Austin FC signed forward Alfonso Ocampo-Chávez on a one-year guaranteed deal through the end of the 2023 season, with Club options for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, in November 2022. A 20-year-old California native, Ocampo-Chávez spent the 2022 season with Seattle Sounders FC’s MLS NEXT Pro affiliate Tacoma Defiance. He made 23 appearances for Tacoma in 2022, scoring nine (9) goals and tallying four (4) assists. He spent the latter part of the 2021 season on loan from Seattle with FC Pinzgau Saalfelden of the Austrian Regionalliga Salzburg, where he made 13 appearances and scored one (1) goal.
At the youth international level, Ocampo-Chávez represented the United States at the U-14, U-15, and U-17 levels. He competed for the U.S. at the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 2019, and was a key part of the team’s qualifying campaign as one (1) of two (2) players to appear in all seven (7) of the team’s matches at the 2019 Concacaf U-17 Championship.
Austin originally claimed Ocampo-Chávez off the MLS End-of-Year Waivers list on November 17, 2022.
