| 2026 MLS SuperDraft | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Sport | Soccer |
| Date | December 18, 2025 |
| Network | MLS Season Pass |
| Overview | |
| 90 total selections in 3 rounds | |
| League | Major League Soccer |
| Teams | 30 |
| First selection | Nikola Marković |
The 2026 MLS SuperDraft was 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 was 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]
Historically, the MLS SuperDraft has closely resembled that of the NFL draft:
| 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 | |||||||||||
| 7 | Denotes player who signed for a MLS team (Division I) | ||||||||||
| 1 | Denotes player who signed for a USL Championship team (Division II) | ||||||||||
| 0 | 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 | ||||||||||
| 0 | 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Dynamo FC | | GK | NC State | ACC | [27] | |
| Houston Dynamo FC | | DF | Virginia | ACC | [28] | |
| New York City FC | | DF | Duke | ACC | [29] | |
| Conference | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCAA Division I conferences | ||||
| ACC | 13 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| America East | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| American | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| ASUN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Big East | 1 | 5 | 4 | 10 |
| Big South | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Big Ten | 3 | 8 | 3 | 14 |
| Big West | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ivy | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| MVC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Pac-12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| SoCon | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Summit | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| SBC | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| WAC | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| WCC | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Selections | Schools |
|---|---|
| 5 | Washington |
| 4 | Clemson, Maryland, North Carolina, NC State, Princeton |
| 3 | Bryant, High Point, UCLA, UConn |
| 2 | Akron, Denver, Georgetown, Georgia Southern, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Portland, San Diego, SMU, Stanford, UNC Greensboro, Vermont, Virginia, Wake Forest, Xavier |