The contract status of FC Cincinnati players for the 2026 season

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The contract status of FC Cincinnati players for the 2026 season

James Weber, Cincinnati Enquirer · The Enquirer

Tue, Nov 25, 2025 ·

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FC Cincinnati 's season ended Nov. 23 , nine months after its first game that counted, in the Concacaf Champions Cup.

Because the Major League Soccer season lasts so long, the offseason is fast and furious, and the club will soon be making decisions about who to retain for 2026 and who to say goodbye to as Cincinnati looks for new players to join the team.

Cincinnati will lose at least one player to retirement, goalkeeper Alec Kann , who announced that decision last month. The club has 14 players whose contracts expire at the end of 2025 when the team lost to Inter Miami CF in the MLS playoffs. Most of them have options in their contracts for future seasons.

Goalkeeper Alec Kann announced he will retire after this season.

The biggest decisions involve defender Matt Miazga and striker Brenner .

Miazga signed a four-year contract in 2022, which expires at the end of this year and has an option for 2026.

Brenner scored six goals in 10 games after returning to Cincinnati this summer on loan from Italian premier league club Udinese . Cincinnati signed defender Miles Robinson to a contract extension this year that likely makes him the highest-paid defender in MLS and will make the maximum allowed third Designated Player to Evander and Kevin Denkey , who are under contract for next season. If Brenner stays with Cincinnati next year, he can't be a DP. He made $280,000 this season according to the MLS players association.

Based on information released by MLS in September, here is a list of the players who are under contract for 2026 or beyond, and the ones whose contracts have expired.