle-smith","tag-luis-muriel","tag-marco-pasalic","tag-martin-ojeda","tag-news","tag-nicolas-rodriguez","tag-orlando-city","tag-pedro-gallese","tag-robin-jansson","tag-shakur-mohammed","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-tahir-reid-brown","tag-thomas-williams","tag-transactions","tag-tyrese-spicer","tag-wilder-cartagena","tag-yutaro-tsukada","tag-zakaria-taifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}