The 2009 WPS International Draft was a special draft for the
Women's Professional Soccer
Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) was the top-level professional women's soccer league in the United States. It began play on March 29, 2009. The league was composed of seven teams for its first two seasons and fielded six teams for the 2011 sea ...
teams
Atlanta Beat and
Philadelphia Independence
The Philadelphia Independence was an American professional soccer club that was based in the Philadelphia suburb of Chester, Pennsylvania. The team joined Women's Professional Soccer as an expansion team in 2010 and played its home games at West ...
taking place on September 22, 2009. Each expansion team picked up to five international players, to be roughly even with the seven existing WPS teams.
FormatOfficial WPS release
* The maximum number of internationals an expansion team may select during the international expansion draft is 5, less any international players (e.g., non-green card holders) selected by a team in the
expansion draft
An expansion draft, in professional sports, occurs when a sports league decides to create one or more new expansion teams or franchises. This occurs mainly in North American sports. One of the ways of stocking the new team or teams is an expansio ...
.
* As per current rules, no team may hold the rights to more than 6 internationals at any one time and may only roster 5 at any one time as per
USSF regulations.
* The Philadelphia Independence will select first in the international draft, the Atlanta Beat second, alternating picks throughout.
Results
See also
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List of WPS drafts
The following is a list of drafts held by Women's Professional Soccer, with a brief description of each.
Preseason 200809 (inaugural)
*2008 WPS Player Allocation: All twenty-one players in the USWNT player pool told the league which of the seven ...
References
womensprosoccer on TwitterArchived
2009-09-26) - see September 22, 2009
Summary on BigSoccer.comArchived
2009-09-26) - posts #1014 and #1015 on page 102 of the thread "WPS - All horses in the stable?"
Atlandta Beat Selects International Players
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2009
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International Draft
WPS International Draft