Major League Soccer announced today the list of players available for selection in the 2024 Expansion Draft, where expansion side San Diego FC will have the opportunity of selecting up to five players from the eligible list on Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 9:30PM CT.
FC Dallas Expansion Draft List
Protected (12)
Manuel ‘Show’ Cafumana, Patrickson Delgado, Marco Farfan, Logan Farrington, Sebastien Ibeagha, Bernard Kamungo, Petar Musa, Tsiki Ntsabeleng, Maarten Paes, Enes Sali, Nkosi Tafari and Alan Velasco
Automatically Protected Players (6)
Antonio Carrera, Jesús Ferreira, Nolan Norris, Paxton Pomykal, Tarik Scott and Alejandro Urzua.
Available for selection (18)
Jimmy Maurer, Amet Korça, Omar Gonzalez, Isaiah Parker, Ruan, Ema Twumasi, Geovane Jesus, Sam Junqua, Herbert Endeley, Asier Illarramendi, Liam Fraser, Carl Sainté, Sebastian Lletget, Tomas Pondeca, Eugene Ansah and Paul Arriola.
Each current MLS club had the opportunity to protect 12 players from their 2024 roster. Generation adidas players (who did not graduate at the end of the 2024 season) and Homegrown Players (ages 25 and under) on a club's off-budget roster are automatically protected and do not count against a team's 12 protected roster spots.Designated Players are not automatically protected. If a Designated Player has a no-trade clause in his contract, then the club must protect him in the Expansion Draft.
For a club that has a player claimed from their unprotected roster, that team will receive $50,000 in General Allocation Money for the selection.
The offseason roster building events continue with the opening of Free Agency and the End-of-Year Waivers process on Thursday, Dec. 12, and Stage 1 of the Re-Entry Process on Friday, Dec. 13. Stage 2 of the Re-Entry Process will take place on Thursday, Dec. 19, and will be followed by MLS SuperDraft 2025 on Friday, Dec. 20.
