Alex Morgan’s iconic number 13 jersey to be retired by the San Diego Wave, after USWNT star’s 2024 retirement

San Diego Wave FC will honor former membership striker and U.S. ladies’s nationwide workforce ahead Alex Morgan with a jersey retirement ceremony, the workforce introduced. The membership will honor her iconic No. 13 jersey and make her the primary participant in membership historical past to have their equipment quantity celebrated. Morgan formally retired from skilled play in September 2024, and the information of her jersey commemoration comes only one month after she grew to become a membership investor.  Wave FC will maintain the equipment retirement ceremony on September 7 once they face the Houston Sprint.

“Alex’s legacy goes far past targets and accolades. She helped lay the muse for this membership and elevated the usual for what ladies’s soccer is immediately,” mentioned Lauren Leichtman, Governor of San Diego Wave FC. “She made this metropolis her dwelling, impressed our followers and neighborhood, and helped outline who we’re. Her affect will probably be felt for generations, and it is solely becoming that her quantity turns into a everlasting a part of Wave FC historical past.”

Morgan has long-standing ties to the state of California and attended UC Berkeley earlier than taking part in in WPS and NWSL. She was a foundational a part of three inaugural golf equipment all through NWSL historical past, with the Portland Thorns, Orlando Satisfaction, and eventually San Diego Wave FC. 

She retired from the Wave as its all-time main purpose scorer with 23 targets over 50 appearances. She additionally recorded 9 assists throughout her Wave FC profession and received the 2022 NWSL Golden Boot with 16 targets. She was a key determine within the workforce’s semifinal look in the course of the inaugural season and its 2023 NWSL Protect win.

Morgan has stayed busy post-retirement with in depth work throughout ladies’s sports activities. She is a founder of girls’s sports activities media firm TOGETHXR, and lately invested in Unequalled, a ladies’s professional basketball league. She grew to become a minority investor with Wave FC in Could.