American Soccer Players in Germany: 2024/25 final update
A healthy number of American nationals are currently on the books of soccer teams in Germany, including USMNT regulars Joe Scally, Gio Reyna, John Tolkin and James Sands. bundesliga.com tracks their performances, week in, week out...
Club: Borussia Mönchengladbach
Position: Full-back
Age: 22 (Born December 31, 2002)
Bundesliga games this season: 32
Starts: 30
2024/25
Now in his fourth full season with Gladbach, Scally continued as Gerardo Seoane's first-choice right-back in 2024/25.
Last matchday
Scally came on as a substitute during his side's 1-0 defeat at home to Wolfsburg on the final day of the season.
Watch: Bundesliga Beyond with Joe Scally
Club: Borussia Dortmund
Position: Attacking midfielder
Age: 22 (born November 13, 2002)
Bundesliga games this season: 16
Starts: 3
Goals: 2
2024/25
Reyna was back at Dortmund after spending the second half of last season on loan at English Premier League outfit Nottingham Forest.
Last matchday
Reyna came off the bench as Dortmunbd secured a Champions League finish (fourth) with their 3-0 win at home to Holstein Kiel on the final day of the season.
Watch: Reyna's best moments in the Bundesliga
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Lennard Maloney
Club: Heidenheim (joined Mainz on 21 January 2025)
Position: Midfielder
Age: 25 (born October 8, 1999)
Bundesliga games this season: 16
Starts: 10
2024/25
Formerly of Dortmund, Maloney quickly became a midfield mainstay and fan favourite at Heidenheim, before switching to Mainz during the January transfer window.
Last matchday
Maloney came off the bench in the final minute of Mainz's 2-2 draw at home to Leverkusen on Matchday 34.
Kevin Paredes
Club: Wolfsburg
Position: Winger
Age: 21 (born May 7, 2003)
Bundesliga games this season: 2
Starts: 2
2024/25
Paredes scored three goals in 28 Bundesliga appearances for Wolfsburg in 2023/24, but missed the start of the new campaign with a foot problem. He made his first appearance of the campaign on Matchday 30.
Last matchday
Another injury, albeit minor in comparison to his foot issue, kept him out of the 1-0 win over Borussia Mönchengladbach on the final day of the season.
James Sands
Club: St. Pauli
Position: Midfielder
Age: 24 (born 6 July, 2000)
Bundesliga games this season: 7
Starts: 4
2024/25
After two shorts stints with Rangers in Scotland, Sands made his third trip abroad on a temporary basis from New York City FC in January. His presence gave Alexander Blessin another option as the Kiezkickers looked - and managed - to beat the drop.
Last matchday
Sands suffered a serious ankle injury on Matchday 22 against Freiburg and has been ruled out for an indefinite period of time.
John Tolkin
Club: Holstein Kiel
Position: Full-back
Age: 22 (born July 31, 2003)
Bundesliga games this season: 11
Starts: 9
Having played four seasons for New York Red Bulls, and being named an MLS All-Star in 2023, the left-back who goes by the name JMi switched to Kiel in January 2025 with the newly promoted side locked in a battle to retain their Bundesliga status.
Last matchday
Tolkin started and played all 90 minutes as Kiel, already relegated, fell to a 3-0 defeat to Dortmund on the final day of the season.
Cole Campbell
Club: Dortmund
Position: Midfielder
Age: 18 (born 20 February, 2006)
Bundesliga games this season: 4
Starts: 0
2024/25
Born in Houston, Texas, Campbell joined the BVB youth academy in July 2022. He was promoted to the first-team squad in summer 2024 and after being an unused substitute on Bundesliga Matchdays 6 and 7 - as well as away to Real Madrid in the Champions League - he made his debut on Matchday 8.
Last matchday
Suffering from a ligament injury sustained in early March, Campbell was not included in the Dortmund squad for the 3-0 final-day win over Kiel that secured a fourth-placed finish - and Champions League football in 2025/26.
Noahkai Banks
Club: Augsburg
Position: Defender
Age: 18 (born 1 December 2006)
Bundesliga game this season: 8
Starts: 2
2024/25
Having joined Augsburg in 2015, Banks was first included in the Augsburg first-team squad against Freiburg in October. He had to wait three months for his first appearance, but he figured in coach Jess Thorup's plans after that and turned in some solid performances for his age.
Last matchday
Despite having regained fitness after a thigh problem kept him out of action for three weeks, Banks was an unused substitute as Augsburg fell 2-1 to Union Berlin on the final day of the season.
Timothy Chandler
Club: Eintracht Frankfurt
Position: Full-back
Age: 35 (born 29 March, 1990)
Bundesliga games this season: 3
Starts: 0
2024/25
Chandler is in his 11th - and possibly final - season with Frankfurt. A bit-part player last term, the veteran full-back's existing contract expires in summer 2025.
Last matchday
Chandler was an unused substitute in Frankfurt's 3-1 win in Freiburg on Matchday 34.
Club: Union Berlin (left to join Reims in winter window)
Position: Forward
Age: 28 (born April 26, 1996)
Bundesliga games this season: 18
Starts: 10
2024/25
Jordan scored seven goals in 27 competitive appearances whilst on loan at Gladbach last season, and returned briefly to Union before making a permanent switch back to boyhood club Reims in France in the January transfer window.
Last matchday
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Paxten Aaronson
Club: Eintracht Frankfurt (on loan at Utrecht)
Position: Attacking midfielder
Age: 21 (born August 26, 2003)
Bundesliga games this season: -
Starts: -
2024/25
After a successful loan to Vitesse Arnhem during the second half of 2023/24, Frankfurt's Aaronson is spending the current campaign at Utrecht, also of the Dutch Eredivisie.
Watch: Paxten Aaronson - Frankfurt's US prospect
Americans in Bundesliga 2
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Damion Downs (Cologne)
Johan Gómez (Eintracht Braunschweig)
Julian Green (Greuther Fürth)
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