2026 Draft Recap
The 2026 NSL Draft is officially wrapped up, and rosters are set for the season ahead. Here is a recap of every pick from Saturday’s proceedings:
| TEAM | PICK NUMBER | PLAYER |
| Grizzlies | 1 | Karim Gawad |
| Queens | 2 | Fayrouz Aboelkheir |
| Crushers | 3 | Youssef Soliman |
| Freeze | 4 | Tinne Gilis |
| Dragons | 5 | Timmy Brownell |
| Tornados | 6 | Nick Matthew |
| Colts | 7 | Mohamed El Shorbagy |
| Freedom | 8 | Sivasangari Subramaniam |
| Knights | 9 | Baptiste Masotti |
| Crushers | 10 | Noor Zaman |
| Freeze | 11 | Nada Abbas |
| Panthers | 12 | Greg Marche |
| Queens | 13 | Tesni Murphy |
| Grizzlies | 14 | Mazen Hesham |
| Queens | 15 | Nour Heikal |
| Grizzlies | 16 | Simon Herbert |
| Freeze | 17 | Mariam Metwally |
| Colts | 18 | Veer Chotrani |
| Inferno | 19 | Rowan El Araby |
| Tornados | 20 | Omar Mossad |
| Freeze | 21 | Hannah Craig |
| Lightning | 22 | Curtis Malik |
| Tornados | 23 | Ivan Perez |
| Queens | 24 | Nardine Garas |
| Knights | 25 | Mohamed El Sherbini |
| Colts | 26 | Nicolas Mueller |
| Queens | 27 | Madeleine Hylland |
| Grizzlies | 28 | Karim El Torkey |
| Freeze | 29 | Leila Sedky |
| Colts | 30 | Sam Osbourne-Wylde |
| Beacons | 31 | Amina Elrihany |
| Crushers | 32 | Joe White |
| Knights | 33 | David Bernet |
| Sharks | 34 | Torrie Malik |
| Beacons | 35 | David Baillargeon |
| Freedom | 36 | Olivia Clyne |
| Lightning | 37 | Nick Wall |
| Beacons | 38 | Ben Smith |
| Inferno | 39 | Lisa Aitken |
| Dragons | 40 | Auguste Dussourd |
| Tornados | 41 | Sanjay Jeeva |
| Sharks | 42 | Lucia Bautista |
| Knights | 43 | Shahjahan Khan |
| Crushers | 44 | Jeremias Azana |
| Beacons | 45 | Kiera Marshall |
| Colts | 46 | Andrew Douglas |
| Freeze | 47 | Saskia Bernhardt |
| Panthers | 48 | Kareem Badawi |
| Queens | 49 | Haley Mendez |
| Grizzlies | 50 | Yassin Elshafei |
That leaves us with the following rosters:
Men’s Rosters
| GREENWICH PANTHERS | CHICAGO GRIZZLIES | ATLANTA TORNADOS |
| Mostafa Asal | Karim Gawad | Miguel Angel Rodriguez |
| Greg Marche | Mazen Hesham | Nick Matthew |
| Juan Vargas | Simon Herbert | Omar Mossad |
| Dimitri Steinmann | Sam Todd | Ivan Perez |
| Diego Gobbi | Karim El Torkey | Mohamed Sharaf |
| Kareem Badawi | Yassin Elshafei | Sanjay Jeeva |
| PHILADELPHIA LIGHTNING | NEWPORT DRAGONS | NASHVILLE CRUSHERS |
| Marwan El Shorbagy | Timmy Brownell | Youssef Soliman |
| Mohamed Abouelghar | Matias Knudsen | Noor Zaman |
| Nathan Lake | Yahya Elnawasany | Moustafa Elsirty |
| Curtis Malik | Finnlay Withington | Ronald Palomino |
| Salim Khan | Abdelrahman Nassar | Joe White |
| Nick Wall | Auguste Dussourd | Jeremias Azana |
| LAKE ERIE BEACONS | LOUISVILLE COLTS | NEW YORK KNIGHTS |
| Victor Crouin | Leonel Cardenas | Eain Yow Ng |
| Bernat Jaume | Mohamed El Shorbagy | Baptiste Masotti |
| Yannick Wilhelmi | Veer Chotrani | Rory Stewart |
| Nicholas Spizziri | Nicolas Mueller | Mohamed El Sherbini |
| David Baillargeon | Sam Osbourne-Wylde | David Bernet |
| Ben Smith | Andrew Douglas | Shahjahan Khan |
Women’s Division
| PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM | LAKE ERIE BEACONS | SONO SHARKS |
| Olivia Weaver | Gina Kennedy | Salma Hany |
| Sivasangari Subramaniam | Lucy Beecroft | Marina Stefanoni |
| Melissa Alves | Hollie Naughton | Margot Prow |
| Nicole Bunyan | Alina Bushma | Hana Moatez |
| Catalina Pelaez | Amina Elrihany | Torrie Malik |
| Olivia Clyne | Kiera Marshall | Lucia Bautista |
| DC INFERNO | NEW YORK QUEENS | SEATTLE FREEZE |
| Amanda Sobhy | Fayrouz Aboelkheir | Tinne Gilis |
| Jasmine Hutton | Tesni Murphy | Nada Abbas |
| Rowan El Araby | Nour Heikal | Mariam Metwally |
| Rachel Arnold | Nardine Garas | Hannah Craig |
| Marie Stephan | Madeleiene Hylland | Leila Sedky |
| Lisa Aitken | Haley Mendez | Saskia Bernhardt |
Undrafted players will remain in the free agency pool, with the hopes of getting picked up at some point during the season:
| Sebastian Bonmalais | Tom Walsh | Asim Khan |
| Perry Malik | Seif El Shenawy | Aaron Allpress |
| Ibrahim Elkabbani | Salah Eltorgman | Charlie Lee |
| Elijah Thomas | Onaopemipo Adegoke | Ahsan Ayaz |
| Yannik Omlor | Connor Turk | Abdul Aahad Butt |
| Viktor Brutus | Andres “Pipe” Herrera | Abhishek Agarwal |
| Dillon Huang | Edgar Ramírez Bautista | Ali El Toukhy |
| Francesco Marcantonio | Bailey Malik | Alvin Heumann |
| Ziad Ahmed Ibrahim | Cesar Corona | David Turner |
| Mohamed Gohar | Lwamba Chileshe | Dylan Kachur |
| Aly Hussein | Yee Xian Siow | Khaled Labib |
| Spencer Lovejoy | Baptiste Bouin | |
| Farida Mohamed | Emilia Soini | Énora Villard |
| Yasshimita Jadish Kumar | Kacenka Tykova | |
| Asia Harris | Lara Varma | |
| Noa Romero | Lulu Palacios | |
| Karina Tyma | Mariam Kamal | |
| Elise Romba | Menna Nasser | |
| Gabriella Csokasi | Nikki Todd | |
| Inepta Hoptin | Sanya Vats | |
| Jana Safy | Yoshna Singh |
