2017 MLS expansion draft

2017 MLS Expansion Draft
General information
Date(s)	December 12, 2017 [1]
Overview
Expansion team	Los Angeles FC
Expansion season	2018
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The 2017 MLS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Los Angeles FC held on December 12, 2017. Lists of protected rosters and draft-eligible players were released by MLS on December 10, 2017. ^[2]

Format

The rules for the 2017 MLS Expansion Draft as laid out by Major League Soccer. ^[3]

• Existing teams are allowed to protect 11 players from their Senior, Supplemental and Reserve Roster. Generation Adidas players and Homegrown Players on supplemental rosters are automatically protected and exempt from the expansion draft. Though players who graduated from the Generation Adidas program to the senior roster at the end of the 2017 season are not exempt.
• Only one player may be claimed from each club’s non-protected roster, that team is then eliminated from the expansion draft and not allowed to lose any further players.
• The expansion draft will last 5 rounds totaling 5 players to be drafted.

Expansion Draft Picks

Pick	MLS Team	Player	Previous Team	Trade Notes
1	Los Angeles FC	Tyler Miller	Seattle Sounders FC
2		Latif Blessing	Sporting Kansas City
3		Marco Ureña (INTL)	San Jose Earthquakes
4		Jukka Raitala (INTL)	Columbus Crew SC	Traded to Montreal Impact in exchange for Laurent Ciman. [4]
5		Raheem Edwards	Toronto FC

Affected Post-Draft Trades

• This section will show any publicized details of trades made regarding players involved in the expansion draft.

Team-by-team-breakdown

Legend
Selected by Los Angeles FC
(DP) - Designated Player
(FA) - Free agent
(GA) - Generation Adidas
(HGP) - Homegrown player
(INTL) - International player

Atlanta United FC

As of December 10, 2017 ^[5]

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Mikey Ambrose	Miguel Almirón (DP) (INTL)	Andrew Carleton (HGP)
Yamil Asad (INTL)	Carlos Carmona (INTL)	Chris Goslin (HGP)
Mark Bloom	Greg Garza	Miles Robinson (GA)
Bobby Boswell (FA)	Leandro González Pírez (INTL)
Kevin Kratz	Julian Gressel (INTL)
Jeff Larentowicz (FA)	Brad Guzan
Zach Loyd (FA)	Alec Kann
Chris McCann	Josef Martínez (DP) (INTL)
Tyrone Mears	Michael Parkhurst
Kévin Oliveira (INTL)	Brandon Vazquez
Jeffrey Otoo (INTL)	Héctor Villalba (DP) (INTL)
Tyler Pasher (INTL)
Jacob Peterson
Kyle Reynish (FA)
Anton Walkes (INTL)
Andrew Wheeler-Omiunu
Romario Williams (INTL)

Chicago Fire

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
David Arshakyan (INTL)	David Accam (DP)	Drew Conner (HGP)
Jorge Bava (INTL)	Jonathan Campbell	Collin Fernandez (HGP)
Brandt Bronico	Johan Kappelhof (INTL)	Djordje Mihailovic (HGP)
Stefan Cleveland	Dax McCarty	Patrick Doody (HGP)
Jorge Corrales	Nemanja Nikolić (DP) (INTL)	Joey Calistri (HGP)
Michael de Leeuw (INTL)	Juninho
Christian Dean	Matt Polster
Matej Dekovic (INTL)	Richard Sánchez
John Goossens (INTL)	Bastian Schweinsteiger (DP) (INTL)
Michael Harrington (FA)	Luis Solignac (INTL)
Daniel Johnson	Brandon Vincent
Matt Lampson
João Meira (INTL)

Colorado Rapids

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
John Berner	Stefan Aigner (INTL)	Caleb Calvert (HGP)
Bobby Burling (FA)	Micheal Azira	Kortne Ford (HGP)
Dennis Castillo (INTL)	Dominique Badji (INTL)	Dillon Serna (HGP)
Mike da Fonte	Nana Boateng (INTL)	Ricardo Perez (HGP)
Josh Gatt	Shkëlzen Gashi (DP) (INTL)	Kevin Doyle
Luis Gil	Marlon Hairston
Alan Gordon (FA)	Tim Howard (DP)
Sam Hamilton	Zac MacMath
Mohammed Saeid (INTL)	Eric Miller
Mekeil Williams (INTL)	Axel Sjöberg
	Jared Watts

Columbus Crew SC

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Waylon Francis	Mohammed Abu (INTL)	Alex Crognale (HGP)
Niko Hansen	Lalas Abubakar (INTL)	Ben Swanson (HGP)
Marshall Hollingsworth	Harrison Afful
Adam Jahn	Artur (INTL)
Hector Jiménez	Federico Higuaín (DP)
Logan Ketterer	Ola Kamara (INTL)
Connor Maloney	Kekuta Manneh
Cristian Martínez (INTL)	Pedro Santos (DP) (INTL)
Jonathan Mensah (DP) (INTL)	Justin Meram
Abuchi Obinwa	Zack Steffen
Jukka Raitala (INTL)	Wil Trapp
Rodrigo Saravia (INTL)
Gastón Sauro
Brad Stuver
Josh Williams

D.C. United

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Deshorn Brown (INTL)	Luciano Acosta (INTL)	Chris Durkin (HGP)
Julian Büscher (INTL)	Paul Arriola (DP)	Ian Harkes (HGP)
Steve Clark	Steve Birnbaum	Jalen Robinson (HGP)
Sean Franklin (FA)	Frédéric Brillant (INTL)	Chris Rolfe
Bill Hamid	Russell Canouse
Jared Jeffrey	Nick DeLeon
Eric Klenofsky	Taylor Kemp
Chris Korb	Darren Mattocks
Bruno Miranda (INTL)	Patrick Mullins
Patrick Nyarko (FA)	Kofi Opare
Chris Odoi-Atsem	Zoltán Stieber (INTL)
Lloyd Sam
Marcelo Sarvas
Rob Vincent
Travis Worra

FC Dallas

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Carlos Cermeño (INTL)	Kellyn Acosta	Coy Craft (HGP)
Aníbal Chalá (DP) (INTL)	Tesho Akindele	Jesse González (HGP)
Eduardo Cortes	Michael Barrios (INTL)	Bryan Reynolds (HGP)
Maynor Figueroa (INTL)	Cristian Colmán (DP) (INTL)	Paxton Pomykal (HGP)
Luis González (INTL)	Mauro Díaz	Aaron Guillen (HGP)
Hernán Grana (INTL)	Carlos Gruezo (DP) (INTL)	Jesús Ferreira (HGP)
Atiba Harris (FA)	Jacori Hayes	Reggie Cannon (HGP)
Walker Hume	Matt Hedges	Adonijah Reid (GA)
Roland Lamah (INTL)	Ryan Hollingshead
Javier Morales (FA)	Victor Ulloa
Chris Seitz (FA)	Maxi Urruti

Houston Dynamo

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Eric Alexander (FA)	Juan David Cabezas (INTL)	Tyler Deric (HGP)
Arturo Álvarez	Leonardo	Memo Rodríguez (HGP)
Jalil Anibaba	Alberth Elis (DP) (INTL)	Christian Lucatero (HGP)
DaMarcus Beasley (FA)	Adolfo Machado (INTL)
Boniek García	Mauro Manotas
Calle Brown	Tomás Martínez (DP) (INTL)
Ricardo Clark (FA)	Romell Quioto (INTL)
A. J. DeLaGarza (FA)	Dylan Remick
José Escalante (INTL)	Erick Torres (DP)
Kevin Garcia	Andrew Wenger
Joe Holland (INTL)	Joe Willis
Taylor Hunter
George Malki
Alex
Vicente Sánchez
Philippe Senderos (INTL)
Charlie Ward (INTL)

LA Galaxy

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Michaël Ciani (INTL)	Romain Alessandrini (DP) (INTL)	Robbie Rogers
Bradley Diallo (INTL)	João Pedro (INTL)	Hugo Arellano (HGP)
Clément Diop	Emmanuel Boateng	Jose Villarreal (HGP)
Jermaine Jones	Ashley Cole (INTL)	Raúl Mendiola (HGP) (INTL)
Rafael Garcia	Giovani dos Santos (DP) (INTL)	Jaime Villarreal (HGP)
Jon Kempin	Jonathan dos Santos (DP) (INTL)	Nathan Smith (HGP)
Ariel Lassiter	Baggio Hušidić	Bradford Jamieson IV (HGP)
Jack McInerney	Sebastian Lletget	Jack McBean (HGP)
Brian Rowe	David Romney
Pele van Anholt (INTL)	Daniel Steres
	Gyasi Zardes

Minnesota United FC

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Bernardo Añor	Bobby Shuttleworth	Abu Danladi (GA) (INTL)
Justin Davis	Francisco Calvo (INTL)	Collin Martin (HGP)
Thomas De Villardi	Michael Boxall (INTL)	Harrison Heath (HGP)
Vadim Demidov (INTL)	Brent Kallman
Joe Greenspan	Jérôme Thiesson (INTL)
Miguel Ibarra	Marc Burch
Ismaila Jome	Sam Cronin
Alex Kapp	Kevin Molino
José Leitón (INTL)	Ibson
Patrick McLain	Ethan Finlay
Sam Nicholson (INTL)	Christian Ramirez
Rasmus Schüller (INTL)
Jermaine Taylor
Johan Venegas (INTL)
Kevin Venegas
Collen Warner

Montreal Impact

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Hernán Bernardello (INTL)	Ambroise Oyongo (INTL)	David Choinière (HGP)
Patrice Bernier	Evan Bush	Maxime Crépeau (HGP)
Deian Boldor (INTL)	Víctor Cabrera (INTL)	Louis Béland-Goyette (HGP)
Hassoun Camara	Laurent Ciman (INTL)	Anthony Jackson-Hamel (HGP)
Nick DePuy	Marco Donadel (INTL)	Shamit Shome (GA)
Shaun Francis (FA)	Chris Duvall	Ballou Tabla (HGP)
Eric Kronberg (FA)	Blerim Džemaili (DP) (INTL)
Wandrille Lefèvre	Kyle Fisher
Matteo Mancosu (INTL)	Daniel Lovitz
Dominic Oduro	Ignacio Piatti (DP) (INTL)
Andrés Romero (INTL)	Samuel Piette
Michael Salazar

New England Revolution

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Benjamin Angoua (INTL)	Juan Agudelo	Scott Caldwell (HGP)
Femi Hollinger-Janzen	Teal Bunbury	Zachary Herivaux (HGP)
Brad Knighton (FA)	Cody Cropper
Daigo Kobayashi	Antonio Delamea Mlinar (INTL)
Xavier Kouassi (INTL)	Claude Dielna (INTL)
Donnie Smith	Diego Fagúndez
Joshua Smith	Andrew Farrell
Chris Tierney	Gershon Koffie (INTL)
Matt Turner	Krisztián Németh (INTL)
Je-Vaughn Watson	Lee Nguyen
London Woodberry	Kelyn Rowe
Brian Wright

New York City FC

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
R. J. Allen	Alexander Callens (INTL)	Jonathan Lewis (GA)
Kwame Awuah	Jack Harrison	James Sands (HGP)
Miguel Camargo (INTL)	Yangel Herrera (INTL)	Andrea Pirlo
Maxime Chanot (INTL)	Sean Johnson
Shannon Gomez	Rónald Matarrita
Eirik Johansen	Tommy McNamara
Mikey Lopez	Maximiliano Moralez (DP) (INTL)
Jefferson Mena (INTL)	Alexander Ring (INTL)
Sean Okoli	Ben Sweat
John Stertzer	David Villa (DP) (INTL)
Andraž Struna (INTL)	Rodney Wallace
Ethan White

New York Red Bulls

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Anatole Abang (INTL)	Felipe	Tyler Adams (HGP)
Gideon Baah (INTL)	Fidel Escobar (INTL)	Sean Davis (HGP)
Vincent Bezecourt (INTL)	Sacha Kljestan (DP)	Derrick Etienne (HGP)
Aurélien Collin (INTL)	Kemar Lawrence (INTL)	Arun Basuljevic (HGP)
Dilly Duka (FA)	Aaron Long	Alex Muyl (HGP)
Mike Grella	Ryan Meara	Evan Louro (HGP)
Muhamed Keita (INTL)	Michael Amir Murillo (INTL)	Brandon Allen (HGP)
Connor Lade	Luis Robles
Zeiko Lewis (INTL)	Daniel Royer (INTL)
Dan Metzger	Gonzalo Verón (INTL)
Hassan Ndam (INTL)	Bradley Wright-Phillips (DP)
Damien Perrinelle (INTL)
Sal Zizzo (FA)

Orlando City SC

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Kevin Alston	José Aja (INTL)	Richie Laryea (GA) (INTL)
Giles Barnes (FA)	Joe Bendik	Tommy Redding (HGP)
Hadji Barry	Dom Dwyer	Mason Stajduhar (HGP)
Servando Carrasco	Cristian Higuita	Kaká
Pierre da Silva	Will Johnson
Conor Donovan	Cyle Larin
Earl Edwards Jr.	Carlos Rivas (DP)
Devron García (INTL)	Jonathan Spector
PC (INTL)	Scott Sutter (INTL)
Seb Hines	Donny Toia
Antonio Nocerino	Yoshimar Yotún (DP) (INTL)
Léo Pereira (INTL)
Dillon Powers
Rafael Ramos
Tony Rocha
Josh Saunders (FA)

Philadelphia Union

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Roland Alberg (INTL)	Alejandro Bedoya (DP)	Adam Najem (HGP)
Eric Ayuk (INTL)	Andre Blake (INTL)	Derrick Jones (HGP)
Warren Creavalle	Jack Elliott (INTL)	Auston Trusty (HGP)
Charlie Davies	Marcus Epps	Joshua Yaro (GA) (INTL)
Maurice Edu (DP)	Fabinho	Brian Carroll
Ray Gaddis	Fabian Herbers
Aaron Jones (INTL)	Haris Medunjanin (INTL)
Richie Marquez	Ilsinho (INTL)
John McCarthy	Fafà Picault
Jake McGuire	Keegan Rosenberry
Oguchi Onyewu	C. J. Sapong
Chris Pontius (FA)
Jay Simpson (INTL)
Ken Tribbett
Giliano Wijnaldum (INTL)

Portland Timbers

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Victor Arboleda (INTL)	Fanendo Adi (DP)	Jeremy Ebobisse (GA)
Gbenga Arokoyo (INTL)	Vytas	Marco Farfan (HGP)
Jeff Attinella	Dairon Asprilla
Jack Barmby (INTL)	Sebastián Blanco (DP) (INTL)
Rennico Clarke (INTL)	Diego Chará
Jake Gleeson	David Guzmán (INTL)
Kendall McIntosh	Larrys Mabiala (INTL)
Lucas Melano (INTL)	Darlington Nagbe
Roy Miller	Alvas Powell
Chance Myers	Liam Ridgewell
Amobi Okugo	Diego Valeri (DP)
Lawrence Olum
Bill Tuiloma (INTL)
Zarek Valentin
Ben Zemanski (FA)

Real Salt Lake

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Chad Barrett (FA)	Kyle Beckerman	Danilo Acosta (HGP)
Tony Beltran	Justen Glad (HGP)	Jordan Allen (HGP)
Nick Besler	David Horst	José Hernández (HGP) (INTL)
Reagan Dunk	Luke Mulholland	Brooks Lennon (HGP)
Omar Holness (INTL)	Joao Plata	Ricardo Velazco (HGP)
Yura Movsisyan (DP)	Nick Rimando
Stephen Sunday	Albert Rusnák (DP) (INTL)
Demar Phillips (INTL)	Sebastian Saucedo
Justin Schmidt	Jefferson Savarino (DP) (INTL)
Chris Schuler (FA)	Luis Silva
Connor Sparrow	Marcelo Silva (INTL)
Matt Van Oekel
Chris Wingert (FA)

San Jose Earthquakes

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
François Affolter (INTL)	Fatai Alashe	Tommy Thompson (HGP)
Quincy Amarikwa	David Bingham	Nick Lima (HGP)
Leandro Barrera (INTL)	Darwin Cerén	Jackson Yueill (GA)
Víctor Bernárdez	Aníbal Godoy (INTL)	Marvell Wynne
Matt Bersano	Danny Hoesen (INTL)
Cordell Cato	Jahmir Hyka (INTL)
Kip Colvey	Florian Jungwirth (INTL)
Harold Cummings (INTL)	Vako (DP) (INTL)
Simon Dawkins (DP) (INTL)	Shea Salinas
Andrés Imperiale (INTL)	Andrew Tarbell
Lindo Mfeka (INTL)	Chris Wondolowski (DP)
Marc Pelosi
Kofi Sarkodie
Matheus Silva (INTL)
Marco Ureña (INTL)

Seattle Sounders FC

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Tony Alfaro	Will Bruin	Aaron Kovar (HGP)
Osvaldo Alonso (DP)	Clint Dempsey (DP)	Seyi Adekoya (HGP)
Jordy Delem (INTL)	Stefan Frei	Jordan Morris (HGP)
Brad Evans (FA)	Kelvin Leerdam (INTL)	Henry Wingo (HGP)
Oniel Fisher	Nicolás Lodeiro (DP) (INTL)
Joevin Jones (INTL)	Chad Marshall
Calum Mallace	Víctor Rodríguez (INTL)
Zach Mathers	Cristian Roldan
Bryan Meredith	Gustav Svensson (INTL)
Tyler Miller	Nouhou Tolo (INTL)
Lamar Neagle (FA)	Román Torres (INTL)
Harry Shipp

Sporting Kansas City

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Saad Abdul-Salaam	Matt Besler	Kevin Ellis (HGP)
Kharlton Belmar	Roger Espinoza (DP)	Gianluca Busio (HGP)
Latif Blessing	Benny Feilhaber	Erik Palmer-Brown (HGP)
Amer Didic	Gerso Fernandes (DP)	Dániel Sallói (HGP) (INTL)
Andrew Dykstra	Cristian Lobato (INTL)
Cameron Iwasa	Jimmy Medranda
Kenwyne Jones	Tim Melia
Soni Mustivar (INTL)	James Musa (INTL)
Cameron Porter	Ike Opara
Diego Rubio	Ilie Sánchez
Soony Saad	Graham Zusi (DP)
Seth Sinovic
Colton Storm
Alex Tambakis
Adrian Zendejas

Toronto FC

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Øyvind Alseth (INTL)	Jozy Altidore (DP)	Jay Chapman (HGP)
Brandon Aubrey	Alex Bono	Jordan Hamilton (HGP)
Steven Beitashour (FA)	Michael Bradley (DP)	Ashtone Morgan (HGP)
Benoît Cheyrou (INTL)	Marky Delgado	Sergio Camargo (HGP)
Armando Cooper (INTL)	Sebastian Giovinco (DP) (INTL)	Ben Spencer (HGP)
Raheem Edwards	Nick Hagglund
Tsubasa Endoh (INTL)	Chris Mavinga (INTL)
Nicolas Hasler (INTL)	Justin Morrow
Jason Hernandez (FA)	Jonathan Osorio
Clint Irwin	Víctor Vázquez (INTL)
Drew Moor (FA)	Eriq Zavaleta
Mark Pais
Tosaint Ricketts

Vancouver Whitecaps FC

As of December 10, 2017

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Christian Bolaños (INTL)	Ali Ghazal (INTL)	Sam Adekugbe (HGP)
Marcel de Jong	Erik Hurtado	Marco Bustos (HGP)
David Edgar	Kei Kamara (DP)	Alphonso Davies (HGP)
Deybi Flores (INTL)	Stefan Marinovic (INTL)	Ben McKendry (HGP)
Kyle Greig	Nicolás Mezquida (INTL)	Russell Teibert (HGP)
Jordan Harvey (FA)	Fredy Montero (DP)
Bernie Ibini-Isei (INTL)	Jake Nerwinski
Nosa Igiebor (INTL)	Tim Parker
Andrew Jacobson (FA)	Yordy Reyna (INTL)
Matías Laba (INTL)	Tony Tchani
Brett Levis	Kendall Waston (INTL)
Aaron Maund
David Ousted (INTL)
Spencer Richey
Mauro Rosales
Cole Seiler
Brek Shea (DP)
Cristian Techera (INTL)
Sheanon Williams

References

1. "2017 MLS Expansion Draft set for December 12; LAFC to have five picks". MLSsoccer.com. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
2. "2017 MLS Expansion Draft set for December 12; LAFC to have five picks". MLSsoccer.com. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
3. "MLS Expansion Draft: Rules & Procedure". MLS.
4. "LAFC acquire Laurent Ciman from Impact for draftees Edwards, Raitala". MLS.
5. "2017 MLS Expansion Draft protected and unprotected lists". MLSsoccer.com. Retrieved December 11, 2017.