Pre-season

Austin FC ended the 2023 season with multiple players at the end of their contract. The front office made their first move by signing Ethan Finlay to a new one-year contract with an option for a second year at the end of October.^[6] In addition to working on their roster Austin FC started making plans for their 2024 pre-season, announcing they would participate in the AEG sponsored Coachella Valley Invitational taking place February 4–17, 2024.^[7] In mid-November 2023, Austin FC announced their initial roster changes for the 2024 season. Alexander Ring met his performance metrics and his contract was extended automatically through the 2024 season. Both Daniel Perreira's and Damian Las's options were exercised for 2024. Charlie Asensio, Will Bruin, Sofiane Djeffal, Kipp Keller, Adam Lundqvist, Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez, Rodney Redes, Memo Rodriguez, and Maximiliano Urruti options were all declined. Brandan Craig will return to the Philadelphia Union at the end of his loan.^[8]

Austin started the month of December, by announcing they had exercised Hector Jiménez option for the 2024 season.^[9] On December 11, 2023, Austin FC traded Nick Lima to the New England Revolution for $300,000 in GAM.^[10] On December 14, Austin traded up for the first pick in the 2023 MLS Re-Entry Draft^[11] and subsequently picked Jáder Obrian, who had previously played for FC Dallas.^[12] On December 19, 2023, Austin FC chose Nate Jones from University of Washington with the 5th overall pick,^[13] and subsequently traded him for $250,000 GAM and the 31st pick. Austin FC then picked Bryant Farkarlun from UT Rio Grande Valley with that pick.^[14] Austin FC signed Stefan Cleveland on December 24, 2023, as a free agent, bringing the roster up to four goalkeepers.^[15]

On January 9, 2024, Austin FC announced they had traded Jhohan Romaña to the Argentine team San Lorenzo de Almagro^[16] for $750,000.^[17] The same day the team announced they had signed defender Guilherme Biro as a free agent. Biro spent the previous season with Brazilian team Mirassol.^[18] On January 10, Austin FC announced the signing of their second homegrown player, Micah Burton. Burton was signed to Austin FC II for the 2023 MLS Next Pro season and has multiple appearances with the United States men's national under-17 soccer team.^[19] The team reported for pre-season on January 13, 2024, and announced that Sebastián Driussi had obtained his green card and no longer would occupy an international spot on the roster.^[20] On January 29, 2024, Austin FC announced they has signed Damian Las to new contract through the 2026 season, with an optional additional year. Austin FC also announced that Las would be loaned to Louisville City FC for the 2024 season.^[21]

Austin FC started February off by adding another player to the roster when they announced the signing of Striker Diego Rubio as a free agent to a one year contract, with an option for a second.^[22] On February 14 Austin FC announced that they had signed free agend defender Brendan Hines-Ike. Hines-Ike spent the last two seasons with D.C. United.^[23]

February/March

Austin FC started the 2024 MLS season in the same manner they ended the 2023 season, with a poor first half, Austin dropped their first game to Minnesota United FC 2–1, with Guilherme Biro scoring a stoppage time goal.^[24] On March 2, prior to their match against Seattle Sounders FC, Austin announced they had signed defender Salvatore Mazzaferro, defender Antonio Gomez, and midfielder Valentin Noël to a short term agreement.^[25] In their second game of the season, Austin continued to struggle offensively, being outshot by the Sounders 9–0 in the first half, but stood strong defensively, earning a 0–0 draw.^[26] On March 8, Austin FC announced they had signed defender Antonio Gomez to his second short-term agreement and Jimmy Farkarlun to his first short term agreement prior to the March 9 game against St. Louis City SC.^[27] Returning to Q2 Stadium for their second home match of the season, Austin FC gave up a stoppage time goal letting St. Louis City SC tie up the game at 2–2, earning the draw.^[28] Austin remained winless through the first four games of the season, earning a third draw against Philadelphia Union, with a 2–2 result that saw the return of Sebastian Driussi to the pitch.^[29] Austin remained winless five matchees into the season after suffering a 2–0 loss to Orlando City SC in a game that only saw four shots, one of which is on goal.^[30]

April/May

On April 6, Austin FC earned their second win of the season in a high scoring 4–3 win over San Jose Earthquakeson a stoppage time goal from Sebastián Driussi.^[31] On April 14, Austin fell to St. Louis City SC 1–0 on the road.^[32] On April 20, 2024, Austin got their first road win of the season on their first road goal of the season, beating Houston Dynamo 1–0 on an 86th minute goal by Emiliano Rigoni.^[33] On April 26, Austin FC announced they had extended Žan Kolmanič's contract throught the 2025 season with an club–option for 2026.^[34] Austin FC ended the month of April by shutting out LA Galaxy 2–0 at home on two first half goals, one from Diego Rubio, and one from Jáder Obrian.^[35]

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Date	Position	No.	Name	From	Fee	Ref.
December 24, 2023	GK	30	Stefan Cleveland	Seattle Sounders FC	Free Agent	[15]
January 9, 2024	DF	29	Guilherme Biro	Mirassol	Free Agent	[18]
January 10, 2024	MF	32	Micah Burton	Austin FC II	Free	[19]
February 5, 2024	FW	14	Diego Rubio	Colorado Rapids	Free	[22]
February 14, 2024	DF	4	Brendan Hines-Ike	D.C. United	Free	[23]

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No.	Pos.	Player	Loaned from	Start	End	Source
	DF	Salvatore Mazzaferro	Austin FC II	March 2, 2024	March 5, 2024	[25]
	MF	Valentin Noël	Austin FC II	March 2, 2024	March 5, 2024	[25]
	DF	Antonio Gomez	Austin FC II	March 2, 2024 March 8, 2024 March 22, 2024	March 5, 2024 March 11, 2024 March 25, 2024	[25] [27] [40]
26	WG	Jimmy Farkarlun	Austin FC II	March 8, 2024 March 15, 2024 March 22, 2024	March 11, 2024 March 18, 2024 March 25, 2024	[27] [41] [40]

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Date	Position	No.	Name	To	Type	Fee	Ref.
November 17, 2023	DF	26	Charlie Asensio	Orange County SC	Declined contract option	N/A	[8][42]
	FW	29	Will Bruin	Retired	Declined contract option	N/A	[8][43]
	MF	22	Sofiane Djeffal	Orange County SC	Declined contract option	N/A	[8][44]
	DF	4	Kipp Keller	FC Cincinnati	Declined contract option	N/A	[8][45]
	DF	21	Adam Lundqvist	BK Häcken	Declined contract option	N/A	[8][46]
	FW	28	Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez		Declined contract option	N/A	[8]
	FW	11	Rodney Redes	Club Olimpia	Declined contract option	N/A	[8][47]
	MF	30	Memo Rodríguez	Sporting Kansas City	Declined contract option	N/A	[8][48]
	FW	37	Maximiliano Urruti	Platense	Declined contract option	N/A	[8][49]
	DF	27	Brandan Craig	Philadelphia Union	Loan expiration	N/A	[8]
December 11, 2023	DF	24	Nick Lima	New England Revolution	Trade	$300,000 in 2024 GAM	[10]
January 9, 2024	DF	3	Jhohan Romaña	San Lorenzo de Almagro	Trade	$750,000[17]	[16]

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No.	Pos.	Player	Loaned to	Start	End	Source
2	FW	Moussa Djitté	Bandırmaspor	July 3, 2023	June 30, 2024	[50]
12	GK	Damian Las	Louisville City FC	February 3, 2024	December 31, 2024	[21]
32	MF	Micah Burton	Austin FC II	March 14, 2024	December 31, 2024	[51]
19	MF	CJ Fodrey	Austin FC II	March 14, 2024	December 31, 2024	[51]

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MLS Re-Entry Draft picks

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2024 Austin FC SuperDraft Picks
Round	Selection	Player	Position	Team	Notes	Ref.
1	1	Jáder Obrian	FW	FC Dallas	Pick received from Toronto FC	[11][12]
2	5 (34)	None

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MLS SuperDraft picks

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2024 Austin FC SuperDraft Picks
Round	Selection	Player	Position	College	Notes	Ref.
1	5	Nate Jones	DF	University of Washington	Traded to Colorado Rapids for $250,000 and the 31st Pick	[13]
2	2 (31)	Bryant Farkarlun	MF	UT Rio Grande Valley	Signed to three-year contract with Austin FC II	[14][52]
2	5 (34)	N/A			Traded to Colorado Rapids	[13]
3	5 (63)	N/A			Traded to Philadelphia Union	[53]

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New contracts

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Date	Pos.	No.	Player	Contract until	Ref.
October 31, 2023	MF	13	Ethan Finlay	2024 + 1yr option	[6]
January 29, 2024	GK	12	Damian Las	2026 + 1yr option	[21]
April 26, 2024	DF	23	Žan Kolmanič	2024 + 1yr option	[34]

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Preseason

Austin FC v Philadelphia Union

January 23	Austin FC	1–1	Philadelphia Union	St. Petersburg, Florida
5:30 pm CST	Pereira 54'	Report	Carranza 37'	Stadium: Al Lang Stadium

Overall record

Major League Soccer Regular Season

MLS Playoffs

U.S. Open Cup

Austin FC II represented the club in the 2024 U.S. Open Cup based on a deal reached between U.S. Soccer and MLS.^[54]

Leagues Cup

West 1

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PW	PL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		MTY	UNM	AUS
1	Monterrey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advance to knockout stage		—	Aug 3	Jul 30
2	UNAM	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			—	—	Jul 26
3	Austin FC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0			—	—	—

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First match(es) will be played: July 26, 2024. Source: Leagues Cup
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

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Matchday	Date	Opponent	Venue	Location	Result[lower-alpha 1]	Scorers	Attendance	Referee	Position
Group Stage	July 26	UNAM	Q2 Stadium	Austin, Texas
Group Stage	July 30	Monterrey	Q2 Stadium	Austin, Texas

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Appearances and goals

Numbers after plus–sign (+) denote appearances as a substitute.

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No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		MLS		MLS Cup		Other[lower-alpha 2]
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	USA	Brad Stuver	10	0	10+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
2	DF	USA	Matt Hedges	7	1	6+1	1	0+0	0	0+0	0
4	DF	USA	Brendan Hines-Ike	7	0	6+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
5	MF	COL	Jhojan Valencia	7	0	4+3	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
6	MF	VEN	Daniel Pereira	9	0	8+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
7	FW	ARG	Emiliano Rigoni	8	1	4+4	1	0+0	0	0+0	0
8	MF	FIN	Alexander Ring	10	0	10+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
9	FW	USA	Gyasi Zardes	10	0	2+8	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
10	MF	ARG	Sebastián Driussi	7	2	6+1	2	0+0	0	0+0	0
11	FW	COL	Jáder Obrian	10	2	9+1	2	0+0	0	0+0	0
13	MF	USA	Ethan Finlay	7	0	4+3	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
14	FW	CHI	Diego Rubio	10	3	9+1	3	0+0	0	0+0	0
15	DF	FIN	Leo Väisänen	1	0	1+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
16	DF	USA	Hector Jiménez	4	0	2+2	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
17	FW	IRL	Jon Gallagher	10	1	10+0	1	0+0	0	0+0	0
18	DF	CRC	Julio Cascante	8	2	7+1	2	0+0	0	0+0	0
19	MF	USA	CJ Fodrey	1	0	0+1	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
20	GK	USA	Matt Bersano	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
23	DF	SVN	Žan Kolmanič	5	0	3+2	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
26	FW	LBR	Jimmy Farkarlun	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
29	DF	BRA	Guilherme Biro	10	2	5+5	2	0+0	0	0+0	0
30	GK	USA	Stefan Cleveland	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
31	MF	FRA	Valentin Noël	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
32	MF	USA	Micah Burton	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
33	MF	USA	Owen Wolff	9	0	4+5	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
	DF	CAN	Salvatore Mazzaferro	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0
	DF	USA	Antonio Gomez	0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0	0+0	0

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Top scorers

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Rank	Position	Number	Name	MLS	MLS Cup	Other[lower-alpha 1]	Total
1	FW	14	Diego Rubio	3	0	0	3
2	MF	10	Sebastián Driussi	2	0	0	2
	FW	11	Jáder Obrian	2	0	0
	DF	18	Julio Cascante	2	0	0
	DF	29	Guilherme Biro	2	0	0
5	DF	2	Matt Hedges	1	0	0	1
	MF	7	Emiliano Rigoni	1	0	0
	DF	17	Jon Gallagher	1	0	0
Total				14	0	0	14

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Top assists

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Rank	Position	Number	Name	MLS	MLS Cup	Other[lower-alpha 1]	Total
1	MF	8	Alexander Ring	4	0	0	4
2	DF	11	Jáder Obrian	2	0	0	2
	DF	16	Hector Jiménez	2	0	0
	DF	17	Jon Gallagher	2	0	0
	MF	33	Owen Wolff	2	0	0
4	FW	9	Gyasi Zardes	1	0	0	1
	MF	10	Sebastián Driussi	1	0	0
	MF	19	CJ Fodrey	1	0	0
	DF	23	Žan Kolmanič	1	0	0
Total				16	0	0	16

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Clean sheets

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Rank	Number	Name	MLS	Playoffs	Leagues Cup	Total
1	1	Brad Stuver	3	0	0	3

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Disciplinary record

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No.	Pos.	Player	MLS			Other			Total
1	GK	Brad Stuver	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
2	DF	Matt Hedges	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	Brendan Hines-Ike	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	MF	Jhojan Valencia	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
6	MF	Daniel Pereira	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
7	FW	Emiliano Rigoni	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	MF	Alexander Ring	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
9	FW	Gyasi Zardes	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
10	MF	Sebastián Driussi	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
11	FW	Jáder Obrian	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
13	MF	Ethan Finlay	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	FW	Diego Rubio	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
15	DF	Leo Väisänen	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
16	CB	Hector Jiménez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	DF	Jon Gallagher	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
18	CB	Julio Cascante	5	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
19	MF	CJ Fodrey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	GK	Matt Bersano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	LB	Žan Kolmanič	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
26	WG	Jimmy Farkarlun	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
29	DF	Guilherme Biro	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
30	GK	Stefan Cleveland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	MF	Valentin Noël	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	MF	Micah Burton	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	MF	Owen Wolff	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	DF	Salvatore Mazzaferro	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	DF	Antonio Gomez	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total			24	0	0	0	0	0	24	0	0

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MLS Team of the Matchday

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Matchday	Player	Opponent	Position	Ref
3	Jhojan Valencia	Seattle Sounders FC	Bench	[55]
5	Jon Gallagher	Philadelphia Union	DF	[56]
7	Julio Cascante	FC Dallas	DF	[57]
8	Sebastián Driussi	San Jose Earthquakes	MF	[58]
10	Brad Stuver	Houston Dynamo FC	Bench	[59]

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