2017 MLS Expansion Draft protected and unprotected lists

The 2017 MLS Expansion Draft will be held at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday, December 12.

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LAFC may select up to five players from the eligible MLS player pool. Only a single player can be drafted from any one club.

Generation adidas (GA) and off-budget Homegrown Players (HG) are automatically exempt, current MLS clubs may protect up to 11 players from selection in the Expansion Draft. Players eligible for free agency (FA) are not exempt.

Columbus Crew SC
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Francis, Waylon Hansen, Niko Hollingsworth, Marshall Jahn, Adam Jimenez, Hector Ketterer, Logan Maloney, Connor Martinez, Cristian (INT'L) Mensah, Jonathan (INT'L) Obinwa, Abuchi Raitala, Jukka (INT'L) Saravia, Rodrigo (INT'L) Sauro, Gaston Stuver, Brad Williams, Josh	Abu, Mohammed (INT'L) Abubaker, Lalas (INT'L) Afful, Harrison Artur de Lima Junior, Jose (INT'L) Higuain, Federico Kamara, Ola (INT'L) Manneh, Kekuta Dos Santos, Pedro (INT'L) Meram, Justin Steffen, Zack Trapp, Wil Automatically Protected: Crognale, Alex (HG) Swanson, Ben (HG)

Atlanta United
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Ambrose, Mikey Asad, Yamil (INT'L) Bloom, Mark Boswell, Bobby [FA] Kratz, Kevin Larentowicz, Jeff [FA] Loyd, Zach [FA] McCann, Chris Mears, Tyrone Oliveira, Kevin (INT'L) Otoo, Jeffrey (INT'L) Pasher, Tyler (INT'L) Peterson, Jacob Reynish, Kyle [FA] Walkes, Anton (INT'L) Wheeler-Omiunu, Andrew Williams, Romario (INT'L)	Almiron, Miguel (INT'L) Carmona, Carlos (INT'L) Garza, Greg Gressel, Julian (INT'L) Guzan, Brad Kann, Alec Martinez, Josef (INT'L) Parkhurst, Michael Pirez, Leandro (INT'L) Vazquez, Brandon Villalba, Hector (INT'L) Automatically Protected: Carleton, Andrew (HG) Goslin, Christopher (HG) Robinson, Miles (GA)

Chicago Fire
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Arshakyan, David (INT'L) Bava, Rodrigo (INT'L) Bronico, Brandt Cleveland, Stefan Corrales, Jorge de Leeuw, Michael (INT'L) Dean, Christian Dekovic, Matej (INT'L) Goossens, John (INT'L) Harrington, Michael [FA] Johnson, Daniel Lampson, Matt Meira, Joao (INT'L)	Accam, David Campbell, Jonathan Kappelhof, Johan (INT'L) McCarty, Dax Nikolic, Nemanja (INT'L) Pereira, Vitor "Juninho" Polster, Matt Sanchez, Richard Schweinsteiger, Bastian (INT'L) Solignac, Luis (INT'L) Vincent, Brandon Automatically Protected: Conner, Drew (HG) Fernandez, Collin (HG) Mihailovic, Djordje (HG) Doody, Patrick (HG) Calistri, Joey (HG)

Colorado Rapids
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Berner, John Burling, Bobby [FA] Castillo, Dennis (INT'L) Da Fonte, Mike Gatt, Joshua Gil, Luis Gordon, Alan [FA] Hamilton, Sam Saeid, Mohammed (INT'L) Williams, Mekeil (INT'L)	Aigner, Stefan (INT'L) Azira, Michael Badji, Dominique (INT'L) Boateng, Bismark (INT'L) Gashi, Shkelzen (INT'L) Hairston, Marlon Howard, Tim MacMath, Zac Miller, Eric Sjoberg, Axel Watts, Jared Automatically Protected: Calvert, Caleb (HG) Ford, Kortne (HG) Serna, Dillon (HG) Perez, Ricardo (HG) Doyle, Kevin (Retired)

D.C. United
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Brown, Deshorn (INT'L) Buescher, Julian (INT'L) Clark, Steve Franklin, Sean [FA] Hamid, Bill Jeffrey, Jared Klenofsky, Eric Korb, Christopher Miranda, Bruno (INT'L) Nyarko, Patrick [FA] Odio-Atsem, Chris Rolfe, Chris [FA] Sam, Lloyd Sarvas, Marcelo Vincent, Rob Worra, Travis	Acosta, Luciano (INT'L) Arriola, Paul Birnbaum, Steven Brillant, Frederic (INT'L) Canouse, Russell DeLeon, Nick Kemp, Taylor Mattocks, Darren Mullins, Patrick Opare, Kofi Stieber, Zoltan (INT'L) Automatically Protected: Durkin, Chris (HG) Harkes, Ian (HG) Robinson, Jalen (HG)

FC Dallas
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Cermeno, Carlos (INT'L) Chala, Anibal (INT'L) Cortes, Eduardo Figueroa, Maynor (INT'L) Gonzalez, Luis (INT'L) Grana, Hernan (INT'L) Harris, Atiba [FA] Hume, Walker Lamah, Roland (INT'L) Morales, Javier [FA] Seitz, Chris [FA]	Acosta, Kellyn Akindele, Tesho Barrios, Michael (INT'L) Colman, Cristian (INT'L) Diaz, Mauro Gruezo, Carlos (INT'L) Hayes, Jacori Hedges, Matt Hollingshead, Ryan Ulloa, Victor Urruti, Maximiliano Automatically Protected: Craft, Coy (HG) Gonzalez, JesseHG Reynolds, Bryan (HG) Pomykal, Paxton (HG) Guillen, Aaron (HG) Ferreira, Jesus (HG) Cannon, Reginald (HG) Reid, Adonijah (GA-Canada)

Houston Dynamo
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Alexander, Eric [FA] Alvarez, Arturo Anibaba, Jalil Beasley, DaMarcus [FA] Boniek Garcia, Oscar Brown, Calle Clark, Ricardo [FA] DeLaGarza, AJ [FA] Escalante, Jose (INT'L) Garcia, Kevin Holland, Joseph (INT'L) Hunter, Taylor Malki, George Monteiro de Lima, Alex Sanchez, Vicente Senderos, Philippe (INT'L) Ward, Charlie (INT'L)	Cabezas, Juan David (INT'L) da Silva, Leonardo Elis, Alberth (INT'L) Machado, Adolfo (INT'L) Manotas, Mauro Martinez, Tomas (INT'L) Quioto, Romell (INT'L) Remick, Dylan Torres, Erick Wenger, Andrew Willis, Joe Automatically Protected: Deric, Tyler (HG) Rodriguez, Jose (HG) Lucatero, Christian (HG)

LA Galaxy
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Ciani, Michael (INT'L) Diallo, Bradley (INT'L) Diop, Clement Garcia, Rafael Jones, Jermaine Kempin, Jon Lassiter, Ariel McInerney, Jack Rowe, Brian Van Anholt, Kingsley Pele (INT'L)	Alessandrini, Romain (INT'L) Almeida Machado, Joao (INT'L) Boateng, Emmanuel Cole, Ashley (INT'L) dos Santos, Giovani (INT'L) dos Santos, Jonathan (INT'L) Husidic, Baggio Lletget, Sebastian Romney, David Steres, Daniel Zardes, Gyasi Automatically Protected: Rogers, Robbie (Retired) Arellano, Hugo (HG) Villarreal, Jose (HG) Mendiola, Raul (HG/INT'L) Villarreal, Jaime (HG) Smith, Nathan (HG) Jamieson, Bradford (HG) McBean, Jack (HG)

Minnesota United
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Anor, Bernardo (INT'L) Davis, Justin De Villardi, Thomas Demidov, Vadim (INT'L) Grennspan, Joseph Ibarra, Miguel Jome, Ismaila Kapp, Alex Martin Leiton, Jose (INT'L) McLain, Patrick Nicholson, Sam (INT'L) Schuller, Rasmus (INT'L) Taylor, Jermaine Venegas, Johan (INT'L) Venegas, Kevin Warner, Collen	Barreto da Silva, Ibson Boxall, Michael (INT'L) Burch, Marc Calvo, Francisco (INT'L) Cronin, Sam Finlay, Ethan Kallman, Brent Molino, Kevin Ramirez, Christian Shuttleworth, Robert Thiesson, Jerome (INT'L) Automatically Protected: Danladi, Abu (GA/INT'L) Martin, Collin (HG) Heath, Harrison (HG)

Montreal Impact
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Bernardello, Hernan (INT'L) Bernier, Patrice Boldor, Dein (INT'L) Camara, Hassoun DePuy, Nick Francis, Shaun [FA] Kronberg, Eric [FA] Lefevre, Wandrille Mancosu, Matteo (INT'L) Oduro, Dominic Romero, Andres (INT'L) Salazar, Michael	Bitolo Oyongo, Ambroise (INT'L) Bush, Evan Cabrera, Victor (INT'L) Ciman, Laurent (INT'L) Donadel, Marco (INT'L) Duvall, Chris Džemali, Blerim (INT'L) Fisher, Kyle Lovitz, Daniel Piatti, Ignacio (INT'L) Piette, Samuel Automatically Protected: Choiniere, David (HG) Crepeau, Maxime (HG) Beland-Goyette, Louis (HG) Jackson-Hamel, Anthony (HG) Shome, Shamit (GA-Canada) Tabla, Jean-Yves (HG)

New England Revolution
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Angoua, Brou Benjamin (INT'L) Hollinger-Janzen, Femi Knighton, Brad [FA] Kobayashi, Daigo Kouassi, Xavier (INT'L) Smith, Donnie Smith, Josh Tierney, Chris Turner, Matt Watson, JeVaughn Woodberry, London Wright, Brian	Agudelo, Juan Bunbury, Teal Cropper, Cody Delamea Mlinar, Antonio (INT'L) Dielna, Claude (INT'L) Fagundez, Diego Farrell, Andrew Koffie, Gershon (INT'L) Nemeth, Krisztian (INT'L) Nguyen, Lee Rowe, Kelyn Automatically Protected: Caldwell, Scott (HG) Herivaux, Zachary (HG)

New York City FC
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Allen, RJ Awuah, Kwame Camargo, Miguel (INT'L) Chanot, Maxime (INT'L) Gomez, Shannon Johansen, Eirik Lopez, Mikey Mena, Jefferson (INT'L) Okoli, Sean Rawls, Andre Shelton, Khiry Stertzer, John Struna, Andraz (INT'L) White, Ethan	Callens, Alexander (INT'L) Harrison, Jack Herrera, Yangel (INT'L) Johnson, Sean Matarrita, Ronald McNamara, Thomas Moralez, Maxi (INT'L) Ring, Alexander (INT'L) Sweat, Ben Villa, David (INT'L) Wallace, Rodney Automatically Protected: Lewis, Jonathan (GA) Sands, James (HG) Pirlo, Andrea (Retired)

New York Red Bulls
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Abang, Anatole (INT'L) Baah, Gideon (INT'L) Bezecourt, Vincent (INT'L) Collin, Aurelien (INT'L) Duka, Dilly [FA] Grella, Mike Keita, Muhammed (INT'L) Lade, Connor Lewis, Zeiko (INT'L) Metzger, Dan Ndam Fouapon, Hassan (INT'L) Perrinelle, Damien (INT'L) Zizzo, Sal [FA]	Campanholi, Felipe Escobar, Fidel (INT'L) Kljestan, Sacha Lawrence, Kemar (INT'L) Long, Aaron Meara, Ryan Murillo, Michael (INT'L) Robles, Luis Royer, Daniel (INT'L) Veron, Gonzalo (INT'L) Wright-Phillips, Bradley Automatically Protected: Adams, Tyler (HG) Davis, Sean (HG) Etienne, Derrick (HG) Basuljevic, Arun (HG) Muyl, Alex (HG) Louro, Evan (HG) Allen, Brandon (HG)

Orlando City SC
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Alston, Kevin Barnes, Giles [FA] Barry, Hadji Carrasco, Servando Da Silva, Pierre Donovan, Conor Edwards Jr., Earle Garcia, Devron (INT'L) Giro, Victor (INT'L) Hines, Sebastian Nocerino, Antonio Pereira, Leonardo (INT'L) Powers, Dillon Ramos, Rafael Rocha, Tony Saunders, Josh [FA]	Alston, Kevin Barnes, Giles Barry, Hadji Carrasco, Servando Da Silva, Pierre Donovan, Conor Edwards Jr., Earle Garcia, Devron (INT'L) Giro, Victor (INT'L) Hines, Sebastian Nocerino, Antonio Pereira, Leonardo (INT'L) Powers, Dillon Ramos, Rafael Rocha, Tony Saunders, Josh Automatically Protected: Laryea, Richmond (GA/INT'L) Redding, Tommy (HG) Stajduhar, Mason (HG) Kaka (Retired)

Philadelphia Union
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Alberg, Roland (INT'L) Ayuk, Eric (INT'L) Creavalle, Warren Davies, Charlies Edu, Maurice Gaddis, Raymon Jones, Aaron (INT'L) Marquez, Richard McCarthy, John McGuire, Jake Onyewu, Oguchi Pontius, Chris [FA] Simpson, Jay (INT'L) Tribbett, Ken Wijnaldum, Giliano (INT'L)	Bedoya, Alejandro Blake, AndreINT'L Elliott, Jack (INT'L) Epps, Marcus Fabinho Herbers, Fabian Medunjanin, Haris (INT'L) Pereira Dias Junior, Ilson (INT'L) Picault, Fabrice Rosenberry, Keegan Sapong, CJ Automatically Protected: Najem, Adam (HG) Jones, Derrick (HG) Trusty, Auston (HG) Yaro, Joshua (INT'L/GA) Carroll, Brian (Retired)

Portland Timbers
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Arboleda, Victor (INT'L) Arokoyo, Gbenga (INT'L) Attinella, Jeff Barmby, Jack (INT'L) Clarke, Rennico (INT'L) Gleeson, Jake McIntosh, Kendall Melano, Lucas (INT'L/On Loan) Miller, Roy Myers, Chance Okugo, Amobi Olum, Lawrence Tuiloma, Bill (INT'L) Valentin, Zarek Zemanski, Ben [FA]	Adi, Fanendo Andriuskevicius, Vytautas Asprilla, Dairon Blanco, Sebastian (INT'L) Chara, Diego Guzman, David (INT'L) Mabiala, Larrys (INT'L) Nagbe, Darlington Powell, Alvas Ridgewell, Liam Valeri, Diego Automatically Protected: Ebobisse, Jeremy (GA) Farfan, Marco (HG)

Real Salt Lake
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Barrett, Chad [FA] Beltran, Tony Besler, Nick Dunk, Reagan Holness, Omar (INT'L) Movsisyan, Yura Obayan Sunday, Stephen Phillips, Demar (INT'L) Schmidt, Justin Schuler, Chris [FA] Sparrow, Connor Van Oekel, Matt Wingert, Chris [FA]	Beckerman, Kyle Glad, Justen Horst, David Mulholland, Luke Plata, Joao Rimando, Nick Rusnak, Albert (INT'L) Saucedo, Sebastian Savarino, Jefferson (INT'L) Silva, Luis Silva, Marcelo (INT'L) Automatically Protected: Acosta, Danilo (HG) Allen, Jordan (HG) Hernandez, Jose (HG/INT'L) Lennon, Brooks (HG) Velazco, Ricardo (HG)

San Jose Earthquakes
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Affolter, Francois (INT'L) Amarikwa, Quincy Barrera, Leandro (INT'L) Bernardez, Victor Bersano, Matt Cato, Cordell Colvey, Kip Cummings, Harold (INT'L) Dawkins, Simon (INT'L) Imperiale, Andres (INT'L) Mfeka, Lindo (INT'L) Pelosi, Marc Sarkodie, Kofi Silva, Matheus (INT'L) Urena, Marco (INT'L)	Alashe, Fatai Bingham, David Ceren, Darwin Godoy, Anibal (INT'L) Hoesen, Danny (INT'L) Hyka, Jahmir (INT'L) Jungwirth, Florian (INT'L) Qazaishvili, Valeri (INT'L) Salinas, Shea Tarbell, Andrew Wondolowski, Chris Automatically Protected: Thompson, Tommy (HG) Lima, Nick (HG) Yueill, Jackson (GA) Wynne, Marvell (Retired)

Seattle Sounders
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Alfaro, Tony Alonso, Osvaldo Delem, Jordy (INT'L) Evans, Brad Fisher, Oneil Jones, Joevin (INT'L) Mallace, Calum Mathers, Zach Meredith, Bryan Miller, Tyler Neagle, Lamar Shipp, Harry	Bruin, Will Dempsey, Clint Frei, Stefan Leerdam, Kevin (INT'L) Lodeiro, Nicolas (INT'L) Marshall, Chad Rodriguez, Victor (INT'L) Roldan, Cristian Svensson, Gustav (INT'L) Tolo, Nouhou (INT'L) Torres, Roman (INT'L) Automatically Protected: Adekoya, Seyi (HG) Kovar, Aaron (HG) Wingo, Henry (HG) Morris, Jordan (HG)

Sporting KC
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Abdul-Salaam, Saad Belmar, Kharlton Blessing, Latif Didic, Amer Dykstra, Andrew Iwasa, Cameron Jones, Kenwyne Kostner, Diego Mustivar, Soni (INT'L) Porter, Cameron Saad, Soony Sinovic, Seth Storm, Colton Tambakis, Alexander Zendejas, Adrian	Besler, Matthew Espinoza, Roger Feilhaber, Benny Fernandes, Gerso Lobato, Cristian (INT'L) Medranda, Jimmy Melia, Tim Musa, James (INT'L) Opara, Ike Sanchez, Ilie Zusi, Graham Automatically Protected: Ellis, Kevin (HG) Busio, Gianluca (HG) Palmer-Brown, Erik (HG) Salloi, Daniel (HG/INT'L)

Toronto FC
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Alseth, Oyvind (INT'L) Aubrey, Brandon Beitashour, Steven Cheyrou, Benoit (INT'L) Cooper, Armando (INT'L) Edwards, Raheem Endo, Tsubasa (INT'L) Hasler, Nicholas (INT'L) Hernandez, Jason Irwin, Clint Moor, Drew Pais, Mark Ricketts, Tosaint	Altidore, Jozy Bono, Alex Bradley, Michael Delgado, Marco Giovinco, Sebastian (INT'L) Hagglund, Nick Mavinga, Chrys (INT'L) Morrow, Justin Osorio, Jonathan Vazquez, Victor (INT'L) Zavaleta, Eriq Automatically Protected: Chapman, Jay (HG) Hamilton, Jordan (HG) Morgan, Ashtone (HG) Camargo, Sergio (HG) Spencer, Ben (HG)

Vancouver Whitecaps FC
UNPROTECTED	PROTECTED
Bolanos, Christian (INT'L) De Jong, Marcel Edgar, David Emmanuel Igiebor, Nosakshare (INT'L) Flores, Deybi (INT'L) Greig, Kyle Harvey, Jordan Ibini-Isei, Bernie (INT'L) Jacobson, Andrew Laba, Matias (INT'L) Levis, Brett Maund, Aaron Ousted, David (INT'L) Richey, Spencer Rosales, Mauro Seiler, Cole Shea, Brek Techera, Cristian (INT'L) Williams, Sheanon	Hurtado, Erik Kamara, Kei Marinovic, Stefan (INT'L) Mezquida, Nicolas (INT'L) Mohamed, Aly (INT'L) Montero, Fredy Nerwinski, Jake Parker, Tim Reyna, Yordy (INT'L) Tchani, Tony Waston, Kendall (INT'L) Automatically Protected: Adekugbe, Sam (HG) Bustos, Marco (HG) Davies, Alphonso (HG) McKendry, Ben (HG) Teibert, Russell (HG)