The 2019 Seattle Sounders FC season was the club's eleventh season in

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, the United States' top-tier of professional soccer. The 2019 season was

Brian Schmetzer Brian Thomas Schmetzer (born August 18, 1962) is an American soccer coach and former professional player. He is the head coach of Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer (MLS), having been assistant coach for the team until Sigi Schmid's depa ...

's third full MLS season as head coach of the Sounders. Seattle-based

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became the official jersey sponsor of the Sounders in the 2019 season. Sounders FC won their second MLS Cup title at the end of the season, playing in front of a franchise-record 69,274 fans at CenturyLink Field.

Background

Recap

In January 2019, the Sounders announced that their

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-affiliated team, Seattle Sounders FC 2, that had moved to

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would be re-branded as the

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. In addition, the club announced that

would replace

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as the jersey sponsor after signing a multi-year deal. Long-time midfielder

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, who had served as captain and been with the club since its inaugural MLS season, was released into free agency and signed with

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in January 2019. Defender

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, who had joined in 2014, announced his retirement from professional soccer on May 22, leaving mid-way through the season. On August 2, defender Román Torres was suspended for ten matches after testing positive for a

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by the league. The Sounders clinched a spot in the

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by virtue of having the 4th best record in the regular season and making it to the Western Conference Finals in the Playoffs; the three other teams in the Conference Finals had also clinched berths in the Champions League or were ineligible (in the case of

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Roster

Competitions

Preseason

Mobile Mini Sun Cup

Other

Friendlies

Major League Soccer

League tables

=Western Conference

=Overall

Results

MLS Cup Playoffs

U.S. Open Cup

Statistics

Appearances and goals

''Numbers after plus-sign(+) denote appearances as a substitute.'' '' AC' – Defiance player

Top scorers

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Raúl Ruidíaz Raúl Mario Ruidíaz Misitich (; born 25 July 1990) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Atlético Grau in the Peruvian Primera División. His nickname, "The Flea", stems from his small frame and his ability to get ...

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Nicolás Lodeiro Marcelo Nicolás Lodeiro Benítez (; born 21 March 1989), commonly known as Nicolás Lodeiro, is a Uruguayan professional Association football, footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Major League Soccer club Houston Dynamo FC, Houst ...

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Cristian Roldan Cristian Roldan (born June 3, 1995) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC. Roldan was the 2013 Gatorade National Player of the Year while playing for El Rancho Hig ...

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Top assists

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, 1 , 0 , 0 , 1 , -

Disciplinary record

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Stefan Frei Stefan Frei (born 20 April 1986) is a Swiss professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC. Born in Switzerland, Frei moved with his fam ...

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Honors and awards

MLS Team of the Week

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MLS Goal of the Week

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MLS awards

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Transfers

For transfers in, dates listed are when Sounders FC officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Sounders FC officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from Sounders FC roster.

In

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New York City FC New York City Football Club (often referred to as NYCFC) is an American professional Association football, soccer club based in New York City. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference (MLS), Eastern C ...

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SV Darmstadt 98 Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 e.V., commonly known as Darmstadt 98 (), is a German professional association football club based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The club was founded on 22 May 1898 as FC Olympia Darmstadt. Early in 1919, the association was bri ...

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FC Honka FC Honka is a Finland, Finnish Association football, football club based in Espoo. It was founded in 1957 as Tapion Honka, and changed its name to FC Honka in 1975. The club will play in Kakkonen in the 2024 season, after Esport Honka filed for ...

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Draft picks

Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in. Only trades involving draft picks and executed after the start of

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2nd Round Pick (#44) , , - , January 14, 2019 , Aleks Berkolds , align=center, 59 , align=center, DF ,

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3rd Round Pick (#68) , , -

Out

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Loudoun United FC Loudoun United FC is an American professional soccer team based in Leesburg, Virginia. The team was founded in 2018 as the reserve team of D.C. United and made its debut in the USL Championship in 2019. After ownership changes, it ceased being ...

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C.D. Guadalajara Club Deportivo Guadalajara S.A de C.V. (;), nicknamed ''"Chivas"'' () and simply known as Guadalajara or internationally as Chivas de Guadalajara, is a Mexican professional football club based in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, Jalisco. It ...

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, Undisclosed Fee , ,

Other transactions

* On July 10, 2019, the Sounders signed 8-year-old goalkeeper Bheem Goyal to a first-team contract as part of a Make-a-Wish Foundation partnership. * On August 27, 2019, Seattle Sounders FC received $100,000 in general allocation money from

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 ...

in exchange for the discovery rights for

Hany Mukhtar Hany Abubakr Mukhtar (born 21 March 1995) is a Sudanese/German professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Nashville SC in Major League Soccer. Club career Hertha BSC Mukhtar began playing football at a very early age, ini ...

Notes

:A. Players who are under contract with

References

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