LOS ANGELES (August 7, 2026) \u2013 The LA Galaxy announced today that the club has acquired forward Hirving \u201cChucky\u201d Lozano on loan as a Designated Player through December 2026, with a permanent trade option. Lozano joins the Galaxy following his time with San Diego FC, PSV Eindhoven of the Eredivisie, Napoli of Italy\u2019s Serie A and C.F. Pachuca of Mexico\u2019s Liga MX. The forward has tallied over 129 goals for club and country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHirving is a player whom we tried to\u00a0acquire\u00a0three years ago, so this feels like something of a full circle moment.\u00a0He\u00a0is a fierce competitor with an excellent\u00a0track record\u00a0of\u00a0performing on teams that have competed for titles in multiple leagues, including his debut season in MLS,” said Will Kuntz, General Manager, LA Galaxy.\u00a0“As we evaluated opportunities to strengthen\u00a0our roster for the stretch run of the season, it became clear that Hirving was the right player for the moment we are in as a club. We have a talented group, a strong locker room, and a clear objective over these final 15 games of the\u00a0season,\u00a0and we are thrilled that Hirving and his family\u00a0are joining the\u00a0Galaxy.”\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Lozano, 31, joins the LA Galaxy after spending one season with San Diego FC\u00a0as the club’s first-ever Designated Player signing. Prior to his arrival in Major League Soccer, the former Mexican National Team forward developed through the Pachuca academy, where he rose to the first team and recorded 43 goals and 31 assists in 149 appearances across all competitions. During his time with Pachuca, Lozano helped the club capture the Liga MX Clausura title in 2016 and the 2016\u201317 Concacaf Champions League, in which he earned the Golden Boot with his competition leading 8 goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following his success in Mexico, Lozano made the move to Dutch side PSV Eindhoven, where he\u00a0established\u00a0himself as one of Europe’s most dynamic attackers. During his first stint with the club, he tallied 40 goals and 23 assists while helping PSV claim the Eredivisie title in 2017\u201318. His performances earned a high-profile transfer to Serie A side Napoli, where he registered 30 goals and 17 assists in 155 appearances and played a key role in delivering the club’s first Scudetto in more than three decades during the 2022\u201323 campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lozano, widely known as \u201cChucky,\u201d\u00a0returned to PSV in 2023 and continued to add to his decorated r\u00e9sum\u00e9, contributing 11 goals and five assists while helping the club secure back-to-back Eredivisie titles in 2023\u201324 and 2024\u201325.\u00a0He then joined San Diego FC ahead of its inaugural 2025 MLS season, recording 20 goal contributions in 33 appearances before making the move to the LA Galaxy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lozano made his senior debut for the Mexican National Team in 2016, recording an assist in a 2-0 victory over Senegal in his first appearance. Since then, he has earned more than 70 caps and contributed 18 goals and 12 assists for his country. One of the defining moments of his international career came at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, when his goal against Germany secured a historic victory over the defending world champions. Across his international career, Lozano has represented Mexico in some of the sport\u2019s biggest competitions, including the 2016 Copa Am\u00e9rica, the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, the Concacaf Nations League, the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup, and the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups\u00a0and won the Concacaf Player of the Year award in 2018.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Transaction: LA Galaxy\u00a0acquire\u00a0forward\u00a0Hirving \u201cChucky\u201d Lozano\u00a0on loan\u00a0from San Diego FC\u00a0through\u00a0December\u00a02026,\u00a0with\u00a0a\u00a0permanent trade\u00a0option.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Name:\u00a0Hirving \u201cChucky\u201d Lozano\u00a0
Pronunciation:\u00a0EER-ving\u00a0\u201cCHOO-key\u201d\u00a0loh-ZAH-no\u00a0
Position:\u00a0Forward\u00a0
Height:\u00a05\u20199\u201d\u00a0
Born:\u00a0July 30, 1995\u00a0
Age:\u00a031\u00a0
Birthplace:\u00a0Mexico City, Mexico\u00a0
Previous Club:\u00a0San Diego FC\u00a0<\/p>\n
Roster Designation:\u00a0Designated Player<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (August 7, 2026) \u2013 The LA Galaxy announced today that the club has acquired forward Hirving…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":987486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[55902,50,10426,221,62,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-987485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-hirving-lozano","tag-news","tag-press-release","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987485","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=987485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}