List of Seattle Sounders FC draft picks

Seattle Sounders FC is a professional American soccer team based in Seattle, Washington, that competes in Major League Soccer, the top-flight league in the soccer league system. They joined the league as an expansion team in 2009 and play their home matches at Lumen Field, a multipurpose stadium near Downtown Seattle. The MLS team are the third to use the Sounders name, following the original franchise that played in the North American Soccer League from 1974 to 1983 and a second club that played in various second-division leagues from 1994 to 2008.
The team have participated in every edition of the MLS SuperDraft, the league's annual college player draft, since they joined MLS. The use of a draft is similar to other major sports leagues in the United States and Canada, but uncommon in soccer. The draft order is determined by the previous season's standings and progress in the MLS Cup Playoffs. Expansion teams receive the earliest picks, followed by returning teams with the worst win–loss records; for playoff teams, the order is determined by the round they were eliminated in, followed by points per game during the regular season. Draft picks are tradeable for players, other picks, or forms of compensation such as general allocation money or international roster slots.
Since the 2024 MLS SuperDraft, players from American colleges have been eligible for the draft beginning in their sophomore year; the league previously restricted draft eligibility to players in their senior year unless they had signed a Generation Adidas contract. Non-collegiate international players are also allowed to be selected if they are nominated by clubs for the league's draft-eligible list. A team has priority rights to sign a selected player until the end of the following year following the draft; players who return to college or sign for a professional team elsewhere after their selection are not allowed to enter a later draft.
The Sounders were granted the first overall pick in the 2009 MLS SuperDraft due to their status as an expansion team and selected 20-year-old forward Steve Zakuani from the University of Akron. The number and rounds and picks in the SuperDraft have fluctuated based on the needs of teams and the expansion of MLS, which grew from 15 teams in 2009 to 30 teams in 2025. The SuperDraft was cut from four rounds to two by 2012 due to the reintroduction of the supplemental draft, which replaced the later rounds. The supplemental draft was eliminated in 2014 and replaced by a single, expanded version of the SuperDraft with four rounds that was used until a reduction to three rounds in 2021.
The SuperDraft was held concurrently with the annual convention of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America until the draft became a virtual conference in 2020. It had declined in importance by the late 2010s as the development of young players had shifted to team academies and the signing of homegrown players. Teams had also skipped all their picks in later rounds or traded away their picks; the Sounders had traded their lone first-round picks in several years and only selected one player in the 2021 draft. In the most recent draft in December 2025, the Sounders selected midfielder Joe Dale from Washington and goalkeeper Stockton Short from Utah Tech.

2009 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	1	1			Forward	Akron
2	1	16			Defender	Wake Forest
3	1	31			Defender	Azusa Pacific
4	1	46			Defender	Harvard

2010 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	11	11			Forward/Midfielder	UCLA
2	11	27			Midfielder	Villanova
4	11	59			Defender	San Diego State

2011 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
2	2	20			Defender/Midfielder	UC Santa Barbara
2	3	21			Defender	Southern Methodist
2	9	27			Midfielder	California
2	11	29			Goalkeeper	Monmouth
3	11	47			Midfielder	Davidson

2012 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	15	15			Defender	Creighton
2	15	34			Forward	UA Birmingham

2013 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	10	10			Defender	Indiana
2	16	35			Defender	Brown

2014 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	8	8			Defender	Hartford
2	2	21			Defender	Louisville
3	17	55			Forward/Midfielder	MLS Caribbean Combine
4	20	77			Midfielder	Michigan

2015 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	16	16			Midfielder	Washington
2	12	33			Goalkeeper	Northwestern
2	19	40			Defender/Midfielder	New Mexico
3	6	48			Forward	North Carolina
4	13	75			Defender	Marquette
4	18	80			Midfielder	West Virginia

2016 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
2	7	27			Defender	Cal State Dominguez Hills
2	15	35			Midfielder	Duke
3	13	54			Midfielder	Omaha
3	15	76			Goalkeeper	Old Dominion

2017 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	22	22			Defender	Stanford
2	22	44			Midfielder	FC Nordsjælland
3	12	56			Midfielder	Georgetown
3	22	66			Defender	Wright State
4	22	88			Defender	Seattle

2018 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	22	22			Defender/Midfielder	Seattle
2	22	45			Defender	Duke
3	22	68			Defender	Villanova

2019 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	20	20			Midfielder	Air Force
2	20	44			Midfielder	Creighton
3	20	68			Defender	San Diego State

2020 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
2	9	35			Defender	UNC Wilmington
2	26	52			Midfielder	UNLV
3	26	78			Defender	Seattle

2021 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
3	26	80			Goalkeeper	James Madison

2022 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
2	15	43			Defender	Washington
3	20	76			Midfielder	Seattle

2023 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
2	9	38			Forward	Kentucky
3	1	59			Defender	San Diego State

2024 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	23	23			Defender	Washington
2	23	52			Defender	Duke
3	23	81			Forward	Portland

2025 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
1	28	28			Midfielder	West Virginia
2	28	58			Defender	Seattle
3	16	76			Forward	Bowling Green State

2026 MLS SuperDraft

Round		Overall	Name	Nationality	Position	College
2	21	51			Midfielder	Washington Huskies
3	21	81			Goalkeeper	Utah Tech Trailblazers