Atlanta United announced the signing of goalkeeper Lucas Hoyos on a free transfer to a contract through the 2026 season with options for the 2027 and 2027-28 seasons on Dec. 23, 2025. Hoyos, who spent the previous three seasons with Argentine club Newell’s Old Boys, will occupy an international roster spot.
Hoyos, 36, has made 341 career appearances and recorded 135 clean sheets across all competitions, including the Argentine first and second divisions, Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana while wearing the captain’s armband for Vélez Sarsfield and Newell’s Old Boys. He joins Atlanta after spending the last three seasons with Newell’s, the club where he progressed through the academy before making his first division debut in 2014. The goalkeeper made 63 appearances in all competitions from 2023-2025, including seven appearances in the 2023 Copa Sudamericana where Newell’s advanced to the Round of 16.
The Argentine made 137 appearances and kept 53 clean sheets in all competitions for Vélez Sarsfield from 2018-2022, including 19 appearances in Copa Libertadores and four appearances in Copa Sudamericana. Hoyos started 13 matches during the second half of the 2018-2019 Superliga season and then started 19 matches during the 2019-2020 Superliga campaign as Vélez finished in third place in the league table and advanced to the semifinals of the 2020 Copa Sudamericana. The following season, he made 24 starts as Vélez finished fifth in the league and advanced to 2021 Copa Libertadores Round of 16. During the 2022 season, he made a combined 43 appearances in all competitions and helped lead Vélez to the semifinals of the 2022 Copa Libertadores.
After progressing through the youth ranks at Newell’s, Hoyos went on loan to second division side Gimnasia y Esgrima from 2012-2014 where he kept 12 clean sheets in 21 appearances. He briefly returned to Newell’s where he made his first division debut in 2014 before transferring to Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba where he made 66 appearances in all competitions from 2015-2016 for the second division side. The following season, Hoyos made the move back to the first division with Atlético de Rafaela and made 26 appearances. He returned to Instituto for the 2017-2018 season and made another 26 appearances for the club before a move back to the first division with Vélez.
