- Source: 2025 San Diego Wave FC season
The 2025 season will be the fourth for San Diego Wave FC, a professional women's soccer team based in San Diego, California, United States. San Diego Wave FC plays in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top tier of Women's soccer in the United States.
Background
At the start of 2024, the Wave kicked off the season on a positive note, winning the 2024 NWSL Challenge Cup 1–0 over 2023 champion NJ/NY Gotham FC. However, the Wave failed to replicate their successes from 2022 and 2023, failing to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in club history and finishing in 10th place overall. The team was also knocked out during the group stages of both the 2024 NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup and the 2024–25 CONCACAF W Champions Cup. The Wave also underwent several coaching changes, firing Casey Stoney after a poor run of form and replacing her with interim coaches Paul Buckle and later, Landon Donovan. Donovan was announced in the offseason to not be returning for 2025, leaving the head coach role vacant.
2024 also featured a large amount of off-the-field changes. Ron Burkle sold the team to new owners Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman at a record-breaking fee of $113 million. Camille Levin Ashton came in as general manager, replacing former GM Molly Downtain. In December 2024, president Jill Ellis left her role at the Wave to join FIFA as chief football officer. Ellis and the club had previously been accused by former Wave employees of fostering an abusive workplace environment, a claim which Ellis had refuted. Five former employees later filed a lawsuit against the Wave and the NWSL, alleging discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and retaliation.
Team
= Current squad
=As of December 14, 2024
Competitions
Win
Draw
Loss
= Friendlies
=Wave FC will open the 2025 preseason at the Coachella Valley Invitational.
= Regular season
=Regular-season standings
Results summary
= Results by matchday =
Squad statistics
As of
= Appearances and goals
== Goals
== Assists
== Shutouts
== Disciplinary record
=Awards
= NWSL monthly awards
=Best XI of the Month
= NWSL weekly awards
=Goal of the Week
Save of the Week
Transactions
For incoming transfers, dates listed are when San Diego Wave FC officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For outgoing transfers, dates listed are when San Diego Wave FC officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another team. If a player later signed with another team, their new team will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when she was officially removed from the San Diego Wave FC roster.