Where we left off last year
2025 season: 32 points, 12th in the Eastern Conference, 25th in MLS
It was always going to be an ugly year for Toronto FC, wasn’t it? With a slew of underperforming players on bad contracts set to expire at the end of the season, Toronto took their medicine in 2025. They missed the playoffs by a mile but stayed on the straight and narrow path towards sweet, sweet cap space. Some earlier-than-expected welcome news came when Lorenzo Insigne and Federico Bernardeschi were ditched in the summer, followed shortly by a big-money cashfer that brought Djordje Mihailovic to town.
With the fewest returning minutes of any team in MLS (just 49%, according to Eliot Mckinley), this year’s version of Toronto FC will look very, very different from the one that began last season.
What changed in the offseason
Notable arrivals:
- Walker Zimmerman, W: Two things can be true when it comes to Zimmerman landing in Toronto. First: he’s unlikely to play more than 2,000 minutes this year (or in any future year). Due to injuries, the 32-year-old hasn’t hit that mark since 2022. For that reason, Nashville were probably right to avoid re-signing him. Second: he’s going to be a major upgrade in the back for Robin Fraser’s team. With Sigurd Rosted and Kevin Long, both below-average starters, eating up most of the minutes at center back last year, Zimmerman’s well-rounded skillset makes him an obvious improvement.
