2016 MLS expansion draft

{{Short description|Player draft for MLS teams}}

{{Infobox expansion draft

| name = 2016 MLS Expansion Draft

| date = December 13, 2016 {{Cite web |url=http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/2016-expansion-draft-rules-and-regulations |title=2016 Expansion Draft Rules and Regulations |location=MLS |access-date=2016-09-13 |archive-date=2016-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916053320/http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/2016-expansion-draft-rules-and-regulations |url-status=dead }}

| expansion_teams = Atlanta United FC
Minnesota United FC

| expansion_season = 2017

| prev = 2014

| next = 2017

}}

The 2016 MLS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion teams Atlanta United FC and Minnesota United FC.{{cite web|title=Minnesota United join MLS: How they'll build a roster in the months ahead|url=http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/08/19/minnesota-united-join-mls-how-theyll-build-roster-months-ahead|publisher=MLSsoccer.com|accessdate=22 August 2016}} Atlanta United was selected to pick first by an "Expansion Priority Draft" conducted on October 16, 2016.{{cite web|title=MLS releases Expansion Draft rules as Atlanta, Minnesota prepare for 2017|url=http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/09/13/mls-releases-expansion-draft-rules-atlanta-minnesota-prepare-2017|publisher=MLSsoccer.com|accessdate=13 September 2016}} Protected rosters are based on an MLS release from December 12, 2016.{{cite web|title=2016 MLS Expansion Draft protected and unprotected lists|url=http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/12/12/2016-mls-expansion-draft-protected-and-unprotected-lists#|publisher=MLSsoccer.com|accessdate=12 December 2016}}

Format

These are the rules for the 2016 MLS Expansion Draft as laid out by Major League Soccer.{{cite web|title=2016 Expansion Draft Rules and Regulations|url=http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/2016-expansion-draft-rules-and-regulations|publisher=MLSsoccer.com|accessdate=13 September 2016|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916053320/http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/2016-expansion-draft-rules-and-regulations|url-status=dead}}

  • 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.{{cite web|title=MLS releases Expansion Draft rules as Atlanta, Minnesota prepare for 2017|url=http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/09/13/mls-releases-expansion-draft-rules-atlanta-minnesota-prepare-2017|publisher=MLSsoccer.com|accessdate=13 September 2016}}
  • 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{{cite web|title=MLS releases Expansion Draft rules as Atlanta, Minnesota prepare for 2017|url=http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/09/13/mls-releases-expansion-draft-rules-atlanta-minnesota-prepare-2017|publisher=MLSsoccer.com|accessdate=13 September 2016}}
  • The expansion draft will last 5 rounds totaling 10 players to be drafted.{{cite web|title=MLS releases Expansion Draft rules as Atlanta, Minnesota prepare for 2017|url=http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/09/13/mls-releases-expansion-draft-rules-atlanta-minnesota-prepare-2017|publisher=MLSsoccer.com|accessdate=13 September 2016}}

Expansion Draft order

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Pick

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MLS Team

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Player

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Previous Team

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Trade Notes

1

| style="background: #F2CED4"|Atlanta United FC

| Donny Toia

| Montreal Impact

| Traded to Orlando City SC on December 13, 2016.

2

| style="background: #CEE0F2"|Minnesota United FC

| Chris Duvall

| New York Red Bulls

| Traded to Montreal Impact on December 13, 2016.

3

| style="background: #F2CED4"|Atlanta United FC

| Zach Loyd

| FC Dallas

|

4

| style="background: #CEE0F2"|Minnesota United FC

| Collen Warner

| Houston Dynamo

|

5

| style="background: #F2CED4"|Atlanta United FC

| Clint Irwin

| Toronto FC

| Traded back to Toronto FC on December 13, 2016.

6

| style="background: #CEE0F2"|Minnesota United FC

| Mohammed Saeid

| Columbus Crew SC

| Traded to Colorado Rapids on March 31, 2017.{{Cite web |url=https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/03/31/reports-colorado-trade-cronin-burch-minnesota-saeid-gatt |title=Minnesota acquire Cronin and Burch, trade Saeid and Gatt to Colorado |publisher=MLSsoccer.com}}

7

| style="background: #F2CED4"|Atlanta United FC

| Mikey Ambrose

| Orlando City SC

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8

| style="background: #CEE0F2"|Minnesota United FC

| Jeff Attinella

| Real Salt Lake

| Traded to Portland Timbers{{Cite web |url=http://www.mnufc.com/post/2016/12/20/minnesota-united-swaps-player-pick |title=Minnesota United Swaps Player For Pick |publisher=Minnesota United FC}} on December 20, 2016.

9

| style="background: #F2CED4"|Atlanta United FC

| Alec Kann

| Sporting Kansas City

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10

| style="background: #CEE0F2"|Minnesota United FC

| Femi Hollinger-Janzen

| New England Revolution

|Traded back to New England Revolution{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/02/15/new-england-trade-bobby-shuttleworth-minnesota-femi-hollinger-janzen|title=New England trade Bobby Shuttleworth to Minnesota for Femi Hollinger-Janzen|last=Rodriguez|first=Alicia|date=February 25, 2017|website=MLSSoccer.com}} on February 15, 2017.

Affected Post-Draft Trades

  • Minnesota United FC traded Chris Duvall to Montreal Impact for Johan Venegas and allocation money.{{cite web|title=Minnesota United, Atlanta United wheel and deal after Expansion Draft|url=http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/12/13/minnesota-united-atlanta-united-wheel-and-deal-after-expansion-draft|website=MLSSoccer.com|accessdate=14 December 2016}}
  • Atlanta United FC traded Donny Toia to Orlando City SC for the #8 pick in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft.
  • Atlanta United FC returned Clint Irwin to Toronto FC for Mark Bloom and allocation money.
  • 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.
  • 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

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| style="background: #F2CED4"| Selected by Atlanta

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| style="background: #CEE0F2"| Selected by Minnesota United FC

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References

{{Reflist}}

{{Major League Soccer}}

{{MLS drafts}}

Category:Major League Soccer expansion draft

MLS Expansion Draft