2005 MLS SuperDraft explained

2005 MLS SuperDraft
Sport:Soccer
Date:January 14, 2005
Time:12:00 p.m. (ET)
Location:Baltimore, Maryland
Network:Fox Sports World
First:Nikolas Besagno, Real Salt Lake
Fewest:D.C. United
MetroStars
(2 selections)
Most:Chicago Fire
San Jose Earthquakes
(7 selections)
Overall:48
Prev:2004
Next:2006

The 2005 MLS SuperDraft, held in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 14, 2005, was the sixth incarnation of the annual MLS SuperDraft. Expansion club Real Salt Lake had the first pick as the result of a coin toss (fellow newcomers C.D. Chivas USA got to go first in the expansion draft). RSL drafted Under-17 midfielder Nikolas Besagno with the first selection.

A collective bargaining agreement with the MLS Players' Union dictated that the draft be reduced from six to four rounds, although a supplemental draft was held to equip newly formed reserve teams and compensate for expansion.

Player selection

Key
Denotes a player contracted under the Generation Adidas 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

Round one

width=7%Pick # !width=30% MLS Team !width=25% Player !width=10% !Affiliation
1 Nikolas Besagno* M Generation Adidas
2 Brad Guzan*^† GK University of South Carolina
3 Chad Barrett* F UCLA
4San Jose EarthquakesM Indiana University
5Los Angeles GalaxyD SMU
6F.C. Dallas Drew Moor*^ D Indiana University
7 Hunter Freeman* D University of Virginia
8Los Angeles GalaxyD University of California
9 Michael Parkhurst*^§† D Wake Forest University
10Chicago FireD University of Notre Dame
11F Wake Forest University
12MetroStars Tim Ward* D Saint Louis University

Round one trades

Round two

width=7%Pick # !width=28% MLS Team !width=28% Player !width=13% Position !Affiliation
13 Jamie Watson* F University of North Carolina
14 Christian Jimenez* M University of South Florida
15Los Angeles GalaxyM UCLA
16Kansas City Wizards Ryan Pore* F University of Tulsa
17D University of Notre Dame
18Chicago Fire Will John* M Saint Louis University
19D.C. United Nick Van Sicklen M University of Wisconsin–Madison
20Columbus CrewM University of North Carolina
21D Wake Forest University
22Real Salt LakeGK Indiana University
23Columbus CrewM University of Maryland
24Kansas City Wizards Christopher Sawyer GK University of Notre Dame

Round two trades

Round three

width=7%Pick # !width=28% MLS Team !width=28% Player !width=13% Position !Affiliation
25MetroStarsM St. Johns University
26 Aaron Lopez D UCLA
27F.C. Dallas Winston Marshall D Wright State University
28 Chris Gomez GK Brown University
29Chicago FireF University of Dayton
30San Jose Earthquakes Victor Arbelaez M UNLV
31San Jose Earthquakes Orlando Ramirez F Fresno Pacific University
32San Jose EarthquakesD University of Washington
33New England RevolutionD UC Santa Barbara
34 Quavas Kirk* F Generation adidas
35Chicago FireD Virginia Commonwealth University
36Chicago FireM Coastal Carolina University

Round three trades

Round four

width=7%Pick # !width=28% MLS Team !width=28% Player !width=13% Position !Affiliation
37M Bradley University
38D University of Connecticut
39 Karim Deitz F Birmingham Southern College
40F Creighton University
41San Jose EarthquakesF University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
42San Jose Earthquakes James Twellman D Stanford University
43D Boston College
44F University of Michigan
45Colorado RapidsM Wake Forest University
46M Coastal Carolina University
47 John Minagawa-Webster M Michigan State University
48D.C. UnitedD University of North Carolina

Round four trades

Other draft day trades

Notable undrafted players

width=6%No. !width=23% Player !width=8% Pos. !Notes
1 Bobby Boswell^† D MLS Defender of the Year (2006); MLS Best XI (2006, 2014);
U.S. national team (2006–07)
2 ^†~ F Not picked in the SuperDraft; taken in the supplemental draft. He scored an MLS record 171 MLS goals.
3 Jeff Larentowicz ^D Not picked in the SuperDraft; taken in the supplemental draft. He is a member of the 400 games played club.

See also