MLS All-Star rosters 2025: Lionel Messi, seven USMNT team players highlight squad
The MLS All-Stars will face a team of All-Stars from Mexico's Liga MX on July 23 at 9 p.m. ET at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas, broadcast on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.
The USMNT's Patrick Agyemang, Max Arfsten, Sebastian Berhalter, Alex Freeman, Diego Luna, Miles Robinson, and Brian White will represent their MLS clubs in the showcase.
Canada national team goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair and Mexican National Team forward Hirving "Chucky" Lozano are also on the MLS team.
The Western Conference-leading Vancouver Whitecaps will have four All-Stars in Berhalter, White, defender Tristan Blackmon and goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka.
San Diego FC, second in the West as MLS' newest club, will have three All-Stars: Lozano, Anders Dreyer and Jeppe Tverskov.
Agyemang and Lozano were selected by MLS commissioner Don Garber to be All-Stars.
Austin FC coach Nico Estévez, who is leading the MLS All-Star team, designated 12 players to be All-Stars, while 12 others were voted through a combination of fan, player, and media voting.
Columbus Crew's Diego Rossi will make his fourth appearance (2019, 2021, 2024-25), while LAFC's Denis Bouanga (2023-25), Philadelphia Union's Jakob Glesnes (2022-23, 2025) and FC Cincinnati's Miles Robinson (2021, 2024-25) have been named MLS All-Stars for the third time.
Messi, the Inter Miami star, and his teammate Jordi Alba were named MLS All-Stars for the second straight season. Alba played in the match last year with midfielder Sergio Busquets, while Messi and Luis Suarez did not participate in the showcase.
Messi, 36, and Alba, 36, are the oldest players on the MLS All-Star roster, which features six players aged 24 years old and younger.
Of the 26 players selected, 16 players are first-time All-Stars.
2025 MLS All-Star roster by position and selection mechanism:
GOALKEEPERS (3)
DEFENDERS (8)
MIDFIELDERS (6)
FORWARDS / WINGERS (9)
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