San Diego FC
The money at San Diego FC: 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 | 29 | $24,391,009 | Hirving Lozano | $9,333,333 |
| 2025 | 30 | $22,254,055 | Hirving Lozano | $7,633,333 |
| 2024 | 2 | $1,020,095 | Paddy McNair | $762,803 |
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.
Against the salary budget
| season | payroll | salary budget | over the budget | times the budget | above the maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $24,391,009 | $6,425,000 | $17,966,009 | 3.8× | 6 |
| 2025 | $22,254,055 | $5,950,000 | $16,304,055 | 3.7× | 8 |
Payroll is every player's guaranteed pay; the salary budget is the cap from that season's rules. Above the maximum counts the players paid more than the maximum budget charge: its Designated Players and those bought down with allocation money.
Transfers
| season | player | from | to | move | fee | up to | kind | reported | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Luca Bombino | San Diego FC | Stoke City | out | $5M | — | cash | 1 | |
| 2026 | Luca Bombino | Los Angeles FC | San Diego FC | within MLS | — | $1.1M | allocation money | 1 | |
| 2025 | Hirving Lozano | PSV Eindhoven | San Diego FC | in | $12M | — | cash | 1 | |
| 2025 | Anders Dreyer | RSC Anderlecht | San Diego FC | in | $5M | — | cash | 1 |
Fees paid and received, as reported; nearly all are press estimates. Every transfer on record.
Coaches and front office
Head coaches
Click or tap a bar to see the coach and their dates.
| name | from | to | years | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mikey Varas | Sep 16, 2024 | now | 2.1 | 1 2 3 |
| Mikey Varas | Sep 16, 2024 | now | 2.1 | 1 2 3 |
Running the soccer side
| name | title | from | to | years | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyler Heaps | Sporting Director and General Manager | Aug 2024 | now | 2.2 | 1 2 3 |
| Tyler Heaps | Sporting Director and General Manager | Aug 2024 | now | 2.2 | 1 2 3 |
The club's top soccer executive, under whatever title the club gave the job.
Assistant coaches
| name | title | from | to | years | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Hjortebjerg | Assistant Coach | Dec 18, 2024 | now | 1.8 | 1 |
| Frank Hjortebjerg | Assistant Coach | Dec 18, 2024 | now | 1.8 | 1 |
| Kelvin Jones | Assistant Coach | Dec 18, 2024 | now | 1.8 | 1 |
| Kelvin Jones | Assistant Coach | Dec 18, 2024 | now | 1.8 | 1 |
| Luciano Fusco | Assistant Coach | Dec 18, 2024 | now | 1.8 | 1 |
| Luciano Fusco | Assistant Coach | Dec 18, 2024 | now | 1.8 | 1 |
First-team assistants where a report names them; the record is thinner the further back it goes.
Value & ownership
Valuations
Click or tap a mark to see what it is.
| season | publisher | rank | value | revenue | operating income | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Forbes | 10 | $795,000,000 | $93,000,000 | -$5,000,000 | 1 2 |
| 2026 | Sportico | 10 | $765,000,000 | $107,000,000 | — | 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
San Diego FC joined MLS in 2025 for an expansion fee of $500,000,000, awarded in 2023.
| league | operator | from | to | note | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MLS | Mohamed Mansour and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation | 2023 | present | 1 |
Owner's net worth
| owner | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 | sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Mansour (with the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation) | $3.6B | $3.3B | $3.4B | $4B | 1 2 3 |
Net worth as Forbes estimated it for its billionaires list each spring. An owner left off a year's list fell below a billion, or was not counted; owners never on it, like most of the league's, are not here. A family's fortune is listed under the member Forbes names.