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MLS SuperDraft 2024 selection order: which teams can select first?
The MLS SuperDraft begins on Tuesday, offering opportunities to the best talent from the American college soccer system.
The 2024 MLS Superdraft will be held virtually at 3 pm ET / 12 noon PT on Tuesday 19 December 2023 with all 29 MLS franchises able to select a total of three picks, one from each round - 87 in total this year out of a possible 400. On offer will be the best talent from the American college soccer system, players who are collegiate sophomores or above, Generation Adidas players and former college players who are still eligible despite having recently left higher education (since the conclusion of the 2022 college season).
This will be the 25th Superdraft in MLS history (Leo Cullen had the honor of being the first No.1 pick, selected by the Miami Fusion in 1998).
MLS SuperDraft 2024 procedure
The order of selection is based on the reverse order of where the clubs finished in the overall standings at the end of the season - including regular season positions and final places in the playoffs. That means that Toronto FC, who finished the regular season bottom of the Eastern Conference on 22 points, get the first pick. They will be followed by the Colorado Rapids (bottom of the Eastern Conference on 27 points), Inter Miami (14th in the EC with 34 points) then Colorado again, who acquired fourth pick from LA Galaxy via a trade. The first 11 selections will be teams that failed to qualify for the 2023 MLS Cup playoffs, in reverse order.
The process continues, in order, with each franchise making their selection up to the last two teams to take part in the draft - the 28th: LAFC, who finished as MLS runners-up, and lastly, champions Columbus Crew as the 29th.
Each team is permitted four minutes to make a selection in Round 1 and three minutes to make a selection in the subsequent rounds (2 and 3). Teams that fail to make their selection in time must wait until the next selection is made, regardless if their choice is presented prior to the next club’s decision.
MLS SuperDraft 2024 selection order
- Toronto FC (22 points in the 2023 regular season)
- Colorado Rapids (27 points)
- Inter Miami (34 points)
- Colorado Rapids (acquired via a trade with the LA Galaxy: 36 points)
- Austin FC (39 points)
- Chicago Fire (40 points)
- DC United (40 points)
- New York City FC (41 points)
- Minnesota United (41 points)
- Montreal (41 points)
- Portland Timbers (43 points)
- Colorado Rapids (acquired in a trade with Charlotte FC)
- San Jose Earthquakes (Western Conference wild card)
- New York Red Bulls (Eastern Conference first round)
- FC Dallas (46 points)
- St Louis CITY (acquired in a trade with Vancouver Whitecaps who finished with 48 points in first round)
- Nashville SC (Eastern Conference first round)
- Real Salt Lake (Western Conference first round)
- Atlanta United (Eastern Conference first round)
- New England Revolution (Eastern Conference first round)
- Colorado Rapids (acquired in a trade with St Louis CITY)
- Sporting Kansas City (Western Conference semi-finals)
- Seattle Sounders (Western Conference semi-finals)
- Inter Miami (acquired in a trade with Philadelphia Union: 55 points/Eastern Conference semi-finals)
- Orlando City (Eastern Conference semi-finals)
- Houston Dynamo (Western Conference runners-up)
- FC Cincinnati (Eastern Conference runners-up)
- LAFC (MLS Cup runners-up)
- Columbus Crew MLS Cup winners)
Don’t miss it!
The MLS SuperDraft 2024 will take place at the MLS Season Pass studios in New York City, hosted by MLS 360 Senior Editor Andrew Wiebe, who will be joined by Sacha Kljestan, Miguel Gallardo, Kaylyn Kyle and special guests Houston Dash goalkeeper Devon Kerr and singer Matt Doyle.