# 2006 MLS expansion draft

The 2006 MLS Expansion Draft, held on November 17, 2006 was a special draft for MLS expansion team Toronto FC. Toronto FC selected 10 players from a pool of players from current MLS clubs.

## Format

* Only one player could be selected from each team. Two of the league's 12 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 had graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2006 season were not.
* Each team could only leave one senior international player unprotected.

## Expansion Draft

| Pick | Player | Position | Previous Team |
| 1 | Paulo Nagamura | M | Los Angeles Galaxy |
| 2 | Danny O'Rourke | M | New York Red Bulls |
| 3 | José Cancela | F | New England Revolution |
| 4 | Adrian Serioux | M | Houston Dynamo |
| 5 | Nate Jaqua | F | Chicago Fire |
| 6 | Rod Dyachenko | M | D.C. United |
| 7 | Jason Kreis | F | Real Salt Lake |
| 8 | Tim Regan | D | Chivas USA |
| 9 | Ritchie Kotschau | D | Columbus Crew |
| 10 | Will Hesmer | GK | Kansas City Wizards |
Following the draft, RSL traded a partial allocation (est. at US$125,000) to Toronto for Jason Kreis. Hesmer and O'Rourke were traded to Columbus for another allocation. Regan was traded to Red Bulls for forward Edson Buddle. Serioux was traded, along with Toronto's 2nd round 2007 MLS Superdraft pick to Dallas for midfielder Ronnie O'Brien. Nate Jaqua was traded to the Los Angeles Galaxy for a partial allocation. Dyachenko was later returned to D.C. for a future draft pick, Kotschau was released, and Cancela was later traded to the Colorado Rapids. Part way through the season Nagamura was later traded to Chivas USA for a 1st round 2008 MLS SuperDraft pick. This left no players from the expansion draft on the TFC roster.

## Team-by Team breakdown

Source

### Chicago Fire

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Pascal Bedrossian | Chris Armas | Chad Barrett |
| CJ Brown | Jim Curtin | |
| Craig Capano | Iván Guerrero | |
| Calen Carr | Andy Herron | |
| Jeff Curtin | Justin Mapp | |
| Floyd Franks | Logan Pause | |
| Leonard Griffin | Matt Pickens | |
| Diego Gutierrez | Dasan Robinson | |
| Nate Jaqua | Chris Rolfe | |
| Ryan Johnson | Gonzalo Segares | |
| David Mahoney | Thiago | |
| Jared Montz | | |
| Brian Plotkin | | |
| Jordan Russolillo | | |
| Adam Ruud | | |
| Tony Sanneh | | |
| Zach Thornton | | |
| John Thorrington | | |
| Idris Ughiovhe | | |

### Chivas USA

| Exposed | Protected |
| Esteban Arias | Jonathan Bornstein |
| Carlos Borja | Juan Pablo García |
| Preston Burpo | Brad Guzan |
| Rene Corona | Jason Hernandez |
| Johnny García | Sacha Kljestan |
| Drew Helm | Jesse Marsch |
| Carlos Llamosa | Francisco Mendoza |
| Rodrigo Lopez | Francisco Palencia |
| Jesús Morales | Ante Razov |
| Mike Muñoz | Claudio Suárez |
| John O'Brien | Lawson Vaughn |
| Orlando Perez | |
| Tim Regan | |
| Eder Robles | |
| Estuardo Sanchez | |
| Matt Taylor | |
| Brent Whitfield | |

### Colorado Rapids

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Colin Clark | Kyle Beckerman | Jacob Peterson |
| Matt Crawford | Joe Cannon | |
| Eric Denton | Terry Cooke | |
| Dan Gargan | Bouna Coundoul | |
| Luchi Gonzalez | Hunter Freeman | |
| Sasha Gotsmanov | Nicolás Hernández | |
| Jordan Harvey | Aitor Karanka | |
| Matt Jordan | Thiago Martins | |
| Stephen Keel | Pablo Mastroeni | |
| Aaron King | Daniel Wasson | |
| Jovan Kirovski | Chris Wingert | |
| Clint Mathis | | |
| Alain Nkong | | |
| Fabrice Noel | | |
| Mike Petke | | |
| Melvin Tarley | | |

### Columbus Crew

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Ivan Becerra | Jason Garey | Kei Kamara |
| Marc Burch | Eddie Gaven | Danny Szetela |
| Jon Busch | Marcos González | Tim Ward |
| Knox Cameron | Ned Grabavoy | Jed Zayner |
| Ryan Coiner | Andy Gruenebaum | |
| Bill Gaudette | Frankie Hejduk | |
| Ezra Hendrickson | Chad Marshall | |
| Ritchie Kotschau | Joseph Ngwenya | |
| Chris Leitch | Duncan Oughton | |
| Brandon Moss | Jacob Thomas | |
| Noah Palmer | Ricardo Virtuoso | |
| Rusty Pierce | | |
| José Retiz | | |
| Sebastian Rozental | | |
| Eric Vasquez | | |
| Jonny Walker | | |

### D.C. United

| Exposed | Protected |
| Jeff Carroll | Freddy Adu |
| Stephen deRoux | Bobby Boswell |
| Matías Donnet | Brian Carroll |
| Rod Dyachenko | Facundo Erpen |
| Ryan McIntosh | Alecko Eskandarian |
| Devon McTavish | Christian Gomez |
| Domenic Mediate | Joshua Gros |
| Andy Metcalf | Jaime Moreno |
| Justin Moose | Bryan Namoff |
| Matt Nickell | Ben Olsen |
| Brandon Prideaux | Troy Perkins |
| Nick Rimando | |
| Clyde Simms | |
| Robert Ssejjemba | |
| David Stokes | |
| Jamil Walker | |
| John Wilson | |

### FC Dallas

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Ray Burse | Arturo Alvarez | Dax McCarty |
| Jeff Cassar | Kenny Cooper | Blake Wagner |
| Michael Dello-Russo | Shaka Hislop | |
| Chris Gbandi | Drew Moor | |
| Clarence Goodson | Richard Mulrooney | |
| Roberto Mina | Ramón Núñez | |
| Justin Moore | Ronnie O'Brien | |
| Dominic Oduro | Carlos Ruiz | |
| Aaron Pitchkolan | Dario Sala | |
| Bobby Rhine | Marcelo Saragosa | |
| Alex Smith | Abe Thompson | |
| Simo Valakari | | |
| Greg Vanney | | |
| David Wagenfuhr | | |
| Alex Yi | | |

### Houston Dynamo

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Chris Aloisi | Wade Barrett | Patrick Ianni |
| Mike Chabala | Brian Ching | |
| Kevin Goldthwaite | Ricardo Clark | |
| Kelly Gray | Ryan Cochrane | |
| Stuart Holden | Paul Dalglish | |
| Martin Hutton | Brad Davis | |
| Aaron Lanes | Dwayne De Rosario | |
| Mpho Moloi | Alejandro Moreno | |
| Julian Nash | Brian Mullan | |
| Adrian Serioux | Pat Onstad | |
| Marcus Storey | Eddie Robinson | |
| Craig Waibel | | |
| Zach Wells | | |
| Chris Wondolowski | | |

### Kansas City Wizards

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Matt Groenwald | Davy Arnaud | Will John |
| Will Hesmer | Jose Burciaga Jr. | Yura Movsisyan |
| Eric Kronberg | Jimmy Conrad | Ryan Pore |
| Ryan McMahen | Nick Garcia | |
| Bo Oshoniyi | Jack Jewsbury | |
| Sergei Raad | Eddie Johnson | |
| Ryan Raybould | Scott Sealy | |
| Brian Roberts | Shavar Thomas | |
| Stephen Shirley | Sasha Victorine | |
| Dave van den Bergh | Josh Wolff | |
| Tyson Wahl | Kerry Zavagnin | |
| Lance Watson | | |
| Alex Zotinca | | |

### Los Angeles Galaxy

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Michael Enfield | Chris Albright | Steve Cronin |
| Josh Gardner | Landon Donovan | Quavas Kirk |
| Gavin Glinton | Cornell Glen | Nathan Sturgis |
| Guillermo Gonzalez | Herculez Gomez | |
| Alan Gordon | Kevin Hartman | |
| Josh Hansen | Ugo Ihemelu | |
| Cobi Jones | Ante Jazic | |
| Kyle Martino | Tyrone Marshall | |
| Stefani Miglioranzi | Santino Quaranta | |
| Paulo Nagamura | Troy Roberts | |
| Mike Randolph | Peter Vagenas | |
| Josh Saunders | | |
| Kyle Veris | | |

### New England Revolution

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| José Manuel Abundis | Clint Dempsey | Willie Sims |
| Kyle Brown | Andy Dorman | |
| José Cancela | Jay Heaps | |
| Joe Franchino | Shalrie Joseph | |
| Jani Galik | Tony Lochhead | |
| Miguel Gonzalez | Pat Noonan | |
| Pat Haggerty | Michael Parkhurst | |
| Daniel Hernández | Steve Ralston | |
| Avery John | Matt Reis | |
| Jeff Larentowicz | Khano Smith | |
| Marshall Leonard | Taylor Twellman | |
| Arsene Oka | | |
| James Riley | | |
| T.J. Tomasso | | |
| Doug Warren | | |
| Adam Williamson | | |
| Danny Wynn | | |

### New York Red Bulls

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Michael Behonick | Jon Conway | Josmer Altidore |
| Edson Buddle | Todd Dunivant | David Arvizu |
| Blake Camp | Amado Guevara | |
| Peter Canero | Elie Ikangu | |
| Taylor Graham | Dema Kovalenko | |
| Chris Henderson | Mike Magee | |
| Steve Jolley | Carlos Mendes | |
| Shawn Kuykendall | Jeff Parke | |
| Jerrod Laventure | Markus Schopp | |
| Mark Lisi | Seth Stammler | |
| Tony Meola | Marvell Wynne | |
| Danny O'Rourke | | |
| Joseph Vide | | |
| John Wolyniec | | |

### Real Salt Lake

| Exposed | Protected | Exempt |
| Adam Acosta | Mehdi Ballouchy | Nikolas Besagno |
| Nelson Akwari | Jeff Cunningham | Christian Jimenez |
| Jacob Besagno | Willis Forko | Jamie Watson |
| Paul Broome | Atiba Harris | |
| Chris Brown | Chris Klein | |
| Kenny Cutler | Cameron Knowles | |
| Scott Garlick | Eddie Pope | |
| Brian Gil | Jafet Soto | |
| Chase Harrison | Jack Stewart | |
| Duke Hashimoto | Carey Talley | |
| Jason Kreis | Daniel Torres | |
| Jay Nolly | | |
| Kevin Novak | | |
| Douglas Sequeira | | |
| Seth Trembly | | |
| Andy Williams | | |
| Joey Worthen | | |