The 2002
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada ...
SuperDraft was held on February 10, 2002 in
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
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.
One month earlier, MLS had contracted two clubs:
Tampa Bay Mutiny
Tampa Bay Mutiny was a professional soccer team based in Tampa, Florida. They were a charter member of Major League Soccer (MLS) and played from 1996 to 2001. They played their home games at Tampa Stadium and then at Raymond James Stadium.
The ...
and
Miami Fusion
The Miami Fusion was a professional soccer team based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They played in Major League Soccer (MLS) for four seasons, from 1998 to 2001. Announced in 1997 as one of the league's first two expansion teams, their best seas ...
. In conjunction with the contraction, the league conducted both an allocation draft and a dispersal draft in which the top 2002 SuperDraft picks of Tampa Bay and Miami, as well as players from those clubs, were made available to remaining MLS clubs.
Allocation draft
MLS distributed the players of the Miami Fusion and the Tampa Bay Mutiny to the rest of the league via an allocation draft that took place on January 11, 2002, where teams with excess
allocations were allowed to select from their players; the participants and the selection order for the draft were announced three days before the draft was conducted.
Trades
Dispersal draft
Players who were not selected in the allocation draft were automatically assigned to the dispersal draft, which was held hours after the allocation draft occurred.
Round 1
Trades
Round 2
Round 3
SuperDraft
Any player whose name is marked with an * was contracted under the
Project-40
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program.
Round 1
Trades
Round 2
Trades
Round 3
Trades
Round 4
Trades
Round 5
Trades
Round 6
Trades
References
{{2002 MLS season by team
Major League Soccer drafts
Mls Superdraft, 2002
Mls superdraft
The MLS SuperDraft is an annual college draft for teams of Major League Soccer in the United States and Canada. It takes place in January and is used by teams to select players who have graduated from college or otherwise been signed by the le ...