A soybean cultivar designated S050224 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S050224, to the plants of soybean S050224, to plant parts of soybean cultivar S050224 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean cultivar S050224 with itself or with another soybean variety. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from soybean variety S050224, to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S050224 and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants and plant parts produced by crossing the cultivar S050224 with another soybean cultivar.