2011 MLS expansion draft

The 2011 MLS Expansion Draft was held on November 23, 2011 as a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Montreal Impact.

2011 MLS Expansion Draft
General information
Date(s)	November 23, 2011
Overview
Expansion team	Montreal Impact
Expansion season	2012
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Format

Source

• Existing teams were allowed to protect 11 players from their rosters. Generation Adidas players were automatically protected, though players who graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2011 season were not.
• Homegrown players on the team's off-budget roster were automatically protected and did not count against each team's 11 protected roster spots.
• Designated players only had to be protected if they had a no-trade clause.
• Existing clubs had to submit their protected rosters to MLS by November 21, 2011. The protected rosters were made public later that day.

Expansion draft results

Pick	Player	Previous Team
1	Brian Ching	Houston Dynamo
2	Zarek Valentin	Chivas USA
3	Justin Mapp	Philadelphia Union
4	Bobby Burling	San Jose Earthquakes
5	Jeb Brovsky	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
6	Collen Warner	Real Salt Lake
7	Josh Gardner	Columbus Crew
8	Sanna Nyassi	Colorado Rapids
9	James Riley*	Seattle Sounders FC
10	Seth Sinovic	Sporting Kansas City

• Riley was immediately traded to Chivas USA with allocation money for Justin Braun and Gerson Mayen.^[1]

^[2]

Team-by-team-breakdown

Chicago Fire

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Mike Banner	Jalil Anibaba	Corben Bone
Diego Cháves	Orr Barouch	Kellen Gulley
Jon Conway	Cory Gibbs	Victor Pineda
Yamith Cuesta	Sebastián Grazzini
Alec Dufty	Sean Johnson
Gabriel Ferrari	Patrick Nyarko
Dan Gargan	Dominic Oduro
Baggio Husidić	Pável Pardo
Steven Kinney	Logan Pause
Josip Mikulić	Marco Pappa
Cristian Nazarit	Gonzalo Segares
Daniel Paladini
Pari Pantazopoulos
Michael Videira
Kwame Watson-Siriboe

Chivas USA

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Sergio Arias	Juan Pablo Ángel	Tristan Bowen
Andrew Boyens	Justin Braun	Bryan de la Fuente
Chukwudi Chijindu	Jorge Flores
Chris Cortez	Dan Kennedy
Laurent Courtois	Nick LaBrocca
Simon Elliott	Alejandro Moreno
Víctor Estupiñán	Paulo Nagamura
Blair Gavin	Heath Pearce
Ante Jazić	Ryan Smith
David Lopes	Michael Umaña
Michael Lahoud	Ben Zemanski
Gerson Mayen
Marcos Mondaini
Zach Thornton
Mariano Trujillo
Zarek Valentin

Colorado Rapids

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Eddie Ababio	Conor Casey	Davy Armstrong
Andre Akpan	Omar Cummings	Josh Janniere
Quincy Amarikwa	Danny Earls
Steward Ceus	Jeff Larentowicz
Miguel Comminges	Pablo Mastroeni
Steven Emory	Drew Moor
Caleb Folan	Brian Mullan
Michael Holody	Joseph Nane
Ian Joyce	Matt Pickens
Macoumba Kandji	Jamie Smith
Kosuke Kimura	Marvell Wynne
Ross LaBauex
Tyrone Marshall
Sanna Nyassi
Scott Palguta
Wells Thompson
Anthony Wallace

Columbus Crew

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Kevin Burns	Bernardo Añor	Aaron Horton
Jeff Cunningham	Rich Balchan
Emmanuel Ekpo	Dilly Duka
Shaun Francis	Eddie Gaven
Josh Gardner	William Hesmer
Eric Gehrig	Julius James
Cole Grossman	Chad Marshall
Andy Gruenebaum	Sebastián Miranda
Tom Heinemann	Emilio Rentería
Justin Meram	Robbie Rogers
Andrés Mendoza	Tony Tchani
Danny O'Rourke
John Owoeri
Santiago Prim
Alex Riggs
Dejan Rusmir
Ben Sippola
Korey Veeder
Josh Williams

D.C. United

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Brandon Barklage	Charlie Davies	Bill Hamid
Branko Bošković	Dwayne De Rosario	Andy Najar
Blake Brettschneider	Dejan Jakovic	Conor Shanosky
Marc Burch	Perry Kitchen	Ethan White
Steve Cronin	Chris Korb
Austin da Luz	Brandon McDonald
Stephen King	Chris Pontius
Devon McTavish	Clyde Simms
Kurt Morsink	Joe Willis
Joseph Ngwenya	Josh Wolff
Santino Quaranta	Daniel Woolard
Jed Zayner

FC Dallas

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Daniel Cruz	Jair Benítez	Moises Hernandez
Edson Edward	Fabián Castillo	Bryan Leyva
Bruno Guarda	Marvin Chávez	Rubén Luna
Maykel Galindo	David Ferreira	Richard Sánchez
Jeremy Hall	Kevin Hartman	Jonathan Top
Daniel Hernández	Ugo Ihemelu	Victor Ulloa
Josh Lambo	Jackson	Andrew Wiedeman
Maicon Santos	Andrew Jacobson
Chris Seitz	George John
Jack Stewart	Zach Loyd
Ricardo Villar	Brek Shea
Bobby Warshaw

Houston Dynamo

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Brian Ching	Corey Ashe	Will Bruin
Carlo Costly	Bobby Boswell	Tyler Deric
Danny Cruz	Luiz Camargo	Alex Dixon
Hunter Freeman	Geoff Cameron	Francisco Navas
Jason Garey	Calen Carr	Kofi Sarkodie
Evan Newton	Colin Clark	Josue Soto
Eddie Robinson	Brad Davis
Je-Vaughn Watson	André Hainault
Cam Weaver	Tally Hall
	Adam Moffat
	Jermaine Taylor

Los Angeles Galaxy

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Sean Alvarado	David Beckham	Jack McBean
Chad Barrett	A. J. DeLaGarza
Chris Birchall	Landon Donovan
Paolo Cardozo	Todd Dunivant
Adam Cristman	Sean Franklin
Frankie Hejduk	Omar Gonzalez
Héctor Jiménez	Juninho
Bryan Jordan	Robbie Keane
Dan Keat	Mike Magee
Leonardo	Donovan Ricketts
Miguel López	Josh Saunders
Dustin McCarty
Brian Perk
Dasan Robinson
Michael Stephens
Ryan Thomas

New England Revolution

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Darrius Barnes	Kevin Alston	Diego Fagúndez
Zak Boggs	Benny Feilhaber
Milton Caraglio	Shalrie Joseph
Ryan Cochrane	Rajko Lekić
Franco Coria	Stephen McCarthy
Kheli Dube	Sainey Nyassi
Ryan Guy	Matt Reis
Ryan Kinne	Bobby Shuttleworth
Alan Koger	A. J. Soares
Otto Loewy	Chris Tierney
Abdoulie Mansally	Monsef Zerka
Tim Murray
Pat Phelan
Andrew Sousa
Zack Schilawski

New York Red Bulls

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Chris Albright	Thierry Henry	Juan Agudelo
Stéphane Auvray	Stephen Keel	Corey Hertzog
Mehdi Ballouchy	Joel Lindpere	Šaćir Hot
Bouna Coundoul	Rafael Márquez	Matt Kassel
Alex Horwath	Dax McCarty
Mike Jones	Roy Miller
Tyler Lassiter	Tim Ream
Carlos Mendes	Dane Richards
Brian Nielsen	Luke Rodgers
Marcos Paullo	Jan Gunnar Solli
Carl Robinson	Teemu Tainio
John Rooney
Frank Rost
Teddy Schneider
Greg Sutton

Philadelphia Union

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Freddy Adu	Danny Califf	Jack McInerney
Juan Diego González	Brian Carroll	Amobi Okugo
Chase Harrison	Keon Daniel	Zach Pfeffer
Thorne Holder	Gabriel Farfan	Zac MacMath
Levi Houapeu	Michael Farfan
Morgan Langley	Sébastien Le Toux
Justin Mapp	Danny Mwanga
Stefani Miglioranzi	Faryd Mondragón
Kyle Nakazawa	Roger Torres
Veljko Paunović	Carlos Valdés
Ryan Richter	Sheanon Williams
Joe Tait

Portland Timbers

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Eric Alexander	Kalif Alhassan	Darlington Nagbe
Freddie Braun	Eric Brunner
Adin Brown	Diego Chará
Mike Chabala	Kenny Cooper
Bright Dike	Mamadou Danso
Jake Gleeson	David Horst
Kevin Goldthwaite	Jack Jewsbury
Eddie Johnson	Lovel Palmer
Rodrigo López	Troy Perkins
Peter Lowry	Jorge Perlaza
James Marcelin	Rodney Wallace
Ryan Pore
Steve Purdy
Spencer Thompson
Chris Taylor
Brian Umony
Sal Zizzo

Real Salt Lake

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Chris Agorsor	Kyle Beckerman	Luis Gil
Jean Alexandre	Tony Beltran	Nico Muñiz
Arturo Alvarez	Nat Borchers	Donny Toia
Yordany Álvarez	Fabián Espíndola
Cody Arnoux	Will Johnson
Nelson González	Javier Morales
Ned Grabavoy	Jámison Olave
Rauwshan McKenzie	Nick Rimando
Tim Melia	Álvaro Saborío
Paulo Jr.	Chris Schuler
Kyle Reynish	Chris Wingert
Robbie Russell
Collen Warner
Andy Williams
Blake Wagner

San Jose Earthquakes

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Anthony Ampaipitakwong	Rafael Baca	David Bingham
Nana Attakora	Steven Beitashour	Ike Opara
Bobby Burling	Jon Busch
Bobby Convey	Sam Cronin
Ramiro Corrales	Simon Dawkins
Joey Gjertsen	Alan Gordon
Maxwell Griffin	Jason Hernandez
Chris Leitch	Steven Lenhart
André Luiz	Justin Morrow
Matt Luzunaris	Khari Stephenson
Ellis McLoughlin	Chris Wondolowski
Jacob Peterson
Brad Ring
Scott Sealy
Tim Ward
Andrew Weber

Seattle Sounders FC

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Terry Boss	Osvaldo Alonso	Michael Tetteh
Servando Carrasco	Brad Evans
David Estrada	Álvaro Fernández
Josh Ford	Erik Friberg
Mike Fucito	Jhon Kennedy Hurtado
Leonardo González	Fredy Montero
Taylor Graham	Lamar Neagle
Patrick Ianni	Sammy Ochoa
Nate Jaqua	Jeff Parke
Roger Levesque	Mauro Rosales
Bryan Meredith	Steve Zakuani
Miguel Montaño
Pat Noonan
James Riley
Amadou Sanyang
Zach Scott
Mike Seamon
Tyson Wahl
O'Brian White

Sporting Kansas City

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Korede Aiyegbusi	Davy Arnaud	Kevin Ellis
Omar Bravo	Matt Besler	Jon Kempin
Daneil Cyrus	Teal Bunbury
Birahim Diop	Aurélien Collin
Michael Harrington	Roger Espinoza
Jéferson	Kei Kamara
Peterson Joseph	Chance Myers
Eric Kronberg	Jimmy Nielsen
Scott Lorenz	Júlio César
Lawrence Olum	C. J. Sapong
Craig Rocastle	Graham Zusi
Soony Saad
Luke Sassano
Seth Sinovic
Miloš Stojčev
Shavar Thomas
Konrad Warzycha

Toronto FC

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Elbekay Bouchiba	Eric Avila	Oscar Cordon
Danleigh Borman	Terry Dunfield	Doneil Henry
Adrian Cann	Richard Eckersley	Nicholas Lindsay
Kyle Davies	Stefan Frei	Keith Makubuya
Julian de Guzman	Torsten Frings	Ashtone Morgan
Matt Gold	Ty Harden	Matt Stinson
Léandre Griffit	Andy Iro
Peri Marošević	Ryan Johnson
Javier Martina	Miloš Kocić
Demitrius Omphroy	Danny Koevermans
Nick Soolsma	Joao Plata
Nathan Sturgis
Eddy Viator
Dicoy Williams
Mikael Yourassowsky
Gianluca Zavarise

Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Exposed	Protected	Exempt
Michael Boxall	Davide Chiumiento	Bryce Alderson
Jeb Brovsky	Jay DeMerit	Philippe Davies
Joe Cannon	Atiba Harris	Nizar Khalfan
Bilal Duckett	Jordan Harvey	Michael Nanchoff
Greg Janicki	Eric Hassli	Omar Salgado
Mustapha Jarju	Gershon Koffie	Brian Sylvestre
Jonathan Leathers	Carlyle Mitchell	Russell Teibert
Alexandre Morfaw	Alain Rochat
Jay Nolly	Shea Salinas
John Thorrington	Camilo Sanvezzo
Peter Vagenas	Long Tan