2007 MLS expansion draft
{{Short description|Player draft for MLS teams}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox expansion draft
| name = 2007 MLS Expansion Draft
| date = November 21, 2007
| expansion_team = San Jose Earthquakes
| expansion_season = 2008
| prev = 2006
| next = 2008
}}
The 2007 MLS Expansion Draft was held on November 21, 2007, and is a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team San Jose Earthquakes. They made 10 selections from a pool of players from current MLS clubs.
Format
- Only one player may be selected from each team, three of the league's 13 current teams will not have a player selected.
- Teams will be allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. Generation adidas players are automatically protected, though players who are graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2007 season are not.
- Each team may only leave one senior international player unprotected. Players are considered SIs here based on their age for the 2008 season, not the 2007 season.
Expansion Draft
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| bgcolor="#eeeeee"
|# |Player |Position |Country |Previous club |
| 1
|Defender |{{USA}} |Houston Dynamo |
| 2
|Defender |{{USA}} |FC Dallas |
| 3
|Midfielder |{{USA}} |Columbus Crew |
| 4
|Defender-Midfielder |{{USA}} |New England Revolution |
| 5
|Midfielder |{{USA}} |New York Red Bulls |
| 6
|Midfielder |{{HON}} |Chicago Fire |
| 7
|Midfielder |{{USA}} |D.C. United |
| 8
|Defender |{{PUR}} |Chivas USA |
| 9
|Forward |{{flagcountry|Turks and Caicos Islands}} |LA Galaxy |
| 10
|Defender |{{CAN}} |Toronto FC |
Team-by-team breakdown
[https://web.archive.org/web/20080206145112/http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20071119&content_id=130396&vkey=pr_mls&fext=.jsp Source]
=C.D. Chivas USA=
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Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| David Arvizu | Jonathan Bornstein | |
| Desmond Brooks | Maykel Galindo | |
| Bobby Burling | Brad Guzan | |
| Preston Burpo | Sacha Kljestan | |
| John Cunliffe | Jesse Marsch | |
| Jorge Flores | Francisco Mendoza | |
| Amado Guevara | Paulo Nagamura | |
| Anthony Hamilton | Ante Razov | |
| Jason Hernandez | Claudio Suárez | |
| Carlos Llamosa | Shavar Thomas | |
| Rodrigo López | Lawson Vaughn | |
| Laurent Merlin | ||
| Justin Myers | ||
| Ramón Núñez | ||
| Orlando Perez | ||
| Eder Robles | ||
| Erasmo Solorzano | ||
| Alex Zotinca |
=Chicago Fire=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Jon Busch | Chad Barrett | Bakary Soumaré |
| Floyd Franks | Cuauhtémoc Blanco | |
| Mike Banner | C.J. Brown | |
| Jeff Curtin | Calen Carr | |
| Jim Curtin | Wilman Conde | |
| Iván Guerrero | Justin Mapp | |
| Diego Gutierrez | Logan Pause | |
| Bruno Menezes | Matt Pickens | |
| Nick Noble | Dasan Robinson | |
| Brian Plotkin | Chris Rolfe | |
| Jordan Russolillo | Gonzalo Segares | |
| Osei Telesford | ||
| John Thorrington | ||
| Daniel Woolard |
=Colorado Rapids=
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| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| José Cancela | Mehdi Ballouchy | Nico Colaluca |
| Conor Casey | Colin Clark | |
| John DiRaimondo | Terry Cooke | |
| Dan Gargan | Bouna Coundoul | |
| Jordan Harvey | Omar Cummings | |
| Nicolas Hernández | Facundo Erpen | |
| Justin Hughes | Herculez Gomez | |
| Stephen Keel | Ugo Ihemelu | |
| Jovan Kirovski | Kosuke Kimura | |
| Nick LaBrocca | Pablo Mastroeni | |
| Mike Petke | Jacob Peterson | |
| Brandon Prideaux | ||
| Tony Sanneh | ||
| Zach Thornton | ||
| Clifton Wilmes |
=Columbus Crew=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Jason Garey | Brad Evans | Kei Kamara |
| Bill Gaudette | Eddie Gaven | Robbie Rogers |
| Ned Grabavoy | Marcos González | Tim Ward |
| Leonard Griffin | Frankie Hejduk | Jed Zayner |
| Andy Gruenebaum | Ezra Hendrickson | |
| Andy Herron | Will Hesmer | |
| Ben Hunter | Chad Marshall | |
| Ryan Junge | Alejandro Moreno | |
| Stefani Miglioranzi | Danny O'Rourke | |
| Adam Moffat | Duncan Oughton | |
| Brandon Moss | Guillermo Barros Schelotto | |
| Andrei Pacheco | ||
| Andrew Peterson | ||
| Rusty Pierce | ||
| Jacob Thomas | ||
| Ricardo Virtuoso |
=D.C. United=
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| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Addlery | Bobby Boswell | Bryan Arguez |
| Brian Carroll | Marc Burch | |
| Jeff Carroll | Luciano Emilio | |
| Shawn Crowe | Fred | |
| Stephen deRoux | Christian Gómez | |
| Rod Dyachenko | Devon McTavish | |
| Joshua Gros | Jaime Moreno | |
| Guy-Roland Kpene | Bryan Namoff | |
| Domenic Mediate | Ben Olsen | |
| Jerson Monteiro | Troy Perkins | |
| Justin Moose | Clyde Simms | |
| Mira Mupier | ||
| Jay Nolly | ||
| Brad North | ||
| Greg Vanney | ||
| Jamil Walker |
=F.C. Dallas=
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| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Juan Sebastián Botero | Arturo Alvarez | Abdus Ibrahim |
| Andrew Daniels | Ray Burse | Blake Wagner |
| Michael Dello-Russo | Kenny Cooper | Anthony Wallace |
| Denílson | Dax McCarty | |
| Chris Gbandi | Drew Moor | |
| Sandy Gbandi | Ricardinho | |
| Clarence Goodson | Pablo Ricchetti | |
| Scott Jones | Carlos Ruíz | |
| Roberto Miña | Marcelo Saragosa | |
| Dominic Oduro | Adrian Serioux | |
| Aaron Pitchkolan | Juan Toja | |
| Bobby Rhine | ||
| Darío Sala | ||
| Abe Thompson | ||
| David Wagenfuhr | ||
| Chase Wileman | ||
| Alex Yi |
=Houston Dynamo=
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| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Corey Ashe | Wade Barrett | Patrick Ianni |
| Mike Chabala | Brian Ching | |
| Ryan Cochrane | Ricardo Clark | |
| Paul Dalglish | Brad Davis | |
| Eric Ebert | Dwayne De Rosario | |
| Nick Hatzke | Nate Jaqua | |
| John Michael Hayden | Stuart Holden | |
| Kenneth Hoerner | Brian Mullan | |
| Jordan James | Richard Mulrooney | |
| Pat Onstad | Joseph Ngwenya | |
| Erik Ustruck | Eddie Robinson | |
| Craig Waibel | ||
| Zach Wells | ||
| Chris Wondolowski | ||
| Stephen Wondolowski |
=Kansas City Wizards=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Jose Burciaga Jr. | Davy Arnaud | |
| Eloy Colombano | Jimmy Conrad | |
| Edson Elcock | Nick Garcia | |
| A. J. Godbolt | Michael Harrington | |
| Willy Guadarrama | Jack Jewsbury | |
| Kevin Hartman | Eddie Johnson | |
| Aaron Hohlbein | Carlos Marinelli | |
| Will John | Kurt Morsink | |
| Chris Konopka | Scott Sealy | |
| Michael Kraus | Sasha Victorine | |
| Eric Kronberg | Kerry Zavagnin | |
| Amir Lowery | ||
| Ryan McMahen | ||
| Ryan Pore | ||
| Ryan Raybould | ||
| Tyson Wahl | ||
| Lance Watson |
=Los Angeles Galaxy=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Steve Cronin | Chris Albright | Quavas Kirk |
| Mike Caso | David Beckham | Israel Sesay |
| Lance Friesz | Edson Buddle | |
| Gavin Glinton | Joe Cannon | |
| Alan Gordon | Landon Donovan | |
| Kelly Gray | Ty Harden | |
| Kevin Harmse | Ante Jazic | |
| Kyle Martino | Chris Klein | |
| Clint Mathis | Carlos Pavón | |
| Josh Tudela | Mike Randolph | |
| Peter Vagenas | Troy Roberts | |
| Kyle Veris | ||
| Abel Xavier |
=New England Revolution=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Bryan Byrne | Adam Cristman | Amaechi Igwe |
| Andy Dorman | Jay Heaps | |
| Gary Flood | Shalrie Joseph | |
| Joe Franchino | Jeff Larentowicz | |
| Miguel Gonzalez | Pat Noonan | |
| Kyle Helton | Michael Parkhurst | |
| Avery John | Steve Ralston | |
| Brad Knighton | Matt Reis | |
| Marshall Leonard | Khano Smith | |
| Chris Loftus | Wells Thompson | |
| Kenny Mansally | Taylor Twellman | |
| Sainey Nyassi | ||
| James Riley | ||
| Willie Sims | ||
| Doug Warren |
=New York Red Bulls=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sal Caccavale | Jozy Altidore | |
| Blake Camp | Juan Pablo Ángel | |
| Danny Cepero | Jon Conway | |
| Francis Doe | Hunter Freeman | |
| Kevin Goldthwaite | Dema Kovalenko | |
| Elie Ikangu | Carlos Mendes | |
| Chris Karcz | Jeff Parke | |
| Jerrod Laventure | Claudio Reyna | |
| Chris Leitch | Dane Richards | |
| Mike Magee | Seth Stammler | |
| Randi Patterson | Dave van den Bergh | |
| Santino Quaranta | ||
| Markus Schopp | ||
| Siniša Ubiparipović | ||
| Joe Vide | ||
| John Wolyniec |
=Real Salt Lake=
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| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Chris Brown | Kyle Beckerman | Nikolas Besagno |
| Kyle Brown | Alecko Eskandarian | Yura Movsisyan |
| Steven Curfman | Fabian Espindola | Chris Seitz |
| Kenny Cutler | Robbie Findley | |
| Willis Forko | Atiba Harris | |
| Duke Hashimoto | Matias Mantilla | |
| Christian Jimenez | Javier Morales | |
| Jean-Martial Kipre | Nick Rimando | |
| Dustin Kirby | Nathan Sturgis | |
| Ritchie Kotschau | Carey Talley | |
| Chris Lancos | Chris Wingert | |
| Kyle Reynish | ||
| Jack Stewart | ||
| Jamie Watson | ||
| Andy Williams |
=Toronto FC=
| class="wikitable" | ||
| style="width:23%"|
Exposed !style="width:25%"| Protected !style="width:25%"| Exempt | ||
|---|---|---|
| Nana Attakora-Gyan | Jim Brennan | |
| Andrew Boyens | Jeff Cunningham | |
| Adam Braz | Danny Dichio | |
| Miguel Cañizález | Todd Dunivant | |
| Srdjan Djekanovic | Maurice Edu | |
| Gabe Gala | Tyrone Marshall | |
| David Guzmán | Ronnie O'Brien | |
| Tyler Hemming | Carl Robinson | |
| Andrea Lombardo | Collin Samuel | |
| Stephen Lumley | Greg Sutton | |
| Joey Melo | Marvell Wynne | |
| Christian Núñez | ||
| Chris Pozniak | ||
| Marco Reda | ||
| Kyriakos Stamatopoulos |
{{2008 MLS season by team}}
{{MLS drafts}}
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Category:Major League Soccer expansion draft