Position: Midfielder
Hometown: Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
Birthday: 4/4/01
Pronunciation: rye-ann | betch-er
Entering 2026
Ryan Becher completed the 2025 season with Union Omaha of USL League One, totaling nine goals and three assists in 22 matches. He was on loan from MLS Next Pro side St. Louis City SC 2. … In 2024, with St. Louis City SC 2, he played in 31 matches and scored two goals with four assists, and he added one goal and one assist in 11 matches during 2025 with the club. … Becher played at UCLA in 2023 and appeared in 15 matches, starting 13 of them, scoring six goals with two assists. … Began his college career at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 2019. He accrued 25 goals and 20 assists over 62 matches – all starts – in the span of four years. With the Retrievers, he was selected to the “Best Starting XI” in Division I soccer by NCAA.com in 2022, when he also made the America East First Team and the United Soccer Coaches Northeast Conference Second Team. He was the only player in the country that season to post double-digit figures in goals (13) and assists (10). … Becher won back-to-back high-school championships in Pennsylvania during 2016 and 2017. … Becher’s father, Bill, played for the Fort Wayne Flames and the Indiana Kick, professional teams in the American Indoor Soccer Association that competed at Memorial Coliseum, from 1987 to 1990. … Bill and Ryan’s grandfather, Bill Becher Sr., are members of the St. Louis Soccer Hall of Fame. Ryan’s brother, Jackson, was a teammate at UMBC. And his cousin, Simon, played in Major League Soccer for St. Louis City in 2025.