Photo courtesy Philadellphia Union II Communications

On Thursday, February 27th, 2025 Major League Soccer published official roster profiles for each of its 30 clubs participating in the 2025  season. (Click here for English. Click here for Spanish.) Since the information is fundamental to fans following the Philadelphia Union and Philadelphia Union II, we present it below as best we can.

We reproduce the information’s substance exactly.

We cannot reproduce either the layout or the color exactly, so we explain our changes in our notes following the document itself.

2025 Philadelphia Union Roster Profile

“Official Philadelphia Union Roster Profile as of February 24, 2025.” Philadelphia’s Special Player Model is 3 DPs & 3 U22s. [The typos in names and the abbreviations both textual and numerical are deliberate for layout purposes.]

Unofficial Notes from PSP:

1. Consider the document a photographic snapshot of the Union’s roster as it was on February 24^th, 2025 three days after 2025’s Roster Compliance Day. It does not reflect any subsequent changes.
2. To differentiate headings from data we have italicized and underlined them, unlike the original which uses a grey background color to highlight them.
3. To make the Option Years fit, we have abbreviated them, e.g., 2029 = 29.
4. The carats after Gazdag’s and Uhre’s names in the Designated Player list means their salaries are too high to be bought down with allocation money. Each must therefore be greater than $1,743,750, the sum of $1 million plus the maximum individual annual salary budget charge for 2025, which is $743.750.That is the upper limit for buy-downs in 2025.
5. Nine of the 11 who started in Orlando are either DPs, U22s, or TAM players. Only Westfield and Lukic were not. Neither is Nathan Harriel who is currently injured.
6. Jesus Bueno has apparently succeeded in getting a Green Card, since he is no longer listed as filling an international slot.
7. To make the layout fit we have used the textual abbreviations DP, HG, and loanout, and we have reduced column widths.
8. To facilitate counting we added the number column on the left.
9. The original document separates DPs, U22s and TAM players by color coding their texts’ backgrounds. We cannot reproduce that feature.
10. We assume PT under the heading Option Years for Ian Glavinovich indicates the announced purchase option. We do not know what the year 2029 signifies.
11. Off-Roster Homegrown players may appear on the first team’s bench for official regular season games and play in them, but only on short-term four- day contracts. They may do so only six times while maintaining their off-roster status.

Salary Cap reminders

Major League Soccer  pays all senior roster salaries equal to or less than the maximum individual salary budget charge which is $743,750 in 2025. We do not know from where MLS gets the money, but we assume the clubs contribute in some way alongside TV and live-streaming revenues. Each senior roster player must receive a minimum salary of $104,000.

All salary charges above $743,750 are paid  by the club, either directly or using allocation money. Those payments go to Designated Players, U 22 Initiative players, and/or TAM players.

All players on the supplemental roster or designated as off-roster are paid by the clubs themselves not the league. Supplemental Roster players older than 24 must receive the previously mentioned senior roster minimum of $104,000. Players younger than that must received the Reserve Roster minimum which this year is $80,622.

Click here for the roster rules and regulations summary that is available to the general public.

We will learn salaries when the players’ union publishes its Spring Salary Guide, in roughly three months if past practice is a guideline.