2025 Angel City FC season

After a disappointing 2024 season where Angel City ending up ranking 12th out of 14 clubs, failing to reach the NWSL playoffs, on December 5, 2024, Angel City announced that they had mutually agreed to part ways with General Manager, Angela Hucles, who had first joined the club as VP of Player Development in 2021. Assistant General Manager, Matt Wade, assumed the role of interim General Manager while the club conducts a comprehensive search for a new General Manager.^[1]

Following the departure of Hucles, Angel City then announced the departure of Head Coach Becki Tweed on December 9, 2024. Assistant Coach Eleri Earnshaw will act as interim head coach while the search of a new coach begins.^[2] Angel City later announced the departure of Goalkeeping coach Omar Zeenni via social media on December 16, 2024.^[3]

Mark Parsons was announced as the club's new Sporting Director on January 15, 2025.^[4] Parsons will oversee all soccer operations, including the technical staff, the scouting and analytics department, sports medical, performance, nutrition, and player care. On January 22, 2025, the official preseason roster was announced along with the announcement that Sam Laity was appointed as the new interim Head Coach and Ludovic Antunes as the interim Goalkeeping Coach.^[5]

On April 18, 2025, it was announced that Alexander Straus had been appointed as permanent head coach. He joined the club on June 1 following the conclusion of the 2024–25 season with Bayern Munich.^[6]

After the conclusion of the 2024 season, on November 18, 2024, Angel City announced they would be moving into a newly renovated performance facility at California Lutheran University. The performance center, formerly used by the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL, offers a full-size pitch and a half and approximately 50,000 square feet of indoor space, the largest dedicated solely to NWSL club. The performance center will serve as the home of Angel City players and first-team staff for up to four years and would be completed ahead of the 2025 preseason.

On November 19, 2024, announced NYX Professional Makeup as a new multi-year sleeve sponsor for the 2025 season, NYX is the first makeup brand to invest in a soccer team.^[7]

On November 22, 2024, Angel City announced they had signed Scottish forward Claire Emslie to a new contract to keep her with Angel City until 2026.^[8]

On December 4, 2024, rookie defender Madison Curry announced she would not be re-signing with Angel City and would instead sign with Seattle Reign FC as a free agent.^[9] Later that day, Angel City announced the contract extension of Japanese goalkeeper Hannah Stambaugh for the 2025 season.^[10]

On December 5, 2024, Angel City announced that they had mutually agreed to part ways with General Manager Angela Hucles Mangano who had first joined the club as VP of Player Development in 2021. Assistant General Manager Matt Wade will assume the role of interim General Manager while the club conducts a comprehensive search for a new GM.^[1] Following the departure of Hucles, Angel City then announced the departure of Head Coach Becki Tweed on December 9, 2024. Tweed finished her time at Angel City with 17 wins, 13 draws, 17 loss across all competitions with a win rate of 36.17%. Assistant Coach Eleri Earnshaw will act as interim head coach while the search of a new coach begins.^[2]

At the conclusion of the 2024 season, on December 10, 2024, Angel City announced their end-of-season roster, they announced they will not be renewing the contract of goalkeeper DiDi Haračić and defender Jasmyne Spencer, who have been with the club since its inaugural season in 2022, as well as midfielder Meggie Dougherty Howard and forward Katie Johnson, who would later announce her retirement from professional soccer on December 20, 2024.^[11][12]

On December 16, 2024, M.A. Vignola announced she would be re-signing a new two-year contract with Angel City, keeping her at the club until 2026.^[13]

On December 17, 2024, Angel City announced they had acquired French forward Julie Dufour from Paris FC and signed her on a three-year contract beginning in January 2025.^[14] Dufour will occupy one of Angel City's international roster spots when she joins the club.

On December 20, 2024, Angel City announced they would be trading Costa Rican midfielder Rocky Rodríguez to Kansas City Current in exchange for $100,000 in intra-league transfer funds. Later that day, Mexican forward Katie Johnson, whose contract was not renewed with Angel City, also announced her retirement from professional soccer.^[15]

On December 23, 2024, Angel City announced they had signed midfielder Macey Hodge on a two-year contract through 2026 with a club option for 2027. Hodge previously played for the Mississippi State Bulldogs, and made 97 appearances over 5 years.^[16]

Two Angel City players, Alyssa Thompson and Angelina Anderson were named to the USWNT's January training camp on January 7, 2025. This was Anderson's first call up to the United States senior team.^[17] Gisele Thompson was later called up to the first ever USWNT futures camp which will run concurrently with the senior teams training camp.^[18]

Mark Parsons was announced as the club's new Sporting Director on January 15, 2025.^[4] Parsons will oversee all soccer operations, including the technical staff, the scouting and analytics department, sports medical, performance, nutrition, and player care. Parsons teased Christen Press' one-year contract renewal which was announced a few days later on January 17, 2025.^[19]

Australian defender Alanna Kennedy announced her departure from Manchester City on January 21, 2025, and it was subsequently reported that she would be signing with Angel City on a one-year contract with a mutual option for 2026.^[20] Later that day the new performance center was unveiled ahead of the start of preseason the following day.^[21] On January 22, 2025 the official preseason roster was announced along with the announcement that Sam Laity was appointed as the new interim Head Coach and Ludovic Antunes as the interim Goalkeeping Coach.^[22]

On January 29, 2025, it was announced that Alyssa and Gisele Thompson had both signed contract extensions keeping them at Angel City until 2028.^[23] On January 31, 2025, Angel City announced they had acquired Japanese defender Miyabi Moriya from INAC Kobe Leonessa for an undisclosed fee. Moriya will occupy an International Roster spot and signed a one-year contract with a club option for 2026.^[24] The following week on February 3, 2025, Angel City announced they had acquired Los Angeles-born defender Savy King from Bay FC, in exchange for $200,000 in intra-league transfer funds plus $100,000 in 2026.^[25] Four days later, the club announced that Angelina Anderson had also signed an extension until 2028.^[26]

Ahead of the International Break, both Thompson sisters were called up by Emma Hayes to represent the United States at the 2025 SheBelieves Cup, becoming the third sisters to make the same roster. Savy King also received a call-up as a training player.^[27] New signings Alanna Kennedy and Miyabi Moriya were also called up for Japan and Australia for the SheBelieves Cup, Maithe López also received a call up as training player for Colombia. Megan Reid was called up by newly appointed Canadian coach Casey Stoney to represent Canada at the 2025 Pinatar Cup. Claire Emslie was called-up to represent Scotland for UEFA Nations League matches against Austria and Netherlands.^[28]

After playing a closed door match against Bay FC, Angel City played their first public preseason match at the Coachella Invitational at the Empire Polo Fields on February 16, 2025 against Portland Thorns FC. After conceding first in the 57th minute, Lily Nabet scored her first Angel City goal off a corner kick from new signing Julie Dufour to tie the match, and U18-trialist Scottie Antonucci scored the match winner in stoppage time to finish the match as a 2–1 victory.^[29] After the conclusion of the match the players called-up for International Duty departed.

Gisele Thompson made her senior-team debut on February 20, 2025 in the first match against Colombia. Both Alyssa and Gisele started the following match against Australia and Alanna Kennedy on February 23, 2025, becoming the second sisters to start in a senior-team match for the United States.^[30] On February 25, 2025, Megan Reid scored her first international goal for Canada in a 7-0 victory over Chinese Taipei in the 2025 Pinatar Cup which was eventually won by Canada.^[31] On February 26, 2025, the United States were defeated by Japan in the final match of the 2025 SheBelievesCup, Alyssa Thompson played as a substitute against Angel City teammate Miyabi Moriya, who won the 2025 SheBelieves Cup with Japan.^[32]

With many key players out on International Duty for both teams, Angel City faced Seattle Reign FC in their second match of the Coachella Invitational on February 22, 2025, which finished as a 1–1 draw after Casey Phair scored her first goal with Angel City from a header to tie the match and finish the Coachella Invitational undefeated.^[33]

Angel City FC continued to play in BMO Stadium, their home since the team's inaugural season in 2022.

On November 18, 2024, Angel City announced they would be moving into a newly renovated performance facility at California Lutheran University. The performance center, formerly used by the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL, offers a full-size pitch and a half and approximately 50,000 square feet of indoor space, the largest dedicated solely to NWSL club. The performance center will serve as the home of Angel City players and first-team staff for up to four years and would be completed ahead of the 2025 preseason. The performance center was officially unveiled on January 21, 2025 ahead of the preseason.^[21]

The center features a 5,400-square-foot gym, custom lockers for players, coaches, staff, and a dedicated locker room for players under 18, a new hydrotherapy area including cold and hot plunge pools and saunas, a private outdoor relaxation lounge, a 3,400-square-foot medical treatment and rehabilitation area, a private recovery room, private doctor's office and medical staff offices, Custom pre- and post-training nutrition and supplement area to provide elevated nutrition area for athletes to fuel with fresh, nutritious meals prepared onsite, children's playroom to support the families of our players and staff, a 930-square-foot team meeting and film room, coaching and peraformance offices for soccer operations staff, and a fit-for-purpose studio onsite for content capture and interviews.^[34]

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