2014 MLS Expansion Draft

The 2014 MLS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion teams New York City FC and Orlando City SC. As determined by a "Priority Draft" conducted September 24, 2014, Orlando City SC selected first.

The draft was conducted by conference call at 2:00 pm EST (UTC-5) on December 10, 2014.^[1]

Format

• Existing teams were allowed to protect 11 players from their rosters. Generation Adidas players and Homegrown Players on supplemental rosters were automatically protected, though players who graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2014 season were not.^[2]
• Once a player was claimed from a club’s non-protected roster, that club was allowed to move a player from its non-protected roster to its protected roster.^[3]
• Once two players were claimed from a team’s non-protected roster, that team was eliminated from the expansion draft and not allowed to lose any further players.^[4]

Draft

Five teams lost two players in the draft: Colorado Rapids, Columbus Crew, D.C. United, New England Revolution, and Real Salt Lake. Three teams did not lose any players: Chicago Fire, LA Galaxy, and New York Red Bulls. The remaining teams lost one player each.

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