2016 MLS Expansion Draft Date(s) December 13, 2016 [1] Expansion teams Atlanta United FC Minnesota United FC Expansion season 2017
The 2016 MLS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion teams Atlanta United FC and Minnesota United FC .[2] Atlanta United was selected to pick first by an "Expansion Priority Draft" conducted on October 16, 2016.[3] Protected rosters are based on an MLS release from December 12, 2016.[4]
Format [ ]
These are the rules for the 2016 MLS Expansion Draft as laid out by Major League Soccer.[5]
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 2016 season are not exempt.[6]
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[7]
The expansion draft will last 5 rounds totaling 10 players to be drafted. [8]
Expansion Draft order [ ]
Pick
MLS Team
Player
Previous Team
Trade Notes
1
Atlanta United FC
Donny Toia
Montreal Impact
Traded to Orlando City SC on December 13, 2016.
2
Minnesota United FC
Chris Duvall
New York Red Bulls
Traded to Montreal Impact on December 13, 2016.
3
Atlanta United FC
Zach Loyd
FC Dallas
4
Minnesota United FC
Collen Warner
Houston Dynamo
5
Atlanta United FC
Clint Irwin
Toronto FC
Traded back to Toronto FC on December 13, 2016.
6
Minnesota United FC
Mohammed Saeid
Columbus Crew SC
Traded to Colorado Rapids on March 31, 2017.[9]
7
Atlanta United FC
Mikey Ambrose
Orlando City SC
8
Minnesota United FC
Jeff Attinella
Real Salt Lake
Traded to Portland Timbers [10] on December 20, 2016.
9
Atlanta United FC
Alec Kann
Sporting Kansas City
10
Minnesota United FC
Femi Hollinger-Janzen
New England Revolution
Traded back to New England Revolution [11] on February 15, 2017.
Affected Post-Draft Trades [ ]
Minnesota United FC traded Chris Duvall to Montreal Impact for Johan Venegas and allocation money.[12]
Atlanta United FC traded Donny Toia to Orlando City SC for the #8 pick in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft .[12]
Atlanta United FC returned Clint Irwin to Toronto FC for Mark Bloom and allocation money.[12]
Minnesota United FC traded Jeff Attinella to Portland Timbers FC for their natural Second Round Pick in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft and the MLS Rights to Miguel Ibarra .[13]
Minnesota United FC returned Femi Hollinger-Janzen to the New England Revolution for Bobby Shuttleworth .
Minnesota United FC traded Saeid to Colorado Rapids .
Team-by-team-breakdown [ ]
Legend
Selected by Atlanta
Selected by Minnesota United FC
Chicago Fire [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Exposed
Protected
Exempt
David Arshakyan (INTL )
David Accam (DP )
Joey Calistri (HGP )
Răzvan Cociș
Arturo Álvarez
Drew Conner (HGP )
Eric Gehrig
Jonathan Campbell
Patrick Doody (HGP )
Michael Harrington
Michael de Leeuw (INTL )
Collin Fernandez (HGP )
Nick LaBrocca
John Goossens (INTL )
Patrick McLain
Johan Kappelhof (INTL )
Alex Morrell
Matt Lampson
Rodrigo Ramos (On loan from Coritiba ) (INTL )
João Meira (INTL )
Michael Stephens
Matt Polster
Khaly Thiam (On loan from MTK Budapest ) (INTL )
Luis Solignac
Brandon Vincent
Colorado Rapids [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Columbus Crew SC [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
D.C. United [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Exposed
Protected
Exempt
Bobby Boswell
Luciano Acosta (on loan from Boca Juniors ) (INTL )
Julian Büscher (GA ) (INTL )
Andrew Dykstra
Steve Birnbaum
Chris Durkin (HGP )
Sean Franklin
Nick DeLeon
Collin Martin (HGP )
Charlie Horton
Bill Hamid (HGP )
Jalen Robinson (HGP )
Jared Jeffrey
Taylor Kemp
Alhaji Kamara (INTL )
Patrick Mullins
Chris Korb
Lamar Neagle
Luke Mishu
Patrick Nyarko
Kofi Opare
Lloyd Sam
Chris Rolfe
Marcelo Sarvas
Alvaro Saborio
Rob Vincent
Travis Worra
FC Dallas [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Houston Dynamo [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Exposed
Protected
Exempt
Agus (INTL )
Alex
Tyler Deric (HGP )
Yair Arboleda (On loan from Santa Fe ) (INTL )
Eric Alexander
Sebastien Ibeagha (HGP )
DaMarcus Beasley (DP )
Jalil Anibaba
Christian Lucatero (HGP )
Calle Brown
Will Bruin
Keyner Brown (On loan from C.S. Herediano ) (INTL )
Ricardo Clark
Kevin Garcia
José Escalante (On loan from Olimpia ) (INTL )
David Horst
Boniek García
Rob Lovejoy
Mauro Manotas (DP ) (INTL )
Cristian Maidana (INTL )
Erick Torres (DP ) (INTL )
Abdoulie Mansally
Andrew Wenger
Raúl Rodríguez
Joe Willis
Zach Steinberger
Collen Warner
Sheanon Williams
LA Galaxy [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Montreal Impact [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
New England Revolution [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
New York City FC [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Exposed
Protected
Exempt
Connor Brandt
R. J. Allen
Jack Harrison (GA ) (INTL )
Federico Bravo (on loan from Boca Juniors ) (INTL )
Frederic Brillant (INTL )
Shannon Gomez (on loan from W Connection )
Maxime Chanot (INTL )
Jason Hernandez
Mix Diskerud
Eirik Johansen (INTL )
Sean Johnson
Frank Lampard (DP ) (INTL )
Mikey Lopez
Diego Martínez (INTL )
Ronald Matarrita (INTL )
Jefferson Mena (INTL )
Thomas McNamara
Stiven Mendoza (on loan from Corinthians ) (INTL )
Andrea Pirlo (DP ) (INTL )
Andre Rawls
Khiry Shelton
Josh Saunders
David Villa (DP ) (INTL )
Tony Taylor
Ethan White
New York Red Bulls [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Exposed
Protected
Exempt
Anatole Abang (INTL )
Aurélien Collin (INTL )
Tyler Adams (HGP )
Gideon Baah (INTL )
Felipe (INTL )
Brandon Allen (HGP )
Justin Bilyeu
Mike Grella
Sean Davis (HGP )
Omer Damari (DP ) (INTL )
Sacha Kljestan (DP )
Derrick Etienne (HGP )
Chris Duvall
Kemar Lawrence (INTL )
Connor Lade (HGP )
Aaron Long
Dax McCarty
Alex Muyl (HGP )
Karl Ouimette
Ryan Meara
Damien Perrinelle (INTL )
Luis Robles
Kyle Reynish
Daniel Royer (INTL )
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Gonzalo Verón (DP ) (INTL )
Sal Zizzo
Bradley Wright-Phillips (INTL )
Ronald Zubar (INTL )
Orlando City SC [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Exposed
Protected
Exempt
Kevin Alston
José Aja (On loan from Nacional ) (INTL )
Conor Donovan (GA )
Mikey Ambrose
Joe Bendik
Richie Laryea (GA ) (INTL )
Júlio Baptista (INTL )
Cristian Higuita
Tommy Redding (HGP )
Hadji Barry
Kaká (DP ) (INTL )
Mason Stajduhar (HGP )
Luke Boden
Cyle Larin
Tyler Turner (HGP )
Servando Carrasco
Kevin Molino
Earl Edwards Jr.
Antonio Nocerino (INTL )
Devron García (INTL )
Matías Pérez García (DP ) (INTL )
Seb Hines
Rafael Ramos (INTL )
David Mateos (INTL )
Carlos Rivas (DP )
Pedro Ribeiro
Brek Shea
Tony Rocha
Bryan Róchez (DP ) (INTL )
Philadelphia Union [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Exposed
Protected
Exempt
Tranquillo Barnetta (INTL )
Roland Alberg (INTL )
Fabian Herbers (GA ) (INTL )
Brian Carroll
Eric Ayuk (INTL )
Derrick Jones (HGP )
Anderson Conceição (On loan from Tombense ) (INTL )
Alejandro Bedoya (DP )
Auston Trusty (HGP )
Charlie Davies
Andre Blake
Josh Yaro (GA ) (INTL )
Maurice Edu (DP )
Warren Creavalle
Leo Fernandes
Fabinho
Ray Gaddis
Richie Marquez
Matt Jones (On loan from Belenenses )
Ilsinho (INTL )
John McCarthy
Chris Pontius
Cole Missimo
Keegan Rosenberry
Wálter Restrepo
C. J. Sapong
Ken Tribbett
Taylor Washington
Portland Timbers [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Real Salt Lake [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
San Jose Earthquakes [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Seattle Sounders FC [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Sporting Kansas City [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Toronto FC [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Vancouver Whitecaps FC [ ]
As of December 12, 2016
Exposed
Protected
Exempt
Fraser Aird
Christian Bolaños (INTL )
Sam Adekugbe (HGP )
Giles Barnes
Christian Dean
Marco Bustos (HGP )
Marcel De Jong
Jordan Harvey
Marco Carducci (HGP )
David Edgar
Erik Hurtado
Alphonso Davies (HGP )
Deybi Flores (INTL )
Andrew Jacobson
Kianz Froese (HGP )
Masato Kudo (INTL )
Matías Laba (DP ) (INTL )
Ben McKendry (HGP )
Brett Levis
Kekuta Manneh
Russell Teibert (HGP )
Pedro Morales (DP ) (INTL )
Nicolás Mezquida (INTL )
Blas Pérez
David Ousted (INTL )
Cole Seiler
Tim Parker
Jordan Smith (INTL )
Kendall Waston (INTL )
Cristian Techera (INTL )
Paolo Tornaghi
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