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{{Infobox expansion draft
| name             = 2008 MLS Expansion Draft
| date             = November 26, 2008
| expansion_team   = [[Seattle Sounders FC]]
| expansion_season = [[2009 Major League Soccer season|2009]]
| prev             = [[2007 MLS Expansion Draft|2007]]
| next             = [[2009 MLS Expansion Draft|2009]]
}}
The '''2008 MLS Expansion Draft''' took place on November 26, 2008, and was a special [[draft (sports)|draft]] for the [[Major League Soccer]] expansion team [[Seattle Sounders FC]]. They made 10 selections from a pool of players from the other 14 MLS clubs.

==Format==

[https://web.archive.org/web/20081028030608/http://web.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20081024&content_id=198758&vkey=pr_mls&fext=.jsp Source]

* Only one player could be selected from each team. Four of the league's 14 current teams did not have a player selected.
* Teams were allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. [[Generation Adidas]] players were automatically protected, though players who are graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2008 season were not.
* Teams with 4 or more international players were required to protect 3 of them. If a team had 3 or fewer international players, then it was required to protect all but one.
* Any developmental players selected were required to be moved up to the senior roster for the 2009 season.

==Expansion Draft Results==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%;"
|- bgcolor="#eeeeee"
|'''#'''
|'''Player'''
|'''Position'''
|'''Country'''
|'''Previous club'''
|-
|1
|[[Nate Jaqua]]
|F
|{{USA}}
|[[Houston Dynamo]]
|-
|2
|[[Nathan Sturgis]]
|M
|{{USA}}
|[[Real Salt Lake]]
|-
|3
|[[Jeff Parke]]
|D
|{{USA}}
|[[New York Red Bulls]]
|-
|4
|[[Jarrod Smith]]
|F
|{{NZ}}
|[[Toronto FC]]
|-
|5
|[[Khano Smith]]
|M
|{{BER}}
|[[New England Revolution]]
|-
|6
|[[Peter Vagenas]]
|M
|{{USA}}
|[[Los Angeles Galaxy]]
|-
|7
|[[Tyson Wahl]]
|D
|{{USA}}
|[[Kansas City Wizards]]
|-
|8
|[[James Riley (soccer)|James Riley]]
|D
|{{USA}}
|[[San Jose Earthquakes]]
|-
|9
|[[Stephen King (soccer)|Stephen King]]
|M
|{{USA}}
|[[Chicago Fire S.C.|Chicago Fire]]
|-
|10
|[[Brad Evans (soccer)|Brad Evans]]
|M
|{{USA}}
|[[Columbus Crew]]
|-
|}

==Team-by-team breakdown==

[http://ww2.mlsnet.com/news/mls_news.jsp?ymd=20081124&content_id=206683&vkey=pr_mls&fext=.jsp Source]{{dead link|date=September 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

===Chicago Fire===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
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!style="width:25%"|
Protected
!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Mike Banner]]||[[Cuauhtémoc Blanco]]||[[Patrick Nyarko]]
|-
|[[C. J. Brown]]||[[Jon Busch]]||
|-
|[[Calen Carr]]||[[Wilman Conde, Jr.]]||
|-
|[[Tomasz Frankowski]]||[[Justin Mapp]]||
|-
|[[Andy Herron]]||[[Brian McBride]]||
|-
|[[Kai Kasiguran]]||[[Logan Pause]]||
|-
|[[Tyler Kettering]]||[[Dasan Robinson]]||
|-
|[[Stephen King (soccer)|Stephen King]]||[[Chris Rolfe]]||
|-
|[[Peter Lowry]]||[[Gonzalo Segares]]||
|-
|[[Líder Mármol]]||[[Bakary Soumare]]||
|-
|[[Nick Noble (soccer)|Nick Noble]]||[[John Thorrington]]||
|-
|[[Marco Pappa]]||||
|-
|[[Brandon Prideaux]]||||
|-
|[[Austin Washington]]||||
|-
|[[Daniel Woolard]]||||
|-
|}

===Chivas USA===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
Protected
!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Kraig Chiles]]||[[Bobby Burling]]||
|-
|[[Jim Curtin]]||[[Jonathan Bornstein]]||
|-
|[[Dejair Jorge Ferreira|Dejair]]||[[Justin Braun (soccer)|Justin Braun]]||
|-
|[[Eric Ebert]]||[[Alecko Eskandarian]]||
|-
|[[Jorge Flores (footballer born 1989)|Jorge Flores]]||[[Maykel Galindo]]||
|-
|[[Anthony Hamilton (soccer player)|Anthony Hamilton]]||[[Atiba Harris]]||
|-
|[[Dan Kennedy (soccer player)|Dan Kennedy]]||[[Sacha Kljestan]]||
|-
|[[Gerson Mayen]]||[[Jesse Marsch]]||
|-
|[[Roberto Nurse]]||[[Francisco Mendoza (footballer)|Francisco Mendoza]]||
|-
|[[Daniel Paladini]]||[[Paulo Nagamura]]||
|-
|[[Lance Parker]]||[[Shavar Thomas]]||
|-
|[[Ante Razov]]||||
|-
|[[Keith Savage]]||||
|-
|[[Claudio Suárez]]||||
|-
|[[Carey Talley]]||||
|-
|[[Zach Thornton]]||||
|-
|[[Lawson Vaughn]]||||
|-
|[[Sasha Victorine]]||||
|-
|[[Raphaël Wicky]]||||
|-
|[[Alex Zotinca]]||||
|-
|}

===Colorado Rapids===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
Exposed
!style="width:25%"|
Protected
!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Jose Burciaga Jr.|José Burciaga, Jr.]]||[[Mehdi Ballouchy]]||[[Nico Colaluca]]
|-
|[[Preston Burpo]]||[[Conor Casey]]||[[Ciaran O'Brien]]
|-
|[[Terry Cooke]]||[[Colin Clark (soccer)|Colin Clark]]||
|-
|[[Greg Dalby]]||[[Bouna Coundoul]]||
|-
|[[John DiRaimondo]]||[[Omar Cummings]]||
|-
|[[Facundo Erpen]]||[[Cory Gibbs]]||
|-
|Brian Grazier||[[Christian Gómez]]||
|-
|[[Jordan Harvey]]||[[Ugo Ihemelu]]||
|-
|Justin Hughes||[[Nick LaBrocca]]||
|-
|[[Stephen Keel]]||[[Pablo Mastroeni]]||
|-
|[[Kosuke Kimura]]||[[Jacob Peterson (soccer)|Jacob Peterson]]||
|-
|[[Tam McManus]]||||
|-
|[[Mike Petke]]||||
|-
|[[Kwame Sarkodie]]||||
|-
|[[Tim Ward (soccer)|Tim Ward]]||||
|-
|[[Cesar Zambrano]]||||
|-
|}

===Columbus Crew===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
Exposed
!style="width:25%"|
Protected
!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Kevin Burns (soccer)|Kevin Burns]]||[[Guillermo Barros Schelotto]]||[[Jed Zayner]]
|-
|[[Cory Elenio]]||[[Brian Carroll]]||
|-
|[[Brad Evans (soccer)|Brad Evans]]||[[Emmanuel Ekpo]]||
|-
|[[Jason Garey]]||[[Frankie Hejduk]]||
|-
|[[Eddie Gaven]]||[[Will Hesmer]]||
|-
|[[Andy Gruenebaum]]||[[Andy Iro]]||
|-
|[[Ezra Hendrickson]]||[[Chad Marshall]]||
|-
|[[George Josten]]||[[Alejandro Moreno]]||
|-
|[[Ryan Junge]]||[[Danny O'Rourke (soccer)|Danny O'Rourke]]||
|-
|[[Steven Lenhart]]||[[Gino Padula]]||
|-
|[[Stefani Miglioranzi]]||[[Robbie Rogers]]||
|-
|[[Adam Moffat]]||||
|-
|[[Pat Noonan]]||||
|-
|[[Stanley Nyazamba]]||||
|-
|[[Duncan Oughton]]||||
|-
|[[Andrew Peterson (soccer)|Andrew Peterson]]||||
|-
|[[Ricardo Pierre-Louis]]||||
|-
|[[Brian Plotkin]]||||
|-
|[[Kenny Schoeni]]||||
|-
|}

===DC United===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
Exposed
!style="width:25%"|
Protected
!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Jeff Carroll (soccer)|Jeff Carroll]]||[[Marc Burch]]||
|-
|[[Pat Carroll (soccer)|Pat Carroll]]||[[Luciano Emilio]]||
|-
|[[Ryan Cordeiro]]||[[Helbert Frederico Carreiro da Silva|Fred]]||
|-
|[[Louis Crayton]]||[[Iván Guerrero]]||
|-
|[[Francis Doe]]||[[Greg Janicki]]||
|-
|[[Rod Dyachenko]]||[[Thabiso Khumalo]]||
|-
|[[Marcelo Gallardo]]||[[Devon McTavish]]||
|-
|[[Quavas Kirk]]||[[Jaime Moreno (footballer, born 1974)|Jaime Moreno]]||
|-
|[[Ibrahim Koroma]]||[[Bryan Namoff]]||
|-
|[[Gonzalo Martínez]]||[[Santino Quaranta]]||
|-
|[[Domenic Mediate]]||[[Clyde Simms]]||
|-
|[[Ryan Miller (soccer)|Ryan Miller]]||||
|-
|[[Ben Olsen]]||||
|-
|[[Gonzalo Peralta]]||||
|-
|[[Craig Thompson (soccer)|Craig Thompson]]||||
|-
|[[James Thorpe (soccer)|James Thorpe]]||||
|-
|[[Joe Vide]]||||
|-
|[[Zach Wells]]||||
|-
|[[Mike Zaher]]||||
|-
|}

===FC Dallas===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
Exposed
!style="width:25%"|
Protected
!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Ray Burse]]||[[Kenny Cooper]]||[[Eric Avila]]
|-
|Andrew Daniels||[[Jeff Cunningham]]||[[Bruno Guarda]]
|-
|[[Duilio Davino]]||[[Dax McCarty]]||[[Josh Lambo]]
|-
|[[Michael Dello-Russo]]||[[Drew Moor]]||[[Brek Shea]]
|-
|[[Aaron Pitchkolan]]||[[Dominic Oduro]]||[[Anthony Wallace (soccer)|Anthony Wallace]]
|-
|[[Jeff Rowland (soccer)|Jeff Rowland]]||[[Pablo Ricchetti]]||
|-
|[[Victor Sikora]]||[[André Guerreiro Rocha|André Rocha]]||
|-
|Spencer Wadsworth||[[Darío Sala]]||
|-
|[[David Wagenfuhr]]||[[Marcelo Saragosa]]||
|-
|[[Jamie Watson (soccer)|Jamie Watson]]||[[Adrian Serioux]]||
|-
|[[Chase Wileman]]||[[Blake Wagner]]||
|-
|}

===Houston Dynamo===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
Exposed
!style="width:25%"|
Protected
!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Johnny Alcaraz]]||[[Bobby Boswell]]||
|-
|[[Corey Ashe]]||[[Geoff Cameron]]||
|-
|[[Wade Barrett (soccer)|Wade Barrett]]||[[Brian Ching]]||
|-
|[[Kyle Brown (soccer)|Kyle Brown]]||[[Ricardo Clark]]||
|-
|[[Tony Caig]]||[[Brad Davis (soccer)|Brad Davis]]||
|-
|[[Mike Chabala]]||[[Dwayne De Rosario]]||
|-
|[[Nick Hatzke]]||[[Stuart Holden]]||
|-
|[[John Michael Hayden]]||[[Kei Kamara]]||
|-
|[[Patrick Ianni]]||[[Guy-Roland Kpene]]||
|-
|[[Nate Jaqua]]||[[Brian Mullan]]||
|-
|[[Richard Mulrooney]]||[[Eddie Robinson (soccer)|Eddie Robinson]]||
|-
|[[Pat Onstad]]||||
|-
|[[Erik Ustruck]]||||
|-
|[[Craig Waibel]]||||
|-
|Corbin Waller||||
|-
|[[Chris Wondolowski]]||||
|-
|Stephen Wondolowski||||
|-
|}

===Kansas City Wizards===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Kevin Hartman]]||[[Davy Arnaud]]||[[Roger Espinoza]]
|-
|[[Aaron Hohlbein]]||[[Jimmy Conrad]]||[[Chance Myers]]
|-
|[[Michael Kraus (soccer)|Michael Kraus]]||[[Adam Cristman]]||
|-
|[[Eric Kronberg]]||[[Herculez Gomez]]||
|-
|[[Matt Marquess]]||[[Michael Harrington (soccer)|Michael Harrington]]||
|-
|[[Rauwshan McKenzie]]||[[Jack Jewsbury]]||
|-
|[[Kurt Morsink]]||[[Jonathan Leathers|Jon Leathers]]||
|-
|Boris Pardo||[[Claudio López (footballer)|Claudio López]]||
|-
|[[Iván Trujillo]]||[[Carlos Marinelli]]||
|-
|[[Nelson Pizarro]]||[[Kevin Souter]]||
|-
|[[Ryan Pore]]||[[Josh Wolff]]||
|-
|[[Abe Thompson]]||||
|-
|[[Tyson Wahl]]||||
|-
|[[Lance Watson]]||||
|-
|}

===Los Angeles Galaxy===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|Vardan Adzemian||[[David Beckham]]||[[Tristan Bowen]]
|-
|Charles Alamo||[[Edson Buddle]]||[[Israel Sesay]]
|-
|[[Ely Allen]]||[[Landon Donovan]]||
|-
|Jeremy Barlow||[[Sean Franklin]]||
|-
|[[Steve Cronin]]||[[Alan Gordon (soccer)|Alan Gordon]]||
|-
|[[Eduardo Dominguez]]||[[Ante Jazic]]||
|-
|[[Joe Franchino]]||[[Bryan Jordan]]||
|-
|[[Michael Gavin (soccer)|Michael Gavin]]||[[Eddie Lewis (American soccer player)|Eddie Lewis]]||
|-
|[[Jovan Kirovski]]||[[Brandon McDonald (soccer)|Brandon McDonald]]||
|-
|[[Chris Klein (soccer)|Chris Klein]]||[[Álvaro Henrique Alves Pires|Álvaro Pires]]||
|-
|[[Mike Munoz (soccer)|Mike Munoz]]||[[Troy Roberts (soccer)|Troy Roberts]]||
|-
|[[Mike Randolph]]||||
|-
|[[Josh Saunders]]||||
|-
|[[Josh Tudela]]||||
|-
|[[Peter Vagenas]]||||
|-
|[[Julian Valentin]]||||
|-
|[[Josh Wicks]]||||
|-
|}

===New England Revolution===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[José Angulo]]||[[Chris Albright]]||[[Amaechi Igwe]]
|-
|[[Gabriel Badilla]]||[[Kheli Dube]]||[[Rob Valentino]]
|-
|[[Sam Brill]]||[[Jay Heaps]]||
|-
|[[Mauricio Castro]]||[[Shalrie Joseph]]||
|-
|[[Argenis Fernández]]||[[Jeff Larentowicz]]||
|-
|[[Gary Flood]]||[[Kenny Mansally]]||
|-
|[[Joe Germanese]]||[[Sainey Nyassi]]||
|-
|[[Brad Knighton]]||[[Michael Parkhurst]]||
|-
|[[Brandon Manzonelli]]||[[Steve Ralston]]||
|-
|[[Pat Phelan (soccer)|Pat Phelan]]||[[Matt Reis]]||
|-
|[[Khano Smith]]||[[Taylor Twellman]]||
|-
|[[Wells Thompson]]||||
|-
|[[Chris Tierney (soccer)|Chris Tierney]]||||
|-
|[[Brandon Tyler]]||||
|-
|[[Doug Warren]]||||
|-
|}

===New York Red Bulls===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Danleigh Borman]]||[[Juan Pablo Ángel]]||
|-
|[[Terry Boss]]||[[Danny Cepero]]||
|-
|[[Andrew Boyens]]||[[Jon Conway]]||
|-
|[[Gabriel Cichero]]||[[Kevin Goldthwaite]]||
|-
|[[Oscar Echeverry|Óscar Echeverry]]||[[Macoumba Kandji]]||
|-
|[[John Gilkerson]]||[[Dane Richards]]||
|-
|[[Diego Jiménez (footballer, born 1986)|Diego Jimenez]]||[[Jorge Alberto Rojas|Jorge Rojas]]||
|-
|[[Gordon Kljestan]]||[[Luke Sassano]]||
|-
|[[Chris Leitch]]||[[Seth Stammler]]||
|-
|[[Mike Magee (soccer)|Mike Magee]]||[[Siniša Ubiparipović]]||
|-
|[[Matthew Mbuta]]||[[Dave van den Bergh]]||
|-
|[[Carlos Mendes]]||||
|-
|[[Mike Palacio]]||||
|-
|[[Jeff Parke]]||||
|-
|[[Caleb Patterson-Sewell]]||||
|-
|[[Juan Pietravallo]]||||
|-
|[[David Roth (soccer)|David Roth]]||||
|-
|[[Sainey Touray]]||||
|-
|[[John Wolyniec]]||||
|-
|}

===Real Salt Lake===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Nikolas Besagno]]||[[Kyle Beckerman]]||[[Tony Beltran]]
|-
|[[Kenny Cutler]]||[[Nat Borchers]]||[[Alex Nimo]]
|-
|[[Kenny Deuchar]]||[[Fabián Espíndola]]||[[Chris Seitz]]
|-
|[[David Horst]]||[[Robbie Findley]]||
|-
|[[Ian Joy]]||[[Will Johnson (soccer)|Will Johnson]]||
|-
|[[Dustin Kirby]]||[[Javier Morales]]||
|-
|[[Dema Kovalenko]]||[[Yura Movsisyan]]||
|-
|[[Clint Mathis]]||[[Jámison Olave]]||
|-
|[[Tino Nunez|Tino Núñez]]||[[Nick Rimando]]||
|-
|Kevin Reiman||[[Robbie Russell (soccer)|Robbie Russell]]||
|-
|[[Kyle Reynish]]||[[Chris Wingert]]||
|-
|[[Nathan Sturgis]]||||
|-
|Brennan Tennelle||||
|-
|[[Andy Williams (soccer)|Andy Williams]]||||
|-
|}

===San Jose Earthquakes===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
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|-
|[[Mikel Arce]]||[[Arturo Álvarez (footballer, born 1985)|Arturo Alvarez]]||
|-
|[[Jay Ayres]]||[[Joe Cannon (soccer)|Joe Cannon]]||
|-
|[[John Cunliffe (footballer born 1984)|John Cunliffe]]||[[Ryan Cochrane (soccer)|Ryan Cochrane]]||
|-
|[[Eric Denton (soccer)|Eric Denton]]||[[Ramiro Corrales]]||
|-
|[[Gavin Glinton]]||[[Nick Garcia]]||
|-
|[[Ned Grabavoy]]||[[Jason Hernandez]]||
|-
|[[Kelly Gray]]||[[Darren Huckerby]]||
|-
|Michael Gustavson||[[Ryan Johnson (soccer)|Ryan Johnson]]||
|-
|Matt Hatzke||[[Francisco Lima]]||
|-
|[[Amir Lowery]]||[[Shea Salinas]]||
|-
|[[Ronnie O'Brien]]||[[Scott Sealy]]||
|-
|[[James Riley (soccer)|James Riley]]||||
|-
|[[Jamil Roberts (soccer, born 1986)|Jamil Roberts]]||||
|-
|[[Adam Smarte]]||||
|-
|[[Davide Somma]]||||
|-
|[[Sina Shabany]]||||
|-

|}

===Toronto FC===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!style="width:23%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
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!style="width:25%"|
Exempt
|-
|[[Nana Attakora]]||[[Chad Barrett]]||[[Fuad Ibrahim]]
|-
|Kilian Elkinson||[[Jim Brennan]]||
|-
|[[Hunter Freeman]]||[[Danny Dichio]]||
|-
|[[Gabe Gala]]||[[Todd Dunivant]]||
|-
|[[Derek Gaudet]]||[[Brian Edwards (soccer)|Brian Edwards]]||
|-
|[[Joey Melo]]||[[Amado Guevara]]||
|-
|[[Rohan Ricketts]]||[[Kevin Harmse]]||
|-
|[[Tyler Rosenlund]]||[[Julius James]]||
|-
|[[Carlos Ruiz (Guatemalan footballer)|Carlos Ruiz]]||[[Tyrone Marshall]]||
|-
|[[Jarrod Smith]]||[[Carl Robinson]]||
|-
|[[Johann Smith]]||[[Marvell Wynne (soccer)|Marvell Wynne]]||
|-
|[[Greg Sutton (soccer)|Greg Sutton]]||||
|-
|[[Marco Vélez]]||||
|-
|}

{{Major League Soccer}}
{{MLS drafts}}

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