The list of eligible players for the 2022 MLS Expansion Draft was released on Thursday with a number of high-profile names available for selection by the league’s latest club, St. Louis CITY SC.
The Draft will take place on Friday at 7pm ET, with St. Louis CITY broadcasting the event live on their YouTube channel.
Read on to find out more about the Expansion Draft, rules, and which players are available for selection:
The MLS Expansion Draft is a mechanism by which new teams in the league can select up to five players from other teams to bolster their own roster.
Each team can only have up to one player selected from their roster by an expansion team before they’re removed from consideration, while clubs can choose to protect up to 12 players from the Draft. Teams will receive $50k General Allocation Money (GAM) in compensation should one of their players move in the Draft.
Once a club loses a player, it also makes them exempt from the next Expansion Draft, meaning Austin FC, Atlanta United, DC United, LAFC, and NYCFC are all safe from this year’s event after having players selected by Charlotte FC in 2021.
Expansion teams do not have to permanently sign selected players. Instead, they can choose to bargain them to other clubs in exchange for Allocation Money.
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Alcívar, Jordy
Armour, Adam
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Santos, Koa
Shinyashiki, Andre
Sisniega, Pablo
Sobocinski, Jan
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