{"id":322231,"date":"2025-10-21T22:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322231\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T22:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T22:17:30","slug":"houston-dynamo-fc-announce-roster-decisions-following-the-2025-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/322231\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo FC announce roster decisions following the 2025 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOUSTON (Oct. 21, 2025)<\/strong> <strong>\u2013<\/strong> <strong>Houston Dynamo FC<\/strong> announced Tuesday that the Club has exercised contract options on five players as they aim to return to the postseason in 2026. The Dynamo declined options on 10 players, and an additional 14 are on guaranteed contracts. These moves leave the team with 19 players on the roster as the offseason begins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are disappointed to fall short of our goal of qualifying for the playoffs for a third consecutive season,\u201d said Dynamo President of Soccer <strong>Pat Onstad<\/strong>. \u201cAs we conclude the 2025 season, we&#8217;ve made the decision to part ways with several players who have contributed to our success in recent years, including winning the 2023 U.S. Open Cup and setting the Club\u2019s point record in 2024. We are grateful for their effort and commitment to our Club and community and wish them the best in the next step of their careers. We are now singularly focused on improving next season&#8217;s team, returning to the playoffs and putting ourselves in a position to compete for trophies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Houston exercised 2026 contract options for the following five (5) players:<\/p>\n<p>Houston declined 2026 contract options for the following 10 players:<\/p>\n<p>The following player is currently on loan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DF Kieran Sargeant (Lexington SC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Houston is currently negotiating with the following two (2) players about their return to the team for the 2026 campaign:<\/p>\n<p>The following three (3) players enter free agency this offseason:<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamo enter the offseason with the following 19 players under contract:<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s updated roster can be found below listed alphabetically by position:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goalkeepers (3):<\/strong> Jonathan Bond, Blake Gillingham, Jimmy Maurer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defenders (4):<\/strong> Felipe Andrade, Ant\u00f4nio Carlos, Griffin Dorsey, Erik Sviatchenko<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midfielders (7):<\/strong> Artur, Duane Holmes, Ond\u0159ej Lingr, Jack McGlynn, Brooklyn Raines, Sebastian Rodriguez, Diadi\u00e9 Samass\u00e9kou<\/p>\n<p><strong>Forwards (5):<\/strong> Exon Arz\u00fa, Lawrence Ennali, Toyosi Olusanya, Ezequiel Ponce, Nelson Qui\u00f1\u00f3nes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (Oct. 21, 2025) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC announced Tuesday that the Club has exercised contract options on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":322232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[15757,4345,15755,15756,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-322231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-hdfc-app","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-dynamo-fc","11":"tag-houston-dynamo-news","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115414475986167166","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}