National Women's Soccer League 2014 / Expansion-Draft
The NWSL Expansion Draft for the 2014 season was carried out on January 10, 2014. Representatives of the Houston Dash franchise, which joined the NWSL for the 2014 season, were able to sign up to ten players from the previous eight NWSL teams in a conference call .
Starting position
This procedure should enable the Dash to set up a competitive team in the tight period up to the start of the season in April 2014. Up to the time of the draft, Whitney Engen , Erin McLeod and Teresa Noyola were only three players in the line-up of the newly founded Dash. These were assigned to the franchise as part of Player Allocation 2014 , or acquired through a subsequent player swap in which McLeod came from the Chicago Red Stars in exchange for the originally assigned Melissa Tancredi .
process
The eight previous NWSL franchises were able to protect a certain contingent of female players from access by the Dash, a list of these female players was published two days before the expansion draft. The franchises had to observe the following rules:
- Teams that reached the play-offs in the 2013 season ( Western New York Flash , Kansas City FC , Portland Thorns FC and Sky Blue FC ) were each allowed to protect nine players, the rest ( Boston Breakers , Chicago Red Stars , Seattle Reign FC and Washington Spirit ) ten players each.
- Any team that received more than two US national players in the 2014 Player Allocation (all except Western New York Flash ) had to leave at least one of those players unprotected.
- The following players had to be protected in any case: players on loan from foreign leagues, foreign players (unless they came to the team as part of the 2014 Player Allocation) and players whose player contracts prevented a free change of team.
The following rules applied to access through the Houston Dash:
- Only up to two of the assigned US internationals were allowed to be signed in the entire draft, plus a maximum of one of the Canadian and Mexican internationals.
- In general, a maximum of two players could be committed to the same franchise. If the selected player was one of the assigned US national team players, no further players could be signed by this franchise.
- After each election of the Dash, the franchise concerned was allowed to protect any of the remaining players.
Result
| Player | Previous franchise | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 round | Brittany Bock | Sky Blue FC |
| 2nd round | Tiffany McCarty | Washington Spirit |
| 3rd round | Lauren Stuhlmann | Kansas City FC |
| 4th round | Meleana Shim | Portland Thorns FC |
| 5th round | Ella Masar | Chicago Red Stars |
| 6th round | Meghan Klingenberg | Boston Breakers |
| 7th round | Arianna Romero | Seattle Reign FC |
| 8th round | Becky Edwards | Portland Thorns FC |
| 9th round | Danesha Adams | Sky Blue FC |
| 10th round | Kika Toulouse | Washington Spirit |
With Meghan Klingenberg (USA), Lauren Stuhlmann (Canada) and Arianna Romero (Mexico), the Dash selected three national players who had originally been assigned to other franchises in the 2014 Player Allocation. The Western New York Flash franchise was the only one spared access by the Houston Dash in the expansion draft.
Individual evidence
- ↑ RED STARS ACQUIRE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL MELISSA TANCREDI ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , nwslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved January 10, 2014.
- ↑ NWSL ANNOUNCES AVAILABLE PLAYERS AHEAD OF 2014 EXPANSION DRAFT ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , nwslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved January 10, 2014.
- ↑ NWSL TO HOLD EXPANSION DRAFT ON JAN. 10 , nwslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved January 10, 2014.
