2017 MLS expansion draft
The 2017 MLS Expansion Draft was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Los Angeles FC held on December 12, 2017. Lists of protected rosters and draft-eligible players were released by MLS on December 10, 2017.Format
The rules for the 2017 MLS Expansion Draft as laid out by Major League Soccer.
- Existing teams are allowed to protect 11 players from their Senior, Supplemental and Reserve Roster. Generation Adidas players and Homegrown Players on supplemental rosters are automatically protected and exempt from the expansion draft. Though players who graduated from the Generation Adidas program to the senior roster at the end of the 2017 season are not exempt.
- Only one player may be claimed from each club’s non-protected roster, that team is then eliminated from the expansion draft and not allowed to lose any further players.
- The expansion draft will last 5 rounds totaling 5 players to be drafted.
Affected Post-Draft Trades
- This section will show any publicized details of trades made regarding players involved in the expansion draft.
Team-by-team-breakdown
| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Mikey Ambrose | Miguel Almirón | Andrew Carleton |
| Yamil Asad | Carlos Carmona | Chris Goslin |
| Mark Bloom | Greg Garza | Miles Robinson |
| Bobby Boswell | Leandro González Pírez | |
| Kevin Kratz | Julian Gressel | |
| Jeff Larentowicz | Brad Guzan | |
| Zach Loyd | Alec Kann | |
| Chris McCann | Josef Martínez | |
| Tyrone Mears | Michael Parkhurst | |
| Kévin Oliveira | Brandon Vazquez | |
| Jeffrey Otoo | Héctor Villalba | |
| Tyler Pasher | | |
| Jacob Peterson | | |
| Kyle Reynish | | |
| Anton Walkes | | |
| Andrew Wheeler-Omiunu | | |
| Romario Williams | | |
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| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| David Arshakyan | David Accam | Drew Conner |
| Jorge Bava | Jonathan Campbell | Collin Fernandez |
| Brandt Bronico | Johan Kappelhof | Djordje Mihailovic |
| Stefan Cleveland | Dax McCarty | Patrick Doody |
| Jorge Corrales | Nemanja Nikolić | Joey Calistri |
| Michael de Leeuw | Juninho | |
| Christian Dean | Matt Polster | |
| Matej Dekovic | Richard Sánchez | |
| John Goossens | Bastian Schweinsteiger | |
| Michael Harrington | Luis Solignac | |
| Daniel Johnson | Brandon Vincent | |
| Matt Lampson | | |
| João Meira | | |
| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| John Berner | Stefan Aigner | Caleb Calvert |
| Bobby Burling | Micheal Azira | Kortne Ford |
| Dennis Castillo | Dominique Badji | Dillon Serna |
| Mike da Fonte | Nana Boateng | Ricardo Perez |
| Josh Gatt | Shkëlzen Gashi | Kevin Doyle |
| Luis Gil | Marlon Hairston | |
| Alan Gordon | Tim Howard | |
| Sam Hamilton | Zac MacMath | |
| Mohammed Saeid | Eric Miller | |
| Mekeil Williams | Axel Sjöberg | |
| Jared Watts | |
| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Waylon Francis | Mohammed Abu | Alex Crognale |
| Niko Hansen | Lalas Abubakar | Ben Swanson |
| Marshall Hollingsworth | Harrison Afful | |
| Adam Jahn | Artur | |
| Hector Jiménez | Federico Higuaín | |
| Logan Ketterer | Ola Kamara | |
| Connor Maloney | Kekuta Manneh | |
| Cristian Martínez | Pedro Santos | |
| Jonathan Mensah | Justin Meram | |
| Abuchi Obinwa | Zack Steffen | |
| Jukka Raitala | Wil Trapp | |
| Rodrigo Saravia | | |
| Gastón Sauro | | |
| Brad Stuver | | |
| Josh Williams | | |
| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Deshorn Brown | Luciano Acosta | Chris Durkin |
| Julian Büscher | Paul Arriola | Ian Harkes |
| Steve Clark | Steve Birnbaum | Jalen Robinson |
| Sean Franklin | Frédéric Brillant | Chris Rolfe |
| Bill Hamid | Russell Canouse | |
| Jared Jeffrey | Nick DeLeon | |
| Eric Klenofsky | Taylor Kemp | |
| Chris Korb | Darren Mattocks | |
| Bruno Miranda | Patrick Mullins | |
| Patrick Nyarko | Kofi Opare | |
| Chris Odoi-Atsem | Zoltán Stieber | |
| Lloyd Sam | | |
| Marcelo Sarvas | | |
| Rob Vincent | | |
| Travis Worra | | |
| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Carlos Cermeño | Kellyn Acosta | Coy Craft |
| Aníbal Chalá | Tesho Akindele | Jesse González |
| Eduardo Cortes | Michael Barrios | Bryan Reynolds |
| Maynor Figueroa | Cristian Colmán | Paxton Pomykal |
| Luis González | Mauro Díaz | Aaron Guillen |
| Hernán Grana | Carlos Gruezo | Jesús Ferreira |
| Atiba Harris | Jacori Hayes | Reggie Cannon |
| Walker Hume | Matt Hedges | Adonijah Reid |
| Roland Lamah | Ryan Hollingshead | |
| Javier Morales | Victor Ulloa | |
| Chris Seitz | Maxi Urruti | |
| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Eric Alexander | Juan David Cabezas | Tyler Deric |
| Arturo Álvarez | Leonardo | Memo Rodríguez |
| Jalil Anibaba | Alberth Elis | Christian Lucatero |
| DaMarcus Beasley | Adolfo Machado | |
| Boniek García | Mauro Manotas | |
| Calle Brown | Tomás Martínez | |
| Ricardo Clark | Romell Quioto | |
| A. J. DeLaGarza | Dylan Remick | |
| José Escalante | Erick Torres | |
| Kevin Garcia | Andrew Wenger | |
| Joe Holland | Joe Willis | |
| Taylor Hunter | | |
| George Malki | | |
| Alex | | |
| Vicente Sánchez | | |
| Philippe Senderos | | |
| Charlie Ward | | |
| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Michaël Ciani | Romain Alessandrini | Robbie Rogers |
| Bradley Diallo | João Pedro | Hugo Arellano |
| Clément Diop | Emmanuel Boateng | Jose Villarreal |
| Jermaine Jones | Ashley Cole | Raúl Mendiola |
| Rafael Garcia | Giovani dos Santos | Jaime Villarreal |
| Jon Kempin | Jonathan dos Santos | Nathan Smith |
| Ariel Lassiter | Baggio Hušidić | Bradford Jamieson IV |
| Jack McInerney | Sebastian Lletget | Jack McBean |
| Brian Rowe | David Romney | |
| Pele van Anholt | Daniel Steres | |
| Gyasi Zardes | |
| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Bernardo Añor | Bobby Shuttleworth | Abu Danladi |
| Justin Davis | Francisco Calvo | Collin Martin |
| Thomas De Villardi | Michael Boxall | Harrison Heath |
| Vadim Demidov | Brent Kallman | |
| Joe Greenspan | Jérôme Thiesson | |
| Miguel Ibarra | Marc Burch | |
| Ismaila Jome | Sam Cronin | |
| Alex Kapp | Kevin Molino | |
| José Leitón | Ibson | |
| Patrick McLain | Ethan Finlay | |
| Sam Nicholson | Christian Ramirez | |
| Rasmus Schüller | | |
| Jermaine Taylor | | |
| Johan Venegas | | |
| Kevin Venegas | | |
| Collen Warner | | |