2014 MLS Expansion Draft

2014 MLS Expansion Draft
Date	December 10, 2014
Expansion teams	New York City FC Orlando City SC
Expansion season	2015
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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

Pick	MLS Team	Player	Previous Team
1	Orlando City SC	Donovan Ricketts	Portland Timbers
2	New York City FC	Ned Grabavoy	Real Salt Lake
3	Orlando City SC	Tony Cascio	Colorado Rapids
4	New York City FC	Patrick Mullins	New England Revolution
5	Orlando City SC	Jalil Anibaba	Seattle Sounders FC
6	New York City FC	Jason Hernandez	San Jose Earthquakes
7	Orlando City SC	Pedro Ribeiro	Philadelphia Union
8	New York City FC	Daniel Lovitz	Toronto FC
9	Orlando City SC	Lewis Neal	D.C. United
10	New York City FC	Tony Taylor	New England Revolution
11	Orlando City SC	Jairo Arrieta	Columbus Crew
12	New York City FC	Mehdi Ballouchy	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
13	Orlando City SC	Heath Pearce	Montreal Impact
14	New York City FC	George John	FC Dallas
15	Orlando City SC	Danny Mwanga	Colorado Rapids
16	New York City FC	Tommy McNamara	D.C. United
17	Orlando City SC	Mark Sherrod	Houston Dynamo
18	New York City FC	Sal Zizzo	Sporting Kansas City
19	Orlando City SC	Eric Gehrig	Columbus Crew
20	New York City FC	Chris Wingert	Real Salt Lake

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.

References

1. http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2014/12/09/mls-expansion-draft-listen-live-new-york-city-fc-orlando-city-sc-build-out-r
2. "Orlando City take top picks in 2015 Expansion Draft, MLS SuperDraft; NYCFC atop Allocation Ranking". MLSsoccer.com. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
3. http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/2014-expansion-draft-rules
4. http://pressbox.mlssoccer.com/content/2014-expansion-draft-rules