2025 MLS SuperDraft
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| 2025 MLS SuperDraft | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Sport | Soccer |
| Date(s) | December 20, 2024 |
| Time | 3:00 p.m. EST |
| Network(s) | MLS Season Pass |
| Overview | |
| 90 total selections in 3 rounds | |
| League | Major League Soccer |
| Teams | 30 |
The 2025 MLS SuperDraft will be the 26th edition of the MLS SuperDraft, a sports draft to select amateur, usually collegiate, soccer players that are not affiliate with an MLS club, or college soccer players that had their Homegrown player rights relinquished by their parent MLS club. The draft will be held on December 20, 2024, marking the third year in a row that the draft will be held in December. Despite the draft being held in 2024, the draft retained the 2025 branding.[1]
Format
[edit]Historically, the MLS SuperDraft has closely resembled that of the NFL Draft:
- Any expansion teams receive the first picks. This season, San Diego FC will be entering MLS.[2]
- Non-playoff clubs receive the next picks in reverse order of prior season finish.
- Teams that made the MLS Cup Playoffs are then ordered by which round of the playoffs they are eliminated.
- The winners of the MLS Cup are given the last selection, and the losers the penultimate selection.
Player selection
[edit]| Player key | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * | Denotes player who has been selected for an MLS Best XI team | ||||||||||
| ^ | Member of 2025 Generation Adidas class | ||||||||||
| † | Player who was named to an MLS Best XI and Generation Adidas | ||||||||||
| Signed key | |||||||||||
| Denotes player who signed for a MLS team (Division I) | |||||||||||
| Denotes player who signed for a USL Championship team (Division II) | |||||||||||
| Denotes player who signed for a MLS Next Pro, USL League One or NISA team (Division III) | |||||||||||
| Denotes player who signed for a team outside the United States soccer league system | |||||||||||
| Denotes player who returned to college team | |||||||||||
| Positions key | |||||||||||
| GK | Goalkeeper | DF | Defender | MF | Midfielder | FW | Forward | ||||
First round
[edit]| P | MLS team | Player | Year | Pos. | College | Conference | Academy team(s) | Other team(s) | Signed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Diego FC | |||||||||
| 2 | San Jose Earthquakes | |||||||||
| 3 | Chicago Fire | |||||||||
| 4 | Sporting Kansas City | |||||||||
| 5 | New England Revolution | |||||||||
| 6 | Nashville SC | |||||||||
| 7 | St. Louis City | |||||||||
| 8 | Philadelphia Union | |||||||||
| 9 | Toronto FC | |||||||||
| 10 | D.C. United | |||||||||
| 11 | FC Dallas | |||||||||
| 12 | Austin FC | |||||||||
| 13 | CF Montréal | |||||||||
| 14 | Portland Timbers | |||||||||
| 15 | Vancouver Whitecaps | |||||||||
| 16 | Colorado Rapids | |||||||||
| 17 | Charlotte FC | |||||||||
| 18 | Houston Dynamo | |||||||||
| 19 | Real Salt Lake | |||||||||
| 20 | LA Galaxy[R1 trade 1] | |||||||||
| 21 | Columbus Crew | |||||||||
| 22 | Inter Miami CF | |||||||||
| 23 | Atlanta United | |||||||||
| 24 | New York City FC | |||||||||
| 25 | Minnesota United | |||||||||
| 26 | Colorado Rapids[R1 trade 2] | |||||||||
| 27 | Orlando City SC | |||||||||
| 28 | Seattle Sounders FC | |||||||||
| 29 | ||||||||||
| 30 |
Notable undrafted players
[edit]Homegrown players
[edit]This is a list of players who were draft eligible, but previously played on the Academy team of an MLS side, and were signed directly to the first team roster prior to the SuperDraft.
| Original MLS team | Player | Position | College | Conference | Notes | Ref. |
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Summary
[edit]Selections by college athletic conference
[edit]| Conference | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Total |
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Schools with multiple draft selections
[edit]| Selections | Schools |
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Trades
[edit]Round 1:
- ^ FC Cincinnati → LA Galaxy. LA Galaxy acquired the natural first round pick in the 2025 MLS Super Draft and a conditional $50,000 in 2025 GAM from FC Cincinnati in exchange for the Right of First Refusal to sign Teenage Hadebe.[3]
- ^ Los Angeles FC → Vancouver Whitecaps FC → Colorado Rapids. Vancouver Whitecaps FC acquired the natural first round pick in the 2025 MLS SuperDraft, $250,000 in 2022 GAM, and $250,000 in 2023 GAM and $500,000 in conditional GAM from Los Angeles FC in exchange for Maxime Crépeau. Subsequently, the Colorado Rapids acquired the lesser of Los Angeles or Vancouver's natural first-round picks in the 2025 MLS SuperDraft, Vancouver's natural third-round pick in 2025 and $150,000 in conditional 2025 GAM from Vancouver Whitecaps FC in exchange for Ralph Priso.[4][5]
Round 2:
Round 3:
References
[edit]- ^ "MLS Announces Calendar of 2024-25 Offseason Roster Building Events". mlssoccer.com. October 9, 2024. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
- ^ "San Diego named 30th MLS club; debut in '25". ESPN. May 18, 2023. Retrieved December 1, 2024.
- ^ "FC Cincinnati sign defender Teenage Hadebe". MLSsoccer.com. August 27, 2024.
- ^ "Whitecaps FC acquire $1 million in GAM plus additional incentives from LAFC in exchange for goalkeeper Maxime Crépeau". Whitecaps FC. January 20, 2022.
- ^ "Whitecaps FC acquire Canadian midfielder Ralph Priso from Colorado Rapids". March 11, 2024.