# 2008 MLS expansion draft

The 2008 MLS Expansion Draft took place on November 26, 2008, and was a special draft for the Major League Soccer expansion team Seattle Sounders FC. They made 10 selections from a pool of players from the other 14 MLS clubs.

## Format

Source
* Only one player could be selected from each team. Four of the league's 14 current teams did not have a player selected.
* Teams were allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. Generation Adidas players were automatically protected, though players who are graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2008 season were not.
* Teams with 4 or more international players were required to protect 3 of them. If a team had 3 or fewer international players, then it was required to protect all but one.
* Any developmental players selected were required to be moved up to the senior roster for the 2009 season.

## Expansion Draft Results

| # | Player | Position | Country | Previous club |
| 1 | Nate Jaqua | F | United States | Houston Dynamo |
| 2 | Nathan Sturgis | M | United States | Real Salt Lake |
| 3 | Jeff Parke | D | United States | New York Red Bulls |
| 4 | Jarrod Smith | F | New Zealand | Toronto FC |
| 5 | Khano Smith | M | Bermuda | New England Revolution |
| 6 | Peter Vagenas | M | United States | Los Angeles Galaxy |
| 7 | Tyson Wahl | D | United States | Kansas City Wizards |
| 8 | James Riley | D | United States | San Jose Earthquakes |
| 9 | Stephen King | M | United States | Chicago Fire |
| 10 | Brad Evans | M | United States | Columbus Crew |

## Team-by-team breakdown

Source

### Chicago Fire

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Mike Banner | Cuauhtémoc Blanco | Patrick Nyarko |
| C. J. Brown | Jon Busch | |
| Calen Carr | Wilman Conde, Jr. | |
| Tomasz Frankowski | Justin Mapp | |
| Andy Herron | Brian McBride | |
| Kai Kasiguran | Logan Pause | |
| Tyler Kettering | Dasan Robinson | |
| Stephen King | Chris Rolfe | |
| Peter Lowry | Gonzalo Segares | |
| Líder Mármol | Bakary Soumare | |
| Nick Noble | John Thorrington | |
| Marco Pappa | | |
| Brandon Prideaux | | |
| Austin Washington | | |
| Daniel Woolard | | |

### Chivas USA

| Exposed | Protected |
| Kraig Chiles | Bobby Burling |
| Jim Curtin | Jonathan Bornstein |
| Dejair | Justin Braun |
| Eric Ebert | Alecko Eskandarian |
| Jorge Flores | Maykel Galindo |
| Anthony Hamilton | Atiba Harris |
| Dan Kennedy | Sacha Kljestan |
| Gerson Mayen | Jesse Marsch |
| Roberto Nurse | Francisco Mendoza |
| Daniel Paladini | Paulo Nagamura |
| Lance Parker | Shavar Thomas |
| Ante Razov | |
| Keith Savage | |
| Claudio Suárez | |
| Carey Talley | |
| Zach Thornton | |
| Lawson Vaughn | |
| Sasha Victorine | |
| Raphaël Wicky | |
| Alex Zotinca | |

### Colorado Rapids

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| José Burciaga, Jr. | Mehdi Ballouchy | Nico Colaluca |
| Preston Burpo | Conor Casey | Ciaran O'Brien |
| Terry Cooke | Colin Clark | |
| Greg Dalby | Bouna Coundoul | |
| John DiRaimondo | Omar Cummings | |
| Facundo Erpen | Cory Gibbs | |
| Brian Grazier | Christian Gómez | |
| Jordan Harvey | Ugo Ihemelu | |
| Justin Hughes | Nick LaBrocca | |
| Stephen Keel | Pablo Mastroeni | |
| Kosuke Kimura | Jacob Peterson | |
| Tam McManus | | |
| Mike Petke | | |
| Kwame Sarkodie | | |
| Tim Ward | | |
| Cesar Zambrano | | |

### Columbus Crew

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Kevin Burns | Guillermo Barros Schelotto | Jed Zayner |
| Cory Elenio | Brian Carroll | |
| Brad Evans | Emmanuel Ekpo | |
| Jason Garey | Frankie Hejduk | |
| Eddie Gaven | Will Hesmer | |
| Andy Gruenebaum | Andy Iro | |
| Ezra Hendrickson | Chad Marshall | |
| George Josten | Alejandro Moreno | |
| Ryan Junge | Danny O'Rourke | |
| Steven Lenhart | Gino Padula | |
| Stefani Miglioranzi | Robbie Rogers | |
| Adam Moffat | | |
| Pat Noonan | | |
| Stanley Nyazamba | | |
| Duncan Oughton | | |
| Andrew Peterson | | |
| Ricardo Pierre-Louis | | |
| Brian Plotkin | | |
| Kenny Schoeni | | |

### DC United

| Exposed | Protected |
| Jeff Carroll | Marc Burch |
| Pat Carroll | Luciano Emilio |
| Ryan Cordeiro | Fred |
| Louis Crayton | Iván Guerrero |
| Francis Doe | Greg Janicki |
| Rod Dyachenko | Thabiso Khumalo |
| Marcelo Gallardo | Devon McTavish |
| Quavas Kirk | Jaime Moreno |
| Ibrahim Koroma | Bryan Namoff |
| Gonzalo Martínez | Santino Quaranta |
| Domenic Mediate | Clyde Simms |
| Ryan Miller | |
| Ben Olsen | |
| Gonzalo Peralta | |
| Craig Thompson | |
| James Thorpe | |
| Joe Vide | |
| Zach Wells | |
| Mike Zaher | |

### FC Dallas

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Ray Burse | Kenny Cooper | Eric Avila |
| Andrew Daniels | Jeff Cunningham | Bruno Guarda |
| Duilio Davino | Dax McCarty | Josh Lambo |
| Michael Dello-Russo | Drew Moor | Brek Shea |
| Aaron Pitchkolan | Dominic Oduro | Anthony Wallace |
| Jeff Rowland | Pablo Ricchetti | |
| Victor Sikora | André Rocha | |
| Spencer Wadsworth | Darío Sala | |
| David Wagenfuhr | Marcelo Saragosa | |
| Jamie Watson | Adrian Serioux | |
| Chase Wileman | Blake Wagner | |

### Houston Dynamo

| Exposed | Protected |
| Johnny Alcaraz | Bobby Boswell |
| Corey Ashe | Geoff Cameron |
| Wade Barrett | Brian Ching |
| Kyle Brown | Ricardo Clark |
| Tony Caig | Brad Davis |
| Mike Chabala | Dwayne De Rosario |
| Nick Hatzke | Stuart Holden |
| John Michael Hayden | Kei Kamara |
| Patrick Ianni | Guy-Roland Kpene |
| Nate Jaqua | Brian Mullan |
| Richard Mulrooney | Eddie Robinson |
| Pat Onstad | |
| Erik Ustruck | |
| Craig Waibel | |
| Corbin Waller | |
| Chris Wondolowski | |
| Stephen Wondolowski | |

### Kansas City Wizards

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Kevin Hartman | Davy Arnaud | Roger Espinoza |
| Aaron Hohlbein | Jimmy Conrad | Chance Myers |
| Michael Kraus | Adam Cristman | |
| Eric Kronberg | Herculez Gomez | |
| Matt Marquess | Michael Harrington | |
| Rauwshan McKenzie | Jack Jewsbury | |
| Kurt Morsink | Jon Leathers | |
| Boris Pardo | Claudio López | |
| Iván Trujillo | Carlos Marinelli | |
| Nelson Pizarro | Kevin Souter | |
| Ryan Pore | Josh Wolff | |
| Abe Thompson | | |
| Tyson Wahl | | |
| Lance Watson | | |

### Los Angeles Galaxy

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Vardan Adzemian | David Beckham | Tristan Bowen |
| Charles Alamo | Edson Buddle | Israel Sesay |
| Ely Allen | Landon Donovan | |
| Jeremy Barlow | Sean Franklin | |
| Steve Cronin | Alan Gordon | |
| Eduardo Dominguez | Ante Jazic | |
| Joe Franchino | Bryan Jordan | |
| Michael Gavin | Eddie Lewis | |
| Jovan Kirovski | Brandon McDonald | |
| Chris Klein | Álvaro Pires | |
| Mike Munoz | Troy Roberts | |
| Mike Randolph | | |
| Josh Saunders | | |
| Josh Tudela | | |
| Peter Vagenas | | |
| Julian Valentin | | |
| Josh Wicks | | |

### New England Revolution

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| José Angulo | Chris Albright | Amaechi Igwe |
| Gabriel Badilla | Kheli Dube | Rob Valentino |
| Sam Brill | Jay Heaps | |
| Mauricio Castro | Shalrie Joseph | |
| Argenis Fernández | Jeff Larentowicz | |
| Gary Flood | Kenny Mansally | |
| Joe Germanese | Sainey Nyassi | |
| Brad Knighton | Michael Parkhurst | |
| Brandon Manzonelli | Steve Ralston | |
| Pat Phelan | Matt Reis | |
| Khano Smith | Taylor Twellman | |
| Wells Thompson | | |
| Chris Tierney | | |
| Brandon Tyler | | |
| Doug Warren | | |

### New York Red Bulls

| Exposed | Protected |
| Danleigh Borman | Juan Pablo Ángel |
| Terry Boss | Danny Cepero |
| Andrew Boyens | Jon Conway |
| Gabriel Cichero | Kevin Goldthwaite |
| Óscar Echeverry | Macoumba Kandji |
| John Gilkerson | Dane Richards |
| Diego Jimenez | Jorge Rojas |
| Gordon Kljestan | Luke Sassano |
| Chris Leitch | Seth Stammler |
| Mike Magee | Siniša Ubiparipović |
| Matthew Mbuta | Dave van den Bergh |
| Carlos Mendes | |
| Mike Palacio | |
| Jeff Parke | |
| Caleb Patterson-Sewell | |
| Juan Pietravallo | |
| David Roth | |
| Sainey Touray | |
| John Wolyniec | |

### Real Salt Lake

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Nikolas Besagno | Kyle Beckerman | Tony Beltran |
| Kenny Cutler | Nat Borchers | Alex Nimo |
| Kenny Deuchar | Fabián Espíndola | Chris Seitz |
| David Horst | Robbie Findley | |
| Ian Joy | Will Johnson | |
| Dustin Kirby | Javier Morales | |
| Dema Kovalenko | Yura Movsisyan | |
| Clint Mathis | Jámison Olave | |
| Tino Núñez | Nick Rimando | |
| Kevin Reiman | Robbie Russell | |
| Kyle Reynish | Chris Wingert | |
| Nathan Sturgis | | |
| Brennan Tennelle | | |
| Andy Williams | | |

### San Jose Earthquakes

| Exposed | Protected |
| Mikel Arce | Arturo Alvarez |
| Jay Ayres | Joe Cannon |
| John Cunliffe | Ryan Cochrane |
| Eric Denton | Ramiro Corrales |
| Gavin Glinton | Nick Garcia |
| Ned Grabavoy | Jason Hernandez |
| Kelly Gray | Darren Huckerby |
| Michael Gustavson | Ryan Johnson |
| Matt Hatzke | Francisco Lima |
| Amir Lowery | Shea Salinas |
| Ronnie O'Brien | Scott Sealy |
| James Riley | |
| Jamil Roberts | |
| Adam Smarte | |
| Davide Somma | |
| Sina Shabany | |

### Toronto FC

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Nana Attakora | Chad Barrett | Fuad Ibrahim |
| Kilian Elkinson | Jim Brennan | |
| Hunter Freeman | Danny Dichio | |
| Gabe Gala | Todd Dunivant | |
| Derek Gaudet | Brian Edwards | |
| Joey Melo | Amado Guevara | |
| Rohan Ricketts | Kevin Harmse | |
| Tyler Rosenlund | Julius James | |
| Carlos Ruiz | Tyrone Marshall | |
| Jarrod Smith | Carl Robinson | |
| Johann Smith | Marvell Wynne | |
| Greg Sutton | | |
| Marco Vélez | | |