Atlanta United announces 2025 roster and salary budget details
Wonder how much GAM Atlanta United has left? It's all here.
Atlanta United announced the roster the team will roll with heading into the season opener that kicks off Saturday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium — and a whole lot more.
The Fives Stripes announced the 18 players that occupy the 20 senior roster spots are as seen below:
And here are the players on the supplemental roster, whose contracts do not count against Atlanta United’s salary budget charges.
This is all pretty predictable or previously known thanks to the club’s transparency in past communications and on-record statements with regard to various players’ contractual details.
But Atlanta pushed the boundaries of transparency even further today but announcing the club’s current amount of General Allocation Money in reserve, which stands at a total of $1,031,065 in Garberbucks. (Full details of how teams could acquire GAM is listed here.)
As can be deducted from the roster, the team has two open U-22 slots as Edwin Mosquera remains the only one with such a designation. But without an international slot as things stand (and is likely to change soon as players acquire green cards) those U-22 slots are unlikely to be filled until at least the summer transfer window.
And lastly, the team announced that it has used one of its two annual buyouts on the remainder of the salary the team owes to Derrick Etienne Jr, who the team traded to Toronto last April.
This is by far the most amount of roster-building information that an MLS team has ever made public, and done voluntarily by the club. And for that, Five Stripe Final and our association of nerds thanks them.
That extra million could make for an interesting summer transfer window if any holes become obvious
1) Kudos to the FO: great info for our supporters and giving nothing away to the competition.
2) With the exception of $comp, which we won't see until the union releases data in the spring, the roster looks super-well constructed: No one we really want that we don't control through at least 2026, and only one (Muyumba) that we might not want that we are committed to past 2025. More kudos to the FO.