The 2020 MLS SuperDraft was the 21st edition of the
SuperDraft conducted by
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...
. The 2020 SuperDraft was the first SuperDraft held exclusively via conference call and web streaming. The first two rounds of the 2020 SuperDraft were held on January 9, 2020 while rounds three and four were held on January 13, 2020. Previously, the SuperDraft had been held in conjunction with the annual January
United Soccer Coaches
The United Soccer Coaches (formerly known as the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)) is an organization of American soccer coaches founded in 1941. It is the largest soccer coaches organization in the world, with more than ...
convention.
Format
The SuperDraft format has remained constant throughout its history and closely resembles that of the
NFL Draft
The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment in the National Football League. Each team is given a position in the drafting order in reve ...
:
#Any
expansion teams
An expansion team is a new team in a sports league, usually from a city that has not hosted a team in that league before, formed with the intention of satisfying the demand for a local team from a population in a new area. Sporting leagues also ...
receive the first picks. MLS has announced that
Inter Miami CF
Club Internacional de FĂștbol Miami (), commonly referred to as Inter Miami, is an American professional soccer club based in the Miami metropolitan area. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference (M ...
and
Nashville SC
Nashville Soccer Club is an American professional soccer club based in Nashville, Tennessee. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The team spent two seasons in the USL Championship before joining ...
would begin play as expansion teams in 2020. Inter Miami CF would select first, and Nashville SC second.
#Non-playoff clubs receive the next picks in reverse order of prior season finish.
#Teams that made the
MLS Cup Playoffs are then ordered by which round of the playoffs they are eliminated.
#The winners of the
MLS Cup
MLS Cup is the annual championship game of Major League Soccer (MLS) and the culmination of the MLS Playoffs. The game is held in November or December and pits the winner of the Eastern Conference Final against the winner of the Western Confere ...
are given the last selection, and the losers the penultimate selection.
Player selection
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Trades
;Round 1
;Round 2
;Round 3
;Round 4
Notable undrafted players
Homegrown players
Players who signed outside of MLS
This is a list of undrafted players who signed in leagues outside of MLS.
Summary
Selections by college athletic conference
Schools with multiple draft selections
References
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Major League Soccer drafts
SuperDraft
MLS SuperDraft
The MLS SuperDraft is an annual Draft (sports), college draft for teams of Major League Soccer in the United States and Canada in which MLS clubs take turns selecting from a pool of eligible amateur players. These drafted players usually come f ...