FC Cincinnati’s depth at the goalkeeper position will remain an area of strength through the 2025 season. Alec Kann’s presence next season via a soon-to-be-announced contract extension guarantees that.
FC Cincinnati is expected this week to announce the one-year extension for Kann, an MLS official confirmed to The Enquirer on Tuesday. Kann’s time with Cincinnati was set to expire at the end of the 2024 season, but the extension will take one of the club’s leaders on and off the field into a fourth year with FC Cincinnati.
The extension comes during a 2024 season in which Kann has enjoyed his most regular-season action since 2022. After spending preseason and the early weeks of the regular-season recovering from an offseason surgery, Kann made three regular-season starts for FC Cincinnati.
FC Cincinnati had already extended the contracts of goalkeepers Roman Celentano (2027), Evan Louro (2025), and Paul Walters (2026). With Kann, FCC maintains one of the strongest goalkeeping groups in all of MLS.
Kann has logged 270 minutes in MLS play this year compared against just 90 in all of 2023, although Kann was the featured goalkeeper during cup play in 2023.
The contract extension also keeps in place one of FC Cincinnati’s most professional, stoic, and generally important leaders, as well as an active member of the club in terms of community service.
Kann arrived to FC Cincinnati in 2022 under General Manager Chris Albright. Kann was expected to be FC Cincinnati’s primary starter in goal after years of playing behind Brad Guzan in Atlanta, but more than that, Kann was expected to help
Kann did just that, leading FC Cincinnati to a surprisingly strong start in 2022 prior to suffering an injury that would see Celentano overtake him for the starting goalkeeping job.
