This year's MLS season begins on Saturday, with the shifting landscape of U.S. Soccer continuing to swirl all around it.

While organizations continue to plow money into the academies, it remains a tricky task for domestic teenagers to make the jump from an academy to a first-team setting. MLS NEXT Pro remains a work in progress in that regard as well.

As is tradition, TDS is revealing its Top 50 prospects to watch for in the league. To be eligible, players must be born on January 1, 2005 or after. They must have played fewer than 3,000 league minutes, and must be under contract with MLS (not Next Pro and not on loan). Along with that, players must be eligible for the United State, Mexico and Canada. Rankings are an attempt to project top, up-and-coming talent in the league. It's an attempt to also balance a players near-term impact and long term future.

Top 50 Rankings: Nos. 41-50 | 31-40 | 21-30 | 11-20 | 1-10

Links will be added each day throughout the week, leading up to the 2025 season beginning on February 22.

Others Considered: Owen Anderson (Real Salt Lake), Jacob Arroyave (NYCFC), Cody Baker (Seattle Sounders FC), Micah Burton (Austin FC), Matthew Corcoran (Nashville SC), Zavier Gozo (Real Salt Lake), Tyler Hall (Inter Miami CF), Aiden Hezarkhani (Real Salt Lake), Stiven Jimenez (FC Cincinnati), Isaiah Jones (Nashville SC), MyKhi Joyner (St. Louis City SC), Sawyer Jura (Portland Timbers FC), Edwyn Mendoza (San Jose Earthquakes), Jack Neeley (Charlotte FC), Sergio Oregel (Chicago Fire), Tyson Pearce (St. Louis City SC), Brian Romero (Charlotte FC), Alejandro Urzua (FC Dallas), Jude Wellings (Real Salt Lake), Adrian Wibowo (LAFC)

2025 Top 50 MLS Prospects

Davi Alexandre
Chris Applewhite
Drew Baiera
Reed Baker-Whiting
Jacob Bartlett
Adam Beaudry
Nimfasha Berchimas
Luca Bombino
Dylan Borso
Luke Brennan
Noel Buck
Maximo Carrizo
Stefan Chirila
Noah Cobb
Chance Cowell
Caden Glover
Colin Guske
Taha Habroune
Julian Hall
Stuart Hawkins
Ian James
Cruz Medina
Adri Mehmeti
Harbor Miller
Peyton Miller
Santiago Morales
Cole Mrowka
Serge Ngoma
Nolan Norris
Christopher (CJ) Olney Jr.
Adam Pearlman
Neil Pierre
Ruben Ramos Jr.
Brooklyn Raines
Tahir Reid-Brown
Andrew Rick
Tanner Rosborough
Anisse Saidi
Jonathan Shore
Adem Sipic
Kaedren Spivey
Kimani Stewart-Baynes
Aidan Stokes
Cavan Sullivan
Jude Terry
Adyn Torres
Niko Tsakiris
Robert Turdean
David Vazquez
Oscar Verhoeven

Previous editions: 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017

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