KC Current trades USWNT forward Ally Sentnor to Angel City. Here are the details
United States Women’s National Team attacker Ally Sentnor came to the Kansas City Current in August with much hype and fanfare. Less than a year later, that hype wasn’t met, and she has been shipped out to Angel City FC.
The Current traded Sentnor to 12th-place Angel City for $850,000 in intraleague transfer funds, sources told The Star. Sentnor’s contract was set to expire at the end of the season.
The move comes after the Current paid the Utah Royals $600,000 to acquire Sentnor in a blockbuster move that was briefly an NWSL record for a deal between league teams. The Current will play Utah $200K this year and $100K next year, ESPN reported.
This deal for Sentnor is the second highest intraleague transfer with guaranteed funds. The move also comes on the same day Angel City parted ways with head coach Alexander Strauss and traded rising star Kennedy Fuller to Bay FC.
Sentnor, 22, was the NWSL’s final No. 1 draft pick in 2024; the latest collective bargaining agreement abolished drafts and allowed players to negotiate directly with teams.
Sentnor, listed at 5-4, is a versatile player, able to direct attacks as an attacking midfielder or from the No. 9 striker position. Her star has risen with the USWNT, with which she’s scored seven goals in 23 caps as a key fixture on the roster.
But her time with the Current never quite reached the heights that some may have expected.
How the move affects the Current
In the 11 games Sentnor dressed for the Current in 2025, her passing made for some key moments, but she failed to tally a goal or assist.
But this season, she had flashed some of her scoring prowess to start the year.
She notched the game winner against her old team in the season opener. As Temwa Chawinga worked back from injury to start the season, Sentnor was slotted as the team’s striker.
Some of those matches saw her struggle to find connectivity with an attack now led by rising star Croix Bethune and pieced together by new head coach Chris Armas. Sentnor also couldn’t consistently take advantage of chances when she received the ball inside the opponent’s 18-yard box.
Some of the notable moments of the season included flashes of play where Bethune, Sentnor and Debinha would occupy the same space in the midfield. Armas said those sequences were by design.
Once Chawinga returned to the lineup, it opened the attack, as a two-time MVP’s influence can do. Sentnor finished her time in Kansas City with two goals and two assists in 25 games.
With Sentnor out of the lineup, Chawinga could move from her winger position to the No. 9 spot.
It also could free up more minutes for Haley Hopkins, a versatile offensive player who can play striker or winger. Armas expressed wanting to get more minutes for her after the Current’s last run of matches before the World Cup break.
Rookie attacker Amelia White could also see more minutes as a result. White hasn’t played more than 22 minutes in NWSL competition, but she has shown pace and vision on the ball from the left wing.
Also ... never rule out another roster move when it comes to the openly negotiable Current front office, led by sporting director and former head coach Vlatko Andonovski and general manager Ryan Dell.
The Current sits in sixth place in the NWSL and will have its break cut short when it faces NJ/NY Gotham FC in the Challenge Cup on June 26. The Challenge Cup, which pits last season’s NWSL champion against last season’s Shield winner, will kick off at 7 p.m.
