The 2022 season was

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's 14th in

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(MLS), the top flight of American club soccer. It was the 39th season played by a professional team bearing the Sounders name. The team was under the management of

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in his sixth full MLS season as head coach of the Sounders. In early May, the Sounders won the

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title after defeating

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of the

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5–2 in aggregate scoring, becoming the first team in Major League Soccer to win the CONCACAF Champions League. The season ended with the team missing the

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for the first time in the league, snapping a 13-year streak that was the longest active streak in MLS history. The Sounders last missed the playoffs in 2006 as a second-division club in the

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. The team also failed to win in their final nine road matches from July through the end of the season.

Summary

Preseason

During the offseason, the Sounders hired former player

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as an assistant coach, joining

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, who had been signed in August 2021, and

Preki Predrag Radosavljević ( sr-Cyrl, Предраг Радосављевић; born June 24, 1963), better known by the nickname Preki (), is a Serbian-American former soccer player and coach. He is currently an assistant coach with Seattle Sounde ...

Roster

Coaching staff

Transfers

For transfers in, dates listed are when Sounders FC officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Sounders FC officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from Sounders FC roster.

In

Draft picks

Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in. Only trades involving draft picks and executed after the start of

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will be listed in the notes.

Out

Competitions

Preseason

The Seattle Sounders announced their pre-season schedule on January 22, 2022. Seattle competed against its rival, the Portland Timbers, in a friendly match in Tuscan as part of the Desert Showcase which was hosted by FC Tucson. The club also participated in the Coachella Valley Invitational with its host, LA Galaxy.

Major League Soccer

League tables

= Western Conference

= Overall

Results

Match results

MLS regular season

The MLS schedule was released on December 15, 2021. Several matches were later rescheduled to accommodate CONCACAF Champions League fixtures.

U.S. Open Cup

The Sounders entered the

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in the Round of 32 on May 11, 2022, by virtue of finishing second in the 2021 Western Conference. The draw occurred on April 22, 2022.

CONCACAF Champions League

The Sounders qualified to the round of 16 of the

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by virtue of their second-place finish in the 2021 Western Conference. The round of 16 draw occurred on December 15.

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics

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Top scorers

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Top assists

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Honors and awards

MLS Team of the Week

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CONCACAF Champions League Best XI

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References

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