# 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.

## 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.

## 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 | |