{"id":878329,"date":"2025-12-17T23:21:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/san-diego-fc-acquire-lewis-morgan-from-red-bull-new-york-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T23:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:21:47","slug":"san-diego-fc-acquire-lewis-morgan-from-red-bull-new-york-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/17\/san-diego-fc-acquire-lewis-morgan-from-red-bull-new-york-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego FC acquire Lewis Morgan from Red Bull New York | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS:<\/strong> <em>Trade<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SD receive:<\/strong> Lewis Morgan, $525k GAM<\/li>\n<li><strong>RBNY receive:<\/strong> Up to $1.1m GAM, SuperDraft pick<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/san-diego-fc\/\">San Diego FC<\/a> have acquired midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/lewis-morgan\/\">Lewis Morgan<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-york-red-bulls\/\">Red Bull New York<\/a>, the clubs announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In exchange for the 29-year-old Scottish international, New York will receive up to $1.1 million in General Allocation Money (GAM). The funds include $450k guaranteed GAM in 2026 and up to $650k in conditional GAM.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bulls retain a portion of Morgan&#8217;s 2026 salary budget charge and receive San Diego&#8217;s natural third-round pick in the 2027 MLS SuperDraft. Additionally, San Diego will get $525k GAM in 2027 from New York.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan is under contract with San Diego through 2026 with club options for 2027 and 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLewis is an attacker who can play across the front three and brings qualities that will add to our group in 2026,\u201d said SDFC sporting director Tyler Heaps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s proven he can contribute goals and assists in this league, and we look forward to welcoming him to San Diego when we start preseason in the new year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014 New York Red Bulls (@NewYorkRedBulls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewYorkRedBulls\/status\/2001004616109167073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Morgan has spent the past six seasons in MLS, starting with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/inter-miami-cf\/\">Inter Miami CF<\/a> (2020-21) before getting traded to New York (2022-25).<\/p>\n<p>The former Celtic attacker was named the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/new-york-red-bulls-lewis-morgan-named-2024-mls-comeback-player-of-the-year\">2024 MLS Comeback Player of the Year<\/a> and helped the Red Bulls make MLS Cup presented by Audi that season. He missed most of the 2023 and 2025 campaigns due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>For his MLS career, Morgan has 38g\/17a in 140 combined games (all competitions) with Miami and New York.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s earned seven caps with Scotland, including at UEFA Euro 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLewis has always handled himself with the utmost professionalism, through many tough moments in his career and many fantastic ones,\u201d said RBNY head of sport Julian de Guzman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish Lewis the best of luck in San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>San Diego are coming off a historic debut season, where they set expansion club records for points (63) and wins (19). They made the Western Conference Final in the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Bulls are in reset mode after seeing their 15-year playoff streak end. They finished 10th in the Eastern Conference table (43 points).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/san-diego-fc-acquire-lewis-morgan-from-red-bull-new-york\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Nancie Kazmierczak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Trade SD receive: Lewis Morgan, $525k GAM RBNY receive: Up to $1.1m GAM, SuperDraft pick San Diego FC have acquired midfielder Lewis Morgan from Red Bull New York, the clubs announced Tuesday. In exchange for the 29-year-old Scottish international, New York will receive up to $1.1 million in General Allocation Money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27493,1699,2005],"tags":[6918,13195],"class_list":{"0":"post-878329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-acquire","8":"category-diego","9":"category-soccer","10":"tag-acquire","11":"tag-diego"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}