Orlando City (4-2-6, 18 points) vs Charlotte FC (6-5-1, 19 points)
When: Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Inter&Co Stadium, Orlando, Fla.
Attend: Single-Match Tickets
TV: MLS Season Pass on Apple TV (subscription required)
Radio: AM 810 Fox Sports Radio, (English), Mega 97.1 (Spanish)
Everything you need to know for the Lions' home match vs Charlotte FC in "The Road Ahead" driven by Audi:
Milestones
- Orlando City is on a ten-game unbeaten run, the second-longest in club history. Orlando is two games away from matching the club-record 12-game unbeaten streak from the 2020 season. As of Wednesday, Orlando will have gone 67 days without a defeat.
- After his hat trick this past Saturday night against the New England Revolution, Martín Ojeda ranks ninth in Orlando City history with 20 goals in all competitions. Ojeda’s next goal will tie him with Tesho Akindele in eighth, and the Argentine is two away from catching Chris Mueller in seventh.
- Iván Angulo is two games away from appearing in 100 consecutive MLS matches (regular season and playoffs) for Orlando City.
Stats & Storylines
- Martín Ojeda made Orlando City history this past Saturday night, scoring the club’s first-ever home hat trick in the MLS era and its first in any competitive game since Cyle Larin did it on September 25, 2015. Ojeda is now up to 7 G/4 A in 13 appearances in all competitions this season.
- Ojeda’s hat trick brings him within one goal of the MLS Golden Boot lead, currently shared by four players (Vancouver’s Brian White, San Jose’s Chicho Arango, Philadelphia’s Tai Baribo, and Chicago’s Hugo Cuypers). Ojeda is one of six players with at least ten goal contributions in MLS regular season play this year.
- Rookie midfielder Joran Gerbet notched his first professional goal contribution assisting Ojeda’s second goal. Gerbet went straight back into Oscar Pareja’s starting XI after missing the past two MLS matchdays with a lower leg injury.
-Orlando City as a team has scored 14 goals over its last five home matches and has won or drawn all five games. The Lions have scored three or more goals in 13 of their last 28 regular-season contests dating back to June 2024, failing to win for just the second time in those 13 games last weekend.
- On the other end of the field, Orlando City’s club-record shutout streak ended at 653 minutes when Alhassan Yusuf scored for New England. Pedro Gallese’s personal streak ended at 563 minutes, the sixth-longest of any goalkeeper in MLS history.
- Things you could do in the span of time between Orlando City’s last goal conceded and Yusuf’s streak breaker:
- Watch each of the first four Harry Potter movies with credits and a ten-minute bathroom and snack break between films
- Drive the 738 miles from Orlando to Richmond, VA
- Binge the entire second season of Andor in one sitting
- Fly direct from Orlando to Madrid, Spain
Series History
All-time vs. Charlotte FC - 4-2-4, +4 GD (3-1-1, +4 GD home)
MLS only vs. Charlotte FC - 3-1-2, +3 GD (2-1-0, +2 GD home)
2022 - W 2-1 (H), W 1-2 (A)
2023 - L 1-2 (H), L 1-0 (A/USOC), D 1-1 (A)
2024 - D 2-2 (A), W 2-0 (H), W 2-0 (H/MLS Cup Playoffs), D 0-0 (A/MLS Cup Playoffs), D 1-1 (H/MLS Cup Playoffs)
Meet the opponent: Charlotte FC
- Orlando City and Charlotte FC meet on Wednesday for the first time since their dramatic MLS Cup Playoffs First Round Best of Three series last fall, in which Orlando snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in the last moments of the decisive third match. Down 1-0 deep in second-half stoppage time, Duncan McGuire drew a penalty on Charlotte midfielder Djibril Diani to give the Lions life. After a lengthy review, Facundo Torres converted the spot kick and Orlando would go on to win and advance in a penalty shootout.
- McGuire, who would go on to have offseason surgery to repair a shoulder he injured drawing that season-saving penalty, has enjoyed success against Charlotte in his career, notching 2 G/1 A in four regular-season appearances. Martín Ojeda has 3 G/1 A against Charlotte for his career, including playoffs.
- After a strong 6-2-1 start to the season, Charlotte has hit a rough patch with three straight losses, the last of which came this past weekend in Nashville. The normally staunch Charlotte defense has conceded six goals over its past two matches.
- Charlotte’s big offseason signing, longtime Crystal Palace winger Wilfried Zaha, has had a so-so start to life in MLS, scoring just three goals across ten appearances thus far. After missing the opener, Zaha has started all but one of the past eleven matches for the Crown, subbing off just once (in second-half stoppage time against Nashville on April 5).
- While Charlotte has scored a respectable 19 goals through 12 matches this season, the scoring has been spread throughout the roster, with winger Liel Abada leading the side on just four goals. Their top contributor so far has been attacking midfielder Pep Biel, a DP in 2024 who returned in 2025 as a TAM player and has rewarded the Crown with 3 G/6 A through 11 appearances this season.
