INDIANAPOLIS – Indy Eleven announced on Friday the club had acquired forward Tega Ikoba on loan from Portland Timbers FC of Major Leage Soccer for the 2024 USL Championship season. Per club policy, terms of the deal will not be disclosed, and the transaction is pending league and federation approval.

Signed as a Homegrown player for Portland in January 2022, Ikoba made his MLS debut against Sporting Kansas City on May 14, 2022. In his 2023 season debut against Atlanta, Ikoba became the youngest goalscorer in the club’s history and went on to make his first MLS start on April 8 against Vancouver. The 20-year-old has played in six MLS matches, totaling 104 minutes of action, while also seeing action for the club’s reserve team in MLS NEXT Pro, where he has notched six goals in 32 appearances.

During the 2020 USL Championship season, Ikoba made seven appearances, including five starts for T2 as a USL Academy signing. He went on to compete for the University of North Carolina where he recorded six goals and two assists in 19 appearances before signing as a Homegrown Player with the Timbers after his freshman season.

At the International level, Ikoba was selected to compete for the United States at the 2023 Pan American Games and has been invited to multiple youth national team camps.

Additionally, the Boys in Blue have added Maverick McCoy as a USL Academy signing. McCoy joins five additional players from the club’s championship-winning Academy program on the 2024 roster.

McCoy, Benji Chavarria, Cayden Crawford, Nikola Ivetic and Logan Neidlinger helped the club to its third straight U-20 USL Academy Cup title over the weekend as the side defeated the Richmond Kickers 1-0 in the final to cap an undefeated run through the tournament.