2017 Major League Soccer season

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Major League Soccer 2017
Season information
Continental cup qualifiers
Champions League
Champions League qualifying playoff
Season statistics
Matches played	276
Goals scored	809
Top goalscorer	David Villa (19 goals)
Biggest home win	5 goals: TOR 5–0 CLB (May 26)
Biggest away win	5 goals: MIN 1–6 ATL (Mar 12)
Highest scoring	8 goals: DAL 6–2 RSL (Jun 3) LA 2–6 RSL (Jul 4)
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The 2017 Major League Soccer season is the 22nd season of Major League Soccer, top division of soccer in the United States and Canada. The regular season began on March 3, 2017 and will conclude in October 2017. The MLS Cup Playoffs are expected to begin in late October 2017 and conclude with MLS Cup 2017 in December 2017.

Two new clubs have joined the league as expansion franchises: Atlanta United FC and Minnesota United. The two franchises are the 21st and 22nd teams in the league.

Seattle Sounders FC are the defending MLS Cup champions, while FC Dallas are the defending Supporters' Shield champions.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Western Conference Team Stadium Capacity Colorado Rapids Dick's Sporting Goods Park 18,061 FC Dallas Toyota Stadium 20,500 Houston Dynamo BBVA Compass Stadium 22,039 LA Galaxy StubHub Center 27,000 Minnesota United FC TCF Bank Stadium 21,895 Portland Timbers Providence Park 21,144 Real Salt Lake Rio Tinto Stadium 20,213 San Jose Earthquakes Avaya Stadium 18,000 Seattle Sounders FC CenturyLink Field 39,419 Sporting Kansas City Children's Mercy Park 18,467 Vancouver Whitecaps FC BC Place 22,120

Eastern Conference Team Stadium Capacity Atlanta United FC Mercedes-Benz Stadium 40,000 Chicago Fire Toyota Park 20,000 Columbus Crew SC Mapfre Stadium 19,968 D.C. United RFK Stadium 20,000 Montreal Impact Saputo Stadium 20,801 New England Revolution Gillette Stadium 20,000 New York City FC Yankee Stadium 30,321 New York Red Bulls Red Bull Arena 25,000 Orlando City SC Orlando City Stadium 25,500 Philadelphia Union Talen Energy Stadium 18,500 Toronto FC BMO Field 30,000

Personnel and Sponsorship

Note: All teams use Adidas as kit manufacturer.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Shirt sponsor
Atlanta United FC	Martino, GerardoGerardo Martino	Parkhurst, MichaelMichael Parkhurst	American Family Insurance
Chicago Fire	Paunović, VeljkoVeljko Paunović	Juninho, Juninho	Valspar
Colorado Rapids	Mastroeni, PabloPablo Mastroeni	Howard, TimTim Howard	Transamerica
Columbus Crew SC	Berhalter, GreggGregg Berhalter	Trapp, WilWil Trapp	Acura
D.C. United	Olsen, BenBen Olsen	Birnbaum, SteveSteve Birnbaum	Leidos
FC Dallas	Pareja, OscarOscar Pareja	Hedges, MattMatt Hedges	AdvoCare
Houston Dynamo	Cabrera, WilmerWilmer Cabrera	Beasley, DaMarcusDaMarcus Beasley	BHP Billiton]
LA Galaxy	Onalfo, CurtCurt Onalfo	Van Damme, JelleJelle Van Damme	Herbalife
Minnesota United FC	Heath, AdrianAdrian Heath	Calvo, FranciscoFrancisco Calvo	Target
Montreal Impact	Biello, MauroMauro Biello	Bernier, PatricePatrice Bernier	Bank of Montreal
New England Revolution	Heaps, JayJay Heaps	Nguyen, LeeLee Nguyen	UnitedHealthcare
New York City FC	Vieira, PatrickPatrick Vieira	Villa, DavidDavid Villa	Etihad Airways
New York Red Bulls	Marsch, JesseJesse Marsch	Kljestan, SachaSacha Kljestan	Red Bull
Orlando City SC	Kreis, JasonJason Kreis	Kaká, Kaká	Orlando Health
Philadelphia Union	Curtin, JimJim Curtin	Bedoya, AlejandroAlejandro Bedoya	Bimbo Bakeries USA
Portland Timbers	Porter, CalebCaleb Porter	Ridgewell, LiamLiam Ridgewell	Alaska Airlines
Real Salt Lake	Mike Petke	Beckerman, KyleKyle Beckerman	LifeVantage
San Jose Earthquakes	Kinnear, DominicDominic Kinnear	Wondolowski, ChrisChris Wondolowski	Sutter Health
Seattle Sounders FC	Schmetzer, BrianBrian Schmetzer	Alonso, OsvaldoOsvaldo Alonso	Xbox
Sporting Kansas City	Vermes, PeterPeter Vermes	Besler, MattMatt Besler	Ivy Funds
Toronto FC	Vanney, GregGreg Vanney	Bradley, MichaelMichael Bradley	Bank of Montreal
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Robinson, CarlCarl Robinson	Waston, KendallKendall Waston	Bell Canada

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Houston Dynamo	Barrett, WadeWade Barrett (interim)	End of interim period	02016-10-28-October 28, 2016	Pre-season	Cabrera, WilmerWilmer Cabrera	02016-10-28-October 28, 2016
LA Galaxy	Arena, BruceBruce Arena	Signed by United States	02016-11-22-November 22, 2016		Onalfo, CurtCurt Onalfo	02016-12-13-December 13, 2016
Real Salt Lake	Cassar, JeffJeff Cassar	Mutual consent	02017-03-20-March 20, 2017	10th in West, 19th overall	Shore, DarylDaryl Shore (interim)	02017-03-20-March 20, 2017
	Shore, DarylDaryl Shore (interim)	End of interim period	02017-03-29-March 29, 2017	9th in West, 19th overall	Petke, MikeMike Petke	02017-03-29-March 29, 2017
San Jose Earthquakes	Kinnear, DominicDominic Kinnear	Fired	02017-06-25-June 25, 2017	5th in West, 12th overall	Leitch, ChrisChris Leitch	02017-06-25-June 25, 2017
LA Galaxy	Onalfo, CurtCurt Onalfo	Fired	02017-07-27-July 27, 2017	9th in West, 19th overall	Schmid, SigiSigi Schmid	02017-07-27-July 27, 2017
Colorado Rapids	Pablo Mastroeni	Fired	August 15, 2017	10th in West, 20th overall	Steve Cooke (interim)	August 15, 2017

Regular season

Format

Each team plays the other 10 teams in its conference home and away, plus an extra match against three of its conference rivals. In addition, one match is played against the 11 sides in the other conference. In total, each team will play 17 home and 17 away games.

Conference standings

Eastern Conference

Main article: Eastern Conference (MLS)

2017 Major League Soccer Eastern Conference table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Toronto	34	20	5	9	74	37	+37	65	Conference Semi-finals
2	New York City	34	16	9	9	56	43	+13	57
3	Chicago Fire	34	16	11	7	62	48	+14	59	Knockout round
4	Atlanta United	34	15	9	10	70	40	+30	54
5	Columbus Crew	34	16	12	6	53	49	+4	60
6	New York Red Bulls	34	14	12	8	53	47	+6	54
7	New England Revolution	34	13	15	6	53	61	−8	54
8	Philadelphia Union	34	11	14	9	50	47	+3	47
9	Montreal Impact	34	11	17	6	52	58	−6	50
10	Orlando City	34	10	15	9	58	58	0	45
11	D.C. United	34	9	20	5	31	60	−29	47

Updated to games played on May 28 2017
Source: 2016 Major League Soccer Eastern Conference
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Western Conference

Main article: Western Conference (MLS)

2017 Major League Soccer Western Conference table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Portland Timbers	34	15	11	8	60	50	+10	56	Conference Semi-finals
2	Seattle Sounders	34	14	9	11	52	39	+13	51
3	Vancouver Whitecaps	34	15	12	7	50	49	+1	57	Knockout round
4	Houston Dynamo	34	13	10	11	57	45	+12	49
5	Sporting Kansas City	34	12	9	13	40	29	+11	45
6	San Jose Earthquakes	34	13	14	7	39	60	−21	53
7	FC Dallas	34	11	10	13	48	48	0	43
8	Real Salt Lake	34	13	15	6	48	56	−8	54
9	Minnesota United	34	10	18	6	47	70	−23	48
10	Colorado Rapids	34	9	19	6	31	51	−20	46
11	LA Galaxy	34	8	18	8	45	67	−22	42

Source: 2017 Major League Soccer Western Conference
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Overall table

2017 Major League Soccer table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Toronto  (C)	34	20	5	9	74	37	+37	65	2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League
2	New York City	34	16	9	9	56	43	+13	57
3	Chicago Fire	34	16	11	7	61	47	+14	59
4	Atlanta United	34	15	9	10	70	40	+30	54
5	Columbus Crew	34	16	12	6	53	49	+4	60
6	Portland Timbers	34	15	11	8	60	50	+10	56
7	Seattle Sounders	34	14	9	11	52	39	+13	51
8	Vancouver Whitecaps	34	15	12	7	50	49	+1	57
9	New York Red Bulls	34	14	12	8	53	47	+6	54
10	Houston Dynamo	34	13	10	11	57	45	+12	49
11	Sporting Kansas City	34	12	9	13	40	29	+11	45	2018–19 CONCACAF Champions League
12	San Jose Earthquakes	34	13	14	7	39	60	−21	53
13	FC Dallas	34	11	10	13	48	48	0	43
14	Real Salt Lake	34	13	15	6	49	55	−6	54
15	New England Revolution	34	13	15	6	53	61	−8	54
16	Philadelphia Union	34	11	14	9	50	47	+3	47
17	Montreal Impact	34	11	17	6	52	58	−6	50
18	Orlando City	34	10	15	9	39	58	−19	45
19	Minnesota United	34	10	18	6	47	70	−23	48
20	Colorado Rapids	34	9	19	6	61	51	+10	46
21	D.C. United	34	9	20	5	31	60	−29	47
22	LA Galaxy	34	8	18	8	45	67	−22	42

Source: 2015 Major League Soccer Western Conference
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Position by round

Supporters Shield

This table lists the positions of teams after each week of matches. In order to preserve the chronological evolution, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards. For example, if a match is scheduled for matchday 13, but then postponed and played between days 16 and 17, it will be added to the standings for day 16.

Round\Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
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Toronto FC	13	13	8	9	10	14	16	11	9	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	1
New York City FC	20	8	10	11	5	10	7	10	6	6	8	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2
Chicago Fire	9	5	14	14	13	8	6	9	12	12	10	3	2	3	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	3	3
Seattle Sounders FC	17	15	11	12	12	16	18	12	15	16	19	18	17	13	13	16	15	17	14	11	11	9	5	4
Sporting Kansas City	12	12	9	10	11	6	4	7	4	4	6	2	3	2	3	4	4	4	4	6	4	4	6	5
New York Red Bulls	4	3	7	4	7	12	9	6	3	9	9	11	7	10	10	9	11	12	11	7	5	5	7	6
Houston Dynamo	2	2	5	7	3	4	8	4	7	7	2	6	5	6	7	6	7	11	9	8	8	7	4	7
Portland Timbers	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	5	7	10	12	9	5	7	8	8	10	10	10	10	11	8
Columbus Crew SC	8	17	13	3	2	3	2	5	8	8	3	7	9	8	9	10	6	10	8	9	9	11	8	9
Montreal Impact	21	14	16	17	20	21	19	19	20	18	20	17	21	18	17	17	20	16	17	19	18	16	14	10
Atlanta United FC	18	7	3	5	4	7	10	8	11	13	14	15	11	15	15	11	10	7	6	5	6	6	9	11
FC Dallas	3	6	2	2	6	2	5	3	5	3	5	8	8	7	8	8	9	6	5	4	7	8	10	12
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	10	16	19	20	16	19	14	18	14	11	12	12	14	12	12	12	14	15	13	13	12	13	13	13
San Jose Earthquakes	6	4	6	8	8	11	11	14	10	10	11	9	10	14	14	14	12	9	12	14	14	12	12	14
Orlando City SC	5	9	4	6	9	5	3	2	1	2	4	5	6	5	6	5	5	5	7	12	13	14	15	15
Philadelphia Union	11	11	17	18	21	22	22	22	22	21	18	13	15	17	18	20	17	13	15	16	16	15	16	16
New England Revolution	19	20	22	15	14	9	13	13	16	17	13	14	16	11	11	13	16	18	19	17	15	17	17	17
Real Salt Lake	13	18	18	19	22	17	12	15	17	20	21	21	20	21	21	18	21	22	18	15	17	18	18	18
LA Galaxy	16	21	15	16	19	15	17	20	19	19	15	16	13	16	16	15	13	14	16	18	19	19	19	19
Colorado Rapids	7	10	12	13	15	18	21	21	21	22	22	22	22	22	22	19	22	19	20	20	21	21	20	20
Minnesota United FC	22	22	21	22	18	20	20	17	18	15	17	20	19	20	20	22	19	21	21	21	20	20	21	21
D.C. United	15	19	20	21	17	13	15	16	13	14	16	19	18	19	19	21	18	20	22	22	22	22	22	22

Updated to match(es) played on August 20, 2017. Source: MLS Supporters Shield Standings, MLS Rules and regulations
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) total wins; 3) total goal differential; 4) total goals scored; 5) disciplinary points; 6) away goals scored; 7) away goal differential; 8) home goals scored; 9) home goal differential; 10) coin toss or drawing of lots

Attendance

Average home attendances

Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.

Pos.	Team	GP	Cumulative	High	Low	Mean
1	Atlanta United FC	9	416,864	55,297	44,893	46,318
2	Seattle Sounders FC	12	511,105	47,362	40,182	42,592
3	Toronto FC	13	355,212	29,203	25,200	27,324
4	Orlando City SC	13	328,880	25,527	24,112	25,298
5	New York City FC	13	306,173	33,679	18,515	23,552
6	LA Galaxy	12	277,947	25,667	17,404	23,162
7	Vancouver Whitecaps	12	261,090	25,083	19,083	21,758
8	Portland Timbers	14	296,016	21,144	21,144	21,144
9	New York Red Bulls	12	247,248	25,219	16,213	20,604
10	San Jose Earthquakes	13	266,617	50,617	18,000	20,509
11	Montreal Impact	12	242,877	34,373	16,660	20,240
12	Minnesota United FC	14	281,875	35,043	17,491	20,134
13	Sporting Kansas City	13	255,931	20,933	18,648	19,687
14	Real Salt Lake	12	223,106	20,348	16,434	18,592
15	New England Revolution	12	216,293	27,441	10,487	18,024
16	Houston Dynamo	12	211,027	22,115	14,148	17,586
17	Chicago Fire	12	206,201	21,891	11,244	17,183
18	Philadelphia Union	13	213,931	18,399	15,107	16,456
19	D.C. United	13	206,125	20,618	11,972	15,856
20	Colorado Rapids	13	200,649	17,648	13,496	15,435
21	FC Dallas	13	195,969	16,291	14,016	15,075
22	Columbus Crew SC	14	208,401	20,391	10,318	14,886
–	Total	276	5,929,566	55,297	10,318	21,484

Highest attendances

Regular season

Rank	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance	Date	Week	Stadium
1	Atlanta United FC	1–2	New York Red Bulls	55,297	March 5, 2017 (2017-03-05)	1	Bobby Dodd Stadium
2	San Jose Earthquakes	2–1	LA Galaxy	50,617	July 1, 2017 (2017-07-01)	18	Stanford Stadium
3	Seattle Sounders FC	1–0	Portland Timbers	47,362	May 27, 2017 (2017-05-27)	13	CenturyLink Field
4	Atlanta United FC	1–3	D.C. United	46,011	April 30, 2017 (2017-04-30)	9	Bobby Dodd Stadium
5	Atlanta United FC	4–0	Chicago Fire	45,922	March 18, 2017 (2017-03-18)	3	Bobby Dodd Stadium
6	Seattle Sounders FC	3–1	New York Red Bulls	45,600	March 19, 2017 (2017-03-19)	3	CenturyLink Field
7	Atlanta United FC	1–1	Orlando City SC	45,006	July 29, 2017 (2017-07-29)	21	Bobby Dodd Stadium
8	Atlanta United FC	4–2	San Jose Earthquakes	44,974	July 4, 2017 (2017-07-04)	19	Bobby Dodd Stadium
9	Atlanta United FC	1–0	Colorado Rapids	44,938	June 24, 2017 (2017-06-24)	17	Bobby Dodd Stadium
10	Atlanta United FC	3–1	Columbus Crew SC	44,922	June 17, 2017 (2017-06-17)	16	Bobby Dodd Stadium

Player statistics

See also: Major League Soccer#Player records

Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals 1 David Villa New York City FC 19 2 Nemanja Nikolić Chicago Fire 16 3 Diego Valeri Portland Timbers 15 4 Ignacio Piatti Montreal Impact 14 Erick Torres Houston Dynamo Bradley Wright-Phillips New York Red Bulls 7 David Accam Chicago Fire 13 Sebastian Giovinco Toronto FC Ola Kamara Columbus Crew SC 10 C. J. Sapong Philadelphia Union 12 Maximiliano Urruti FC Dallas As of August 23, 2017

Top assists Rank Player Club Assists 1 Víctor Vázquez Toronto FC 13 2 Michael Barrios FC Dallas 12 Sacha Kljestan New York Red Bulls 4 Yamil Asad Atlanta United FC 10 Joevin Jones Seattle Sounders FC Alex Houston Dynamo Lee Nguyen New England Revolution Albert Rusnák Real Salt Lake 9 Miguel Almirón Atlanta United FC 9 Nicolás Lodeiro Seattle Sounders FC Diego Valeri Portland Timbers As of August 23, 2017

Shutouts Rank Player Club Shutouts 1 Tim Melia Sporting Kansas City 10 2 Stefan Frei Seattle Sounders FC 9 3 David Bingham San Jose Earthquakes 7 Andre Blake Philadelphia Union Alex Bono Toronto FC Nick Rimando Real Salt Lake Luis Robles New York Red Bulls Zack Steffen Columbus Crew SC 9 Joe Bendik Orlando City SC 6 Cody Cropper New England Revolution Jesse González FC Dallas Matt Lampson Chicago Fire As of August 23, 2017

Hat-tricks Player For Against Result Date Josef Martínez Atlanta United Minnesota United 6–1 March 12, 2017 Erick Torres Houston Dynamo New York Red Bulls 4–1 April 1, 2017 C. J. Sapong Philadelphia Union New York Red Bulls 3–0 May 6, 2017 Justin Meram Columbus Crew SC Montreal Impact 3–2 May 13, 2017 Gerso Sporting Kansas City Seattle Sounders FC 3–0 May 17, 2017 Miguel Almirón Atlanta United Houston Dynamo 4–1 May 20, 2017 Roland Lamah FC Dallas Real Salt Lake 6–2 June 3, 2017 David Accam Chicago Fire Orlando City SC 4–0 June 24, 2017 David Villa New York City FC New York Red Bulls 3–2 August 6, 2017 As of August 6, 2017

Awards

Player of the Month

Month	Player	Club	Stats
March	Josef Martínez	Atlanta United	5G, 0A
April	Joe Bendik	Orlando City SC	2SO
May	Nemanja Nikolić	Chicago Fire	6G, 1A
June	David Villa	New York City FC	3G, 0A
July	Daniel Royer	New York Red Bulls	6G, 1A

Team of the Week

Team of the week
Week	Goalkeeper	Defender	Midfielder	Forward
1	Bendik (ORL)	Sjöberg (COL) Spector (ORL) Jungwirth (SJ) Lima (SJ)	Acosta (DAL) Valeri (POR) Godoy (SJ)	Accam (CHI) Adi (POR) Quioto (HOU)
2	Howard (COL)	Garza (ATL) Kappelhof (CHI) Hedges (DAL)	Piatti (MON) McCarty (CHI) Godoy (SJ) Almirón (ATL)	Torres (HOU) Martínez (ATL) Villa (NYC)
3	Steffen (CLB)	Garza (ATL) Crognale (CLB) Spector (ORL)	Valeri (POR) Bernier (MON) Guzmán (POR) Feilhaber (SKC)	Urruti (DAL) Martínez (ATL) Larin (ORL)
4	Van Oekel (RSL)	Tierney (NE) Long (NYR) Afful (CLB)	Fagúndez (NE) Nguyen (NE) Higuaín (CLB) Artur (CLB) Blanco (POR)	Agudelo (NE) Kamara (NE)
5	Hamid (DC)	Farfan (POR) Delamea (NE) Svensson (SEA)	Meram (CLB) Roldan (SEA) Laba (VAN) Schweinsteiger (CHI)	Techera (VAN) Torres (HOU) Ramirez (MIN)
6	González (DAL)	Boswell (DC) Opara (SKC) Delamea (NE)	Alessandrini (LA) McCarty (CHI) Espinoza (SKC) Rusnák (RSL) Barrios (DAL)	Movsisyan (RSL) Villalba (ATL)
7	Melia (SKC)	Matarrita (NYC) Spector (ORL) Næss (CLB) Opara (SKC)	Meram (CLB) Ilie (SKC) Johnson (ORL)	Montero (VAN) Nikolić (CHI) Solignac (CHI)
8	Bendik (ORL)	Long (NYR) Toia (ORL) Zavaleta (TOR)	Almirón (ATL) Bradley (TOR) Gruezo (DAL) Lodeiro (SEA)	Dempsey (SEA) Giovinco (TOR) Larin (ORL)
9	Hamid (DC)	Edwards (TOR) Jungwirth (SJ) Zusi (SKC)	Gerso (SKC) Jacobson (VAN) Acosta (DC) Harrison (NYC)	Agudelo (NE) Altidore (TOR) Urruti (DAL)
10	Blake (PHI)	Hedges (DAL) Jungwirth (SJ) Morrow (TOR)	Alex (HOU) Higuaín (CLB) Ibarra (MIN) Ring (NYC)	Sapong (PHI) Wallace (NYC) Wondolowski (SJ)
11	Johnson (NYC)	Onyewu (PHI) Van Damme (LA) Hairston (COL)	Fagúndez (NE) Meram (CLB) Alex (HOU) Medunjanin (PHI) Accam (CHI)	Ricketts (TOR) Nikolić (CHI)
12	Melia (SKC)	Vincent (CHI) Bernárdez (SJ) Parker (VAN)	Fagúndez (NE) Piatti (MON) Almirón (ATL) Medunjanin (PHI) Gerso (SKC)	Villa (NYC) Nikolić (CHI)
13	Hamid (DC)	Vincent (CHI) Calvo (MIN) Marshall (SEA) Ford (COL)	Almirón (ATL) Vázquez (TOR) Sunny (RSL) João Pedro (LA) Alessandrini (LA)	dos Santos (LA)
14	Bendik (ORL)	Rowe (NE) Opara (SKC) Waston (VAN) Spector (ORL)	Lamah (DAL) Higuaín (CLB) Alonso (SEA) Valeri (POR) Nguyen (NE)	Urruti (DAL)
15	Gleeson (POR)	Meira (CHI) Olum (POR) Abdul-Salaam (SKC)	Asprilla (POR) Valeri (POR) Schweinsteiger (CHI) Accam (CHI)	Adi (POR) Nikolić (CHI) Gerso (SKC)
16	Robles (NYR)	Harvey (VAN) Figueroa (DAL) Opara (SKC)	Plata (RSL) Alessandrini (LA) Bradley (TOR) Almirón (ATL)	Piatti (MON) Villa (NYC) Wright-Phillips (NYR)
17	Blake (PHI)	Sweat (NYC) Opara (SKC) Moor (TOR) Polster (CHI)	Accam (CHI) Herrera (NYC) Higuaín (CLB) Bedoya (PHI) Hoesen (SJ)	McBean (LA)
18	Howard (COL)	Onyewu (PHI) Parkhurst (ATL) Polster (CHI)	Johnson (ORL) Džemaili (MON) Ring (NYC) Hairston (COL)	Nikolić (CHI) Villa (NYC) Badji (COL)
19	McCarthy (PHI)	Hollingshead (DAL) Palmer-Brown (SKC) Nerwinski (VAN)	Fagúndez (NE) Rusnák (RSL) Barrios (DAL) Savarino (RSL)	Dempsey (SEA) Martínez (ATL) Giovinco (TOR)
20	Guzan (ATL)	Acosta (RSL) Brillant (NYC) Crognale (CLB)	Royer (NYR) Kljestan (NYR) Roldan (SEA) Alex (HOU)	Plata (RSL) Colmán (DAL) Villa (NYC)
21	Cropper (NE)	Toia (ORL) Moor (TOR) Parker (VAN)	Royer (NYR) Valeri (POR) Bradley (TOR) Molino (MIN)	O. Kamara (CLB) K. Kamara (NE) Giovinco (TOR)
22	McCarthy (PHI)	Doody (CHI) Opare (DC) DeLaGarza (HOU)	Lodeiro (SEA) Džemaili (MON) Ilsinho (PHI) Thompson (SJ)	Villa (NYC) Sapong (PHI) Dempsey (SEA)
23	Johnson (NYC)	Morrow (TOR) Marshall (SEA) Abubakar (CLB) Murillo (NYR)	Piette (MON) Džemaili (MON) Beckerman (COL) Delgado (TOR) Elis (HOU)	Villa (NYC)
24	Hamid (DC)	Besler (SKC) Marshall (SEA) Zusi (SKC)	Piatti (MON) Džemaili (MON) Delgado (TOR) Reyna (VAN) Valeri (POR)	Lewis (NYC) Jackson-Hamel (MON)

Player transfers

Allocation ranking

The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a player who is in the MLS allocation list. The MLS allocation list contains select U.S. National Team players and players transferred outside of MLS garnering a transfer fee of at least $500,000. The allocations will be ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2016 season, taking playoff performance into account. Two expansion teams will take the top spots.

Once the club uses its allocation ranking to acquire a player, it drops to the bottom of the list. A ranking can be traded provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club’s ranking. At all times each club is assigned one ranking. The rankings reset at the end of each MLS season.

Original Ranking	Current Ranking	Club	Date Allocation Used (Rank on that date)	Player Signed	Previous Club	Ref
4	1	Houston Dynamo
5	2	Columbus Crew SC
6	3	San Jose Earthquakes
2	4	Minnesota United FC
8	5	Orlando City SC
9	6	New England Revolution
10	7	Portland Timbers
11	8	Philadelphia Union
12	9	D.C. United
13	10	Real Salt Lake
14	11	Sporting Kansas City
15	12	LA Galaxy
16	13	New York City FC
17	14	New York Red Bulls
18	15	FC Dallas
19	16	Montreal Impact
20	17	Colorado Rapids
21	18	Toronto FC
22	19	Seattle Sounders FC
3	20	Chicago Fire	December 23, 2016 (2)	Juninho (loan)	Tijuana
1	21	Atlanta United FC	January 26, 2017 (1)	Brad Guzan	Middlesbrough
7	22	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	February 15, 2017 (1)	Fredy Montero (loan)	Tianjin TEDA

External links

• Official website

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