2026 MLS SuperDraft

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2026 MLS SuperDraft
General information
SportSoccer
DateDecember 18, 2025
Network MLS Season Pass
Overview
90 total selections in 3 rounds
League Major League Soccer
Teams30
←  2025
2027  →

The 2026 MLS SuperDraft will be the 26th edition of the MLS SuperDraft, a sports draft to select amateur, usually collegiate, soccer players that are not affiliated 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 18, 2025, marking the fourth year in a row that the draft was held in December. Despite the draft being held in 2025, the draft retained the 2026 branding. [1]

Contents

Format

Historically, the MLS SuperDraft has closely resembled that of the NFL Draft:

  1. Any expansion teams receive the first picks. There are no expansion teams this year, so the last-place MLS team will receive the first pick
  2. Non-playoff clubs receive the next picks in reverse order of prior season finish.
  3. Teams that made the MLS Cup playoffs are then ordered by which round of the playoffs they are eliminated.
  4. The winners of the MLS Cup are given the last selection, and the losers the penultimate selection.

Player selection

Player key
*Denotes player who has been selected for an MLS Best XI team
^Member of 2026 Generation Adidas class
†Player who was named to an MLS Best XI and Generation Adidas
Signed key
22Denotes player who signed for a MLS team (Division I)
1Denotes player who signed for a USL Championship team (Division II)
30Denotes player who signed for a MLS Next Pro, USL League One or NISA team (Division III)
Denotes player who signed for a team outside the United States soccer league system
27Denotes player who returned to college team
Positions key
GKGoalkeeperDFDefenderMFMidfielderFWForward

First round

PMLS teamPlayerYearPos.CollegeConferenceAcademy team(s)Other team(s)Signed
1 D.C. United
2 Atlanta United
3 CF Montréal
4 Sporting Kansas City
5 LA Galaxy
6 Toronto FC
7 St. Louis City
8 New England Revolution
9 Houston Dynamo
10 Colorado Rapids
11 San Jose Earthquakes
12 New York Red Bulls
13 Real Salt Lake
14 Orlando City

Trades involving draft picks

First round

Second round

Third round

References

  1. ↑ "MLS Announces Calendar of 2024-25 Offseason Roster Building Events". MLSsoccer.com. October 2, 2025. Retrieved October 5, 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Colorado Rapids acquire SuperDraft selections from Philadelphia Union". MLSsoccer.com. December 10, 2024.
  3. ↑ @LAFC (December 20, 2024). "📝 #LAFC acquires the 22nd pick in the 2025 @MLS SuperDraft from @InterMiamiCF in exchange for $50K in 2025 GAM and LAFC's natural second-round selection in 2026" (Tweet). Retrieved December 20, 2024– via Twitter.
  4. ↑ "Real Salt Lake Acquire New York Red Bulls FW Elias Manoel and Four MLS Superdraft Picks in Exchange for $700,000 in General Allocation Money". RSL.com. December 20, 2024. Retrieved December 20, 2024.
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