2024 MLS SuperDraft | |
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General information | |
Sport | Soccer |
Date(s) | December 19, 2023 |
Time | 3:00 p.m. EST |
Network(s) | MLS Season Pass |
Overview | |
87 total selections in 3 rounds | |
League | Major League Soccer |
Teams | 29 |
First selection | Tyrese Spicer (Toronto FC) |
The 2024 MLS SuperDraft was the 25th edition of the MLS SuperDraft, a sports draft to select amateur, usually collegiate, soccer players that are not affiliate with an MLS club, or college soccer players that had their Homegrown player rights relinquished by their parent MLS club. The draft will be held on December 19, 2023, marking the second year in a row that the draft will be held in December. Despite the draft being held in 2023, the draft retained the 2024 branding. [1]
Ahead of the 2024 draft, MLS has expanded the player eligibility criteria for the SuperDraft. For the first time in league history, collegiate sophomores and juniors, alongside seniors and above, and Generation adidas signees in the selection pool will be eligible for the draft, similar to eligibility in the Major League Baseball draft. [2] Drafted players retaining college eligibility can opt to return to school for further development but will forfeit future draft eligibility. The drafting club retains SuperDraft Priority for approximately two years if a selected player chooses to return to college or remains unsigned. [1] [3]
Historically, the MLS SuperDraft has closely resembled that of the NFL Draft:
Player key | |||||||||||
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* | Denotes player who has been selected for an MLS Best XI team | ||||||||||
^ | Member of 2024 Generation Adidas class | ||||||||||
† | Player who was named to an MLS Best XI and Generation Adidas | ||||||||||
Signed key | |||||||||||
26 | Denotes player who signed for a MLS team (Division I) | ||||||||||
2 | Denotes player who signed for a USL Championship team (Division II) | ||||||||||
25 | Denotes player who signed for a MLS Next Pro, USL League One or NISA team (Division III) | ||||||||||
0 | Denotes player who signed for a team outside the United States soccer league system | ||||||||||
14 | Denotes player who returned to college team | ||||||||||
Positions key | |||||||||||
GK | Goalkeeper | DF | Defender | MF | Midfielder | FW | Forward |
This is a list of players who were draft eligible, but previously played on the Academy team of an MLS side, and were signed directly to the first team roster prior to the SuperDraft.
Original MLS team | Player | Position | College | Conference | Notes | Ref. |
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Atlanta United FC | Garrison Tubbs | DF | Wake Forest | ACC | Shortly after being signed by Atlanta, Tubbs was dealt to D.C. United. | [77] |
FC Dallas | Malik Henry-Scott | FW | Tulsa | AAC | [78] | |
Philadelphia Union | Nick Pariano | MF | Duke | ACC | [79] |
Conference | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Total |
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NCAA Division I conferences | ||||
ACC | 6 | 9 | 7 | 22 |
America East | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
American | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Atlantic 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
ASUN | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Big East | 3 | 7 | 4 | 14 |
Big Ten | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
Big West | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
CAA | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Ivy | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
MAAC | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Missouri Valley | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Pac-12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 |
Patriot | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Sun Belt | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
WAC | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
WCC | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
Selections | Schools |
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6 | Georgetown |
4 | Duke |
3 | Akron, Clemson, Indiana, Louisville, Oregon State, Stanford, Virginia, West Virginia, Western Michigan, Portland |
2 | California, Hofstra, Lipscomb, Marshall, Notre Dame, Syracuse, UConn, UCLA, Washington |
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Round 3:
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