Orlando City SC

The money at Orlando City SC: what it pays its players, what it is worth and who owns it, and what it is paid. The club's games, rosters and history are at soccerstats.us.

Pay

Payroll by season

season players total pay highest paid pay
2026 27 $13,732,571 Martín Ojeda $1,778,200
2025 29 $16,110,348 Luis Muriel $4,003,333
2024 33 $17,493,932 Luis Muriel $4,336,150
2023 30 $9,642,918 Pedro Gallese $1,009,333
2022 30 $11,956,012 Ercan Kara $1,860,000
2021 33 $11,681,764 Luis Nani $2,486,250
2020 31 $11,733,964 Luis Nani $2,486,250
2019 30 $12,573,226 Nani $2,486,250
2018 30 $8,873,899 Dom Dwyer $1,383,333
2017 31 $14,584,737 Kaká $7,167,500
2016 30 $11,753,267 Kaká $7,167,500
2015 31 $11,290,004 Kaká $7,167,500
2014 5 $7,419,338 Kaká $7,167,500

Pay is guaranteed compensation where the source gives it and base salary where it does not. Total pay sums it across every player on record that season.

Transfers

season player from to move fee up to kind reported sources
2026 Alex Freeman Orlando City SC Villarreal out $4M $7M cash 1
2026 Luis Otávio Internacional Orlando City SC in $3.5M — cash 1
2026 Braian Ojeda Real Salt Lake Orlando City SC within MLS — $1.77M allocation money 1
2025 Facundo Torres Orlando City SC Palmeiras out $12M $14M cash 1 2
2025 Marco Pašalić HNK Rijeka Orlando City SC in $5M — cash 1
2024 Luis Muriel Atalanta Orlando City SC in $1M — cash 1
2022 Facundo Torres Peñarol Orlando City SC in $7.5M — cash 1
2022 Daryl Dike Orlando City SC West Bromwich Albion out £7M — cash 1
2021 Daryl Dike Orlando City SC — out $10M — bid, no deal 1
2017 Dom Dwyer Sporting Kansas City Orlando City SC within MLS $1.6M — allocation money 1

Fees paid and received, as reported; nearly all are press estimates. Every transfer on record.

Value & ownership

Valuations

Forbes Sportico Expansion fee Sale $50M $100M $200M $500M $1B 2016 Forbes: $240,000,000 2017 Forbes: $272,000,000 2018 Forbes: $275,000,000 2019 Forbes: $295,000,000 2023 Forbes: $420,000,000 2024 Forbes: $475,000,000 2025 Forbes: $475,000,000 2026 Forbes: $475,000,000 2021 Sportico: $400,000,000 2022 Sportico: $420,000,000 2024 Sportico: $505,000,000 2025 Sportico: $535,000,000 2026 Sportico: $565,000,000 2013 Orlando City SC expansion fee: $70,000,000 2021 Orlando City SC sale (100% sold): club valued at $400,000,000 2026 2024 2022 2020 2018 2016 2014 2012 2010 2008 2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 1996

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Estimated value by year, with any expansion fee and sale, on a logarithmic scale: each gridline step is a doubling or more. A line joins only consecutive years, so a year with no list is a gap.
season publisher rank value revenue operating income sources
2026 Forbes 27 $475,000,000 $50,000,000 -$3,000,000 1 2
2026 Sportico 25 $565,000,000 $56,000,000 — 1 2
2025 Forbes 26 $475,000,000 $50,000,000 -$3,000,000 1 2
2025 Sportico 24 $535,000,000 $56,000,000 — 1 2
2024 Forbes 26 $475,000,000 $46,000,000 -$3,000,000 1 2
2024 Sportico 25 $505,000,000 $48,000,000 — 1 2
2023 Forbes 24 $420,000,000 $42,000,000 -$4,000,000 1 2
2022 Sportico 25 $420,000,000 $42,000,000 — 1 2
2021 Sportico 24 $400,000,000 — — 1 2
2019 Forbes 12 $295,000,000 $39,000,000 -$1,000,000 1 2
2018 Forbes 8 $275,000,000 $44,000,000 $1,000,000 1 2
2017 Forbes 5 $272,000,000 $33,000,000 $2,000,000 1 2
2016 Forbes 5 $240,000,000 $36,000,000 $4,000,000 1 2

Estimates, not sale prices. Forbes values the team alone, its revenue and operating income are for the season before the list; Sportico includes the team's real estate and related businesses. Every club's valuations.

Ownership

Orlando City SC joined MLS in 2015 for an expansion fee of $70,000,000, awarded in 2013.

operator from to note sources
Flávio Augusto da Silva 2013 2021 1
Wilf family 2021 present 1
year seller buyer stake price club valued at note sources
2021 Flávio Augusto da Silva Wilf family 100% — $400,000,000 $400M to $450M, with the stadium and the Orlando Pride 1

Every club's ownership, sales and expansion fees.