{"id":313588,"date":"2025-11-25T22:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313588\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:30:08","slug":"sounders-announce-2025-end-of-season-roster-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313588\/","title":{"rendered":"Sounders announce 2025 end-of-season roster decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Seattle Sounders will start the offseason with 22 players under contract for the 2026 season after they announced roster decisions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Most of those decisions went about as expected \u2014 with the possibly notable exception that Kim Kee-hee\u2019s option was exercised as opposed to the two sides agreeing on a new deal \u2014 but still included some tough ones. The Sounders declined the options on centerback Leo Burney, goalkeeper Jacob Castro, winger Ryan Kent and left back Travian Sousa. Additionally, Jonathan Bell, Stefan Frei, Jo\u00e3o Paulo and Paul Rothrock are all out of contract and eligible to enter free agency. <\/p>\n

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Sounders\u2019 organizational depth chart<\/p>\n

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The Sounders are still in active discussions with Frei, but the other out-of-contract players are likely to test free agency, a team source indicated. Previous reports<\/a> indicated that the Sounders have been in discussions with Rothrock as well, but that they remain a ways apart. The club has also been trying to get Vargas signed to an extension to no avail.<\/p>\n

The Sounders did exercise their options on Yeimar Gomez Andrade, Osaze De Rosario, Kim, Kalani Kossa-Rienzi, Danny Musovski, Nouhou and Obed Vargas. There are 15 other players who were already under contract. Those 22 players give the Sounders solid starters and backups at virtually every position with the exception of goalkeeper, where Andrew Thomas is currently the only player under contract. Thomas, who is the presumed starter, signed an extension last year<\/a> that keeps him under club control through the 2029 season.<\/p>\n

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Seattle Sounders salary cap position<\/p>\n

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While exact figures aren\u2019t available, Sounder at Heart estimates the Sounders should have about $1.6 million in salary cap space to spend this offseason. They also have four open senior roster spots, five open supplemental spots and five open international roster spots.<\/p>\n

CURRENT SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC ROSTER\u00a0<\/p>\n

GOALKEEPERS (1):\u00a0Andrew Thomas<\/p>\n

DEFENDERS (8):\u00a0Yeimar G\u00f3mez Andrade, Cody Baker, Stuart Hawkins, Kim Kee-hee, Kalani Kossa-Rienzi, Nouhou, Jackson Ragen, Alex Roldan<\/p>\n

MIDFIELDERS (9):\u00a0Paul Arriola, Reed Baker-Whiting, Snyder Brunell, Pedro de la Vega, Danny Leyva, Georgi Minoungou, Cristian Roldan, Albert Rusn\u00e1k, Obed Vargas\u00a0<\/p>\n

FORWARDS (4):\u00a0Osaze De Rosario, Jes\u00fas Ferreira, Jordan Morris, Danny Musovski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Sounders will start the offseason with 22 players under contract for the 2026 season after they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-313588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313588","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=313588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}