FC Dallas loans Tarik Scott to Monterey Bay FC
The Homegrown forward joins the USL Championship side for the rest of the 2025 season.
While FC Dallas was quiet on the final days of the summer transfer window in Major Leauge Soccer, the club has made one more move to their roster. FC Dallas has loaned Homegrown forward Tarik Scott to USL Championship side Monterey Bay FC for the remainder of the 2025 season.
Scott debuted for FC Dallas against FC Cincinnati on June 29, 2024, and has six appearances for the club, including four this season totaling 44 minutes. FC Dallas signed Scott as the club’s 34th Homegrown in Nov. 2022.
With North Texas SC, Scott made his professional career debut against MNUFC2 on March 26, 2022, and scored a brace to win the game. In 2024, he appeared in 21 regular-season matches, and led the team with 10 goals, helping North Texas to the playoffs and win the MLS NEXT Pro Cup, the club’s first championship in MLS NEXT Pro.
In 2025, Scott scored five goals in 16 appearances for North Texas, second most on the team. He set a club record by scoring the fastest goal scored in club history in MLS NEXT Pro play, scoring in one minute and 15 seconds. From 2022-2025, his 17 goals rank him fourth all-time in club history, and holds the club record for game-winning goals with four.
Monterey Bay FC compete in the USL Championship league, the second tier of American soccer, and rank 10th in the Western Conference. During his loan, Scott will reunite with former North Texas SC teammate and captain Nico Gordon.
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Quick BDS Take
This is a good thing and one I want to see happen more often as we move forward here into 2026. Players like Scott need minutes and the MLS Next Pro division isn’t the place for them to stay put in year over year if they’re not able to break into the first team. By sending them to a USL Championship side, they will be in a higher division of play than MLSNP and be along side more professional players.
For Scott, I love this move. He was a candidate for a season long loan at the beginning of the year for the club. I was told back in March that the club really pushed for one, but failed to come up with a good landing spot for Scott.
While this isn’t a full season loan, it could be a bridge into 2026 for Scott to earn more minutes outside of Frisco. He’s proven himself at the MLSNP level, but he needs an additional push to get to the MLS level. This kind of loan gets him there.
