| 2004 MLS SuperDraft | |
| Sport: | Soccer |
| Date: | January 16, 2004 |
| Time: | 10:00 am (EST) |
| Location: | Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Network: | Fox Sports World |
| First: | Freddy Adu, D.C. United |
| Fewest: | D.C. United New England Revolution (4 selections) |
| Most: | Chicago Fire (10 selections) |
| Overall: | 60 |
| Prev: | 2003 |
| Next: | 2005 |
The 2004 MLS SuperDraft, held in Charlotte, North Carolina on January 16, 2004, was the fifth incarnation of the annual Major League Soccer SuperDraft. The draft was most notable at the time for the selection of one of the youngest athletes in American sporting history, Freddy Adu, with the first pick by D.C. United after a trade from the Dallas Burn. The trade was initiated by the league after Adu had signed in November 2003 with the intent of playing for D.C., his local team.[1] [2]
The draft also included Clint Dempsey (1st round), who later won MLS Rookie of the Year,[3] and teenager Michael Bradley (4th round), the son of MetroStars coach Bob Bradley.[4] Both players went on to earn over 120 caps with the U.S. national team and play overseas for European teams before returning to MLS.
| Denotes a player contracted under the Project-40 program | |
| ^ | Denotes player who has been selected to an MLS All-Star Game |
| § | Denotes a player who won the MLS Rookie of the Year |
| † | Denotes player who has been selected for an MLS Best XI team |
| ~ | Denotes a player who won the MLS MVP |
| width=7% | Pick # ! | width=30% | MLS Team ! | width=25% | Player ! | width=10% | Position ! | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Freddy Adu*^ | F | Project-40 | |||||
| 2 | Chad Marshall*† | D | Stanford University | |||||
| 3 | F | Coastal Carolina University | ||||||
| 4 | F | UCLA | ||||||
| 5 | Ryan Cochrane* | D | Santa Clara University | |||||
| 6 | Dallas Burn | M | SMU | |||||
| 7 | Dallas Burn | Clarence Goodson* | D | University of Maryland | ||||
| 8 | Clint Dempsey*^§† | M | Furman University | |||||
| 9 | M | University of Maryland | ||||||
| 10 | Steve Cronin* | GK | Santa Clara University |
| width=7% | Pick # ! | width=30% | MLS Team ! | width=25% | Player ! | width=10% | Position ! | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | D | UCLA | ||||||
| 12 | D | St. John's University | ||||||
| 13 | Josh Gardner* | M | University of Cincinnati | |||||
| 14 | Ned Grabavoy* | M | Indiana University | |||||
| 15 | M | UCLA | ||||||
| 16 | D | University of Louisville | ||||||
| 17 | GK | Wake Forest University | ||||||
| 18 | D | University of Maryland | ||||||
| 19 | GK | SMS (now Missouri State) | ||||||
| 20 | M | University of Maryland |
| width=7% | Pick # ! | width=30% | MLS Team ! | width=25% | Player ! | width=10% | Position ! | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | GK | UCLA | ||||||
| 22 | M | UC Santa Barbara | ||||||
| 23 | F | Wake Forest University | ||||||
| 24 | M | Harvard University | ||||||
| 25 | D | University of Michigan | ||||||
| 26 | F | So. Connecticut State University | ||||||
| 27 | M | Stanford University | ||||||
| 28 | M | Williams College | ||||||
| 29 | M | UCLA | ||||||
| 30 | Lindon Pecorelli | M | University of Connecticut |
| width=7% | Pick # ! | width=30% | MLS Team ! | width=25% | Player ! | width=10% | Position ! | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | D | Creighton University | ||||||
| 32 | F | SMS (now Missouri State) | ||||||
| 33 | M | UC Santa Barbara | ||||||
| 34 | Josh Gros^ | M | Rutgers University | |||||
| 35 | D | University of Notre Dame | ||||||
| 36 | Michael Bradley*^ | M | Project-40 | |||||
| 37 | Jay Alberts | M | Yale University | |||||
| 38 | D | University of Dayton | ||||||
| 39 | Phil Hucles | D | The College of William & Mary | |||||
| 40 | Marin Pusek | M | UAB |
| width=7% | Pick # ! | width=30% | MLS Team ! | width=25% | Player ! | width=10% | Position ! | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | Adom Crew | M | Brown University | |||||
| 42 | M | Seton Hall University | ||||||
| 43 | Jason Perry | D | Oakland University | |||||
| 44 | Kevin Hudson | M | SMU | |||||
| 45 | D | Adelphi University | ||||||
| 46 | Johnny David | M | Fairleigh Dickinson University | |||||
| 47 | F | University of Notre Dame | ||||||
| 48 | Ryan Barber | D | UMKC | |||||
| 49 | Ian Pilarski | M | Cornell University | |||||
| 50 | M | UW-Milwaukee |
| width=7% | Pick # ! | width=30% | MLS Team ! | width=25% | Player ! | width=10% | Position ! | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | M | Seton Hall University | ||||||
| 52 | Matthew Haefner | GK | University of Pennsylvania | |||||
| 53 | F | Oregon State University | ||||||
| 54 | D | Cal State Northridge | ||||||
| 55 | M | Florida International University | ||||||
| 56 | F | Franklin Pierce College | ||||||
| 57 | D | Syracuse University | ||||||
| 58 | M | Boston University | ||||||
| 59 | D | UAB | ||||||
| 60 | MetroStars | D | Drexel University |