National Women's Soccer League 2014 / Player Allocation

In the National Women's Soccer League Player Allocation ( Engl. Allocation of players ) before the 2014 season the nine participating in the NWSL were franchises 50 internationals assigned to the United States, Canada and Mexico. The football associations of the United States , Canada and Mexico had, like last year, agreed to the content of these players in place to take over the assigned clubs. The results of the assignment process were announced on January 3, 2014.

process

The three participating football associations selected 26 (United States), 16 (Canada) and eight (Mexico) national players who were to play in the NWSL with financial support from their home associations. The aim of this approach was to keep the team budgets of the franchises represented in the NWSL manageable and still ensure that the national players of the associations involved would be able to play and play in the newly founded professional league. Compared to the previous year, the US Football Association increased its quota by three players, while the Mexican Association halved the number of players it sidelined. The number of Canadian players remained unchanged. The inclusion of Houston Dash as the ninth NWSL franchise in December 2013 apparently had no impact on the size of the allocation pool . This led to a certain imbalance in terms of national proportional representation during the allocation.

The result of the assignment was announced on January 3, 2014. The newly founded Houston Dash franchise was assigned only three players (one from each national contingent), and a so-called expansion draft was carried out on January 10th to compensate for the numbers of the squad .

Result

	Boston Breakers	Chicago Red Stars	Houston Dash	Kansas City FC	Portland Thorns FC	Seattle Reign FC	Sky Blue FC	Washington Spirit	Western New York Flash
	Meghan Klingenberg	Shannon Boxx	Whitney Engen	Nicole Barnhart	Rachel Buehler	Stephanie Cox	Jillian Loyden	Yael Averbuch	Carli Lloyd
	Kristie Mewis	Amy LePeilbet		Lauren Holiday	Tobin Heath	Sydney Leroux	Kelley O'Hara	Ashlyn Harris	Abby Wambach
	Heather O'Reilly	Christians Press		Amy Rodriguez	Alex Morgan	Megan Rapinoe	Christie Rampone	Alexandra Krieger
				Becky Sauerbrunn		Hope Solo
	Chelsea Stewart	Adriana Leon	Melissa Tancredi	Desiree Scott	Karina LeBlanc	Carmelina Moscato	Jonelle Filigno	Robyn Gayle	Selenia Iacchelli
	Kaylyn Kyle	Erin McLeod		Lauren Stuhlmann	Christine Sinclair		Sophie Schmidt	Diana Matheson
	Dinora Garza	Rachel Quon	Teresa Noyola	Cecilia Santiago	Jackie Acevedo	Arianna Romero	Mónica Ocampo	Renae Cuéllar	Veronica Perez

The main reason for the resulting imbalances in allocation were player transfers during and after the 2013 season. While most of the US and Canadian players stayed with their franchises from the previous season (or after transfers with their new franchises), the Mexican players became completely new distributed. In addition, some players who had not been able to assert themselves in the 2013 season or who had declared their career end were replaced by the national associations.

• Lori Lindsey , Heather Mitts , Keelin Winters (all USA), Melanie Booth , Bryanna McCarthy , Jodi-Ann Robinson , Rhian Wilkinson , Emily Zurrer (all Canada), Marilyn Díaz , Maribel Domínguez , Alina Garciamendez , Anisa Guajardo , were no longer assigned . Nayeli Rangel , Jenny Ruiz , Marlene Sandoval , Luz Saucedo , Pamela Tajonar and Guadalupe Worbis (all Mexico).
• New in the pool were Yael Averbuch , Stephanie Cox , Whitney Engen , Meghan Klingenberg , Kristie Mewis , Christen Press (all USA), Jonelle Filigno , Selenia Iacchelli , Rachel Quon , Chelsea Stewart , Melissa Tancredi (all Canada), Jackie Acevedo and Arianna Romero (both Mexico).

consequences

On January 10, 2014, a so-called expansion draft was carried out in which the Houston Dash franchise was allowed to choose up to ten players from the squads of the other NWSL franchises, including up to four of the national players originally assigned to other franchises.

One week after the expansion draft, the 2014 college draft is scheduled to take place on January 17, 2014 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NWSL ANNOUNCES 2014 ALLOCATED PLAYERS ( Memento of the original from January 8, 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 4, 2014. 
2. ↑ Kristie Mewis had already risen to the ranks of the US federation paid players during the 2013 season.