2012 Seattle Sounders FC season explained

Club:	Seattle Sounders FC
Season:	2012
Stadium:	CenturyLink Field
Manager:	Sigi Schmid
Chrtitle:	General manager
Chairman:	Adrian Hanauer
League:	Major League Soccer
League Result:	Conference 3rd Overall: 7th
Cup1:	MLS Cup Playoffs
Cup1 Result:	Conference Final
Cup2:	U.S. Open Cup
Cup2 Result:	Runners-up
Cup3:	CONCACAF Champions League (2011–12)
Cup3 Result:	Quarterfinals
Cup4:	CONCACAF Champions League (2012–13)
Cup4 Result:	Semifinals
Cup5:	Cascadia Cup
Cup5 Result:	Runners-up (2–1–3)
Cup6:	Heritage Cup
Cup6 Result:	Runners-up (0–2–0)
League Topscorer:	Eddie Johnson (14 goals)
Season Topscorer:	Eddie Johnson (17 goals) Fredy Montero (17 goals)
Highest Attendance:	66,452 (Oct. 7 vs. Portland)^[1]
Lowest Attendance:	7,767 (Aug. 2 vs. Caledonia, CCL)
Average Attendance:	League: 43,144 Playoffs: 39,758 All: 42,751
Largest Win:	League: 4–0 vs. LA Galaxy (Aug. 5) 6–2 at Chivas USA (Aug. 25)
Largest Loss:	League: 1–4 at Montreal (Jun. 16) CCL: 1–6 at Santos Laguna (Mar. 14)
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Prevseason:	2011
Nextseason:	2013

The 2012 Seattle Sounders FC season was the club's fourth season in Major League Soccer, the United States' top-tier of professional soccer. For the Sounders FC organization, it was their fourth year of existence, and including all previous clubs, it was the 32nd season of a soccer team bearing the Sounders name.

Season overview

Pre-season

On November 23, 2011, James Riley was drafted away from Seattle by the Montreal Impact as part of the 2011 MLS Expansion Draft. He was immediately traded to Chivas USA with allocation money for Justin Braun and Gerson Mayen. The Sounders also traded Tyson Wahl to the Impact for allocation money.^[2] Other off-season transactions included the transfer of Erik Friberg to Malmö FF, the retirements of Kasey Keller, Terry Boss, and Taylor Graham, the release of Nate Jaqua and Pat Noonan, the acquisition of Marc Burch from D.C. United via the 2011 MLS Re-Entry Draft, and the signings of out of contract players Michael Gspurning and Adam Johansson.

In the 2012 MLS SuperDraft, the Sounders took Creighton University defender Andrew Duran in the first round and University of Alabama-Birmingham forward Babayele Sodade. A week later, in the 2012 MLS Supplemental Draft the Sounders took University of California-Santa Barbara defender Tim Pontius and former Leicester City F.C. forward Jason Banton in the second round, University of Washington forward Abdul Aman in the third round, and Cal Poly defender Wes Feighner in the fourth round. On the same day as the Supplemental Draft, the Sounders traded the rights to defender Leone Cruz, whom the Sounders acquired in the second round of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft but did not sign to a contract, to Real Salt Lake for UCLA defender Andy Rose, whom Real Salt Lake had drafted in the first round of the Supplemental Draft.

Club

Coaching staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Sigi Schmid
Assistant coaches	Brian Schmetzer, Ezra Hendrickson
Goalkeepers Coach	Tom Dutra
Fitness coach	David Tenney
Equipment manager	Nolan Meyer

Official sponsors

Kits

Type	Shirt	Shorts	Socks	First appearance / Info
Home	Rave Green	Blue	Rave Green
Home Alt.	Rave Green	Rave Green	Blue
Home Alt. 2	Rave Green	Rave Green	Rave Green
Away	Shale	Shale	Shale
Third	Cyan	Cyan	Cyan	→ International friendlies and non-MLS matches

Squad

Squad information

As of November 18, 2012.

No.	Name	Position(s)	Date of birth (age)	Signed from	Club appearances (MLS) [playoffs]	Club goals (MLS) [playoffs]
Goalkeepers
1	Michael Gspurning	GK	December 31, 2012	Skoda Xanthi F.C.	30 (21) [4]	0 (0) [0]
24	Marcus Hahnemann	GK	December 31, 2012	Everton	1 (0) [0]	0 (0) [0]
29	Josh Ford	GK	December 31, 2012	UConn	0 (0) [0]	0 (0) [0]
33	Andrew Weber	GK	December 31, 2012	San Jose	5 (3) [0]	0 (0) [0]
35	Bryan Meredith	GK	December 31, 2012	Monmouth	16 (12) [0]	0 (0) [0]
Defenders
4	Patrick Ianni	CB	December 31, 2012	Houston	98 (74) [3]	3 (3) [0]
5	Adam Johansson	RFB	December 31, 2012	IFK Göteborg	28 (21) [4]	0 (0) [0]
8	Marc Burch	LFB / CB	December 31, 2012	D.C. United	40 (29) [2]	0 (0) [0]
12	Leonardo González	LFB	December 31, 2012	Municipal Liberia	103 (71) [6]	1 (1) [0]
20	Zach Scott	CB / RFB	December 31, 2012	Seattle (USL)	74 (45) [4]	3 (1) [1]
30		CB	December 31, 2012	Creighton	0 (0) [0]	0 (0) [0]
31	Jeff Parke	CB	December 31, 2012	Vancouver	105 (78) [7]	1 (1) [0]
32	Daniel Steres	CB	December 31, 2012	San Diego State	0 (0) [0]	0 (0) [0]
34	Jhon Kennedy Hurtado	CB	December 31, 2012	Deportivo Cali	112 (81) [8]	1 (1) [0]
Midfielders
3	Brad Evans	CM / RM	December 31, 2012	Columbus	108 (88) [8]	17 (13) [0]
6	Osvaldo Alonso	DM	December 31, 2012	Charleston	151 (113) [10]	14 (6) [1]
10	Mauro Rosales (C)	AM / RM	December 31, 2012	River Plate	62 (53) [2]	8 (8) [0]
11	Steve Zakuani	LM	December 31, 2012	Akron	90 (72) [7]	19 (17) [1]
13	Christian Tiffert	CM	December 31, 2012	1. FC Kaiserslautern	18 (12) [4]	0 (0) [0]
14	Michael Tetteh	LM / LFB	December 31, 2012	UCSB	1 (0) [0]	0 (0) [0]
15	Mario Martínez (on loan from Real España)	AM / LM	December 31, 2012	Real España	10 (3) [4]	1 (0) [1]
22	Mike Seamon	CM	December 31, 2012	Villanova	21 (9) [0]	0 (0) [0]
23	Servando Carrasco	CM / RM	December 31, 2012	California	34 (21) [0]	0 (0) [0]
25	Andy Rose	CM	December 31, 2012	Salt Lake	33 (23) [2]	4 (1) [0]
27	Alex Caskey	CM / LM	December 31, 2012	Charleston	29 (20) [1]	3 (1) [0]
Forwards
7	Eddie Johnson	ST	December 31, 2012	Fulham	38 (28) [3]	17 (14) [1]
16	David Estrada	ST / RM	December 31, 2012	UCLA	37 (23) [3]	7 (5) [0]
17	Fredy Montero	ST	December 31, 2012	Deportivo Cali	160 (119) [10]	60 (47) [0]
19	Babayele Sodade	ST	December 31, 2012	UAB	0 (0) [0]	0 (0) [0]
21	Cordell Cato	ST / RM	December 31, 2012	Defence Force	15 (8) [0]	1 (0) [0]
26	Sammy Ochoa	ST	December 31, 2012	Estudiantes Tecos	27 (13) [3]	10 (3) [0]

Player movement

Transfers

In

Number	Position	Player	Transferred from	Notes	Date	Source
32	MF	Miguel Montaño	Montreal Impact	End loan deal	November 21, 2011
1	GK	Michael Gspurning	Skoda Xanthi	Free	December 7, 2011
8	DF	Marc Burch	D.C. United	Re-Entry Draft	December 12, 2011
5	DF	Adam Johansson	IFK Göteborg	Free	December 29, 2011	^[3]
28	MF	Christian Sivebæk	FC Midtjylland	Undisclosed	January 11	^[4]
21	FW	Cordell Cato	Defence Force F.C.	Undisclosed	January 18	^[5]
7	FW	Eddie Johnson	Puebla F.C.	Selected by Montreal Impact via allocation process, traded in exchange for Mike Fucito and Lamar Neagle	February 17	^[6]
30	DF	Andrew Duran	Creighton Bluejays Des Moines Menace	SuperDraft, joined after pre-season training camp	March 1	^[7]
19	FW	Babayele Sodade	UAB Blazers Michigan Bucks	SuperDraft, joined after pre-season training camp	March 1
33	GK	Andrew Weber	Unattached	Free, released by San Jose, joined after pre-season training camp	March 2	^[8]
25	MF	Andy Rose	Real Salt Lake	Supplemental Draft, traded in exchange for Leone Cruz, joined after pre-season training camp	March 13
27	MF	Alex Caskey	Charleston Battery	Free, selected by Seattle in the 2011 SuperDraft, joined after pre-season training camp	March 13
32	DF	Daniel Steres	San Diego State Aztecs	Supplemental Draft, selected by Chivas USA, played for Sounders Reserses (March – April), selected in Waiver Draft (June 6)	June 22
13	MF	Christian Tiffert	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Undisclosed	July 27	^[9]
24	GK	Marcus Hahnemann	Unattached	Free, selected via allocation process, Seattle acquired the No. 1 selection from Toronto FC in exchange for a conditional draft pick selection	September 14	^[10]

Loan in

On trial

Out

Number	Position	Player	Transferred to	Notes	Date	Source
18	GK	Kasey Keller	Unattached	Retired	November 2, 2011
7	DF	James Riley	Montreal Impact	Expansion Draft	November 23, 2011
5	DF	Tyson Wahl	Montreal Impact	Traded in exchange for allocation money	November 23, 2011
28	GK	Terry Boss	Unattached	Retired	December 2, 2011
26	DF	Taylor Graham	Unattached	Retired	December 2, 2011
32	MF	Miguel Montaño	Montreal Impact	Free	December 7, 2011
21	FW	Nate Jaqua	New England Revolution	Re-Entry Draft	December 12, 2011
25	FW	Pat Noonan	Los Angeles Galaxy	Re-Entry Draft
8	MF	Erik Friberg	Malmö FF	Undisclosed
align="left"	--	DF	Leone Cruz	Real Salt Lake	Traded in exchange for Andy Rose	January 17
2	FW	Mike Fucito	Montreal Impact	Traded in exchange for Eddie Johnson	February 17
27	MF	Lamar Neagle	Montreal Impact	Traded in exchange for Eddie Johnson	February 17
13	FW	O'Brian White	Unattached	Released, Seattle Buys out his contract	March 22
align="left"	--	MF	Amadou Sanyang	Charleston Battery	Released, in Chicago Fire preseason camp	April 6
28	MF	Christian Sivebæk	Vejle Kolding	Waived by mutual agreement	June 22
24	FW	Roger Levesque	Unattached	Retired	July 18
15	MF	Álvaro Fernández	Chicago Fire	Traded in exchange for allocation money	July 27

Loan out

Date from	Date to	Player	Position	Destination club	Fee/notes	Ref
June 15	August 17	Andrew Duran	DF	Atlanta Silverbacks	Returned after ACL injury
August 24	October 3	Michael Tetteh	MF	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	End of season loan deal

On trial

Number	Position	Player	Transferred to	Notes	Date	Source

No longer on trial

Number	Position	Player	Transferred to	Notes	Date	Source
align="left"	--	GK	Tyrel Lacey	Unattached	Out of contract, First phase of camp	January 30
align="left"	--	MF			First phase of camp	January 30	^[11]
40	DF	Ever Alvarado	Real España	Left Back, Second phase of camp	February 10	^[12]
38	MF	Andrew Vanzie	Portmore United F.C.	Four week trial, Second phase of camp	February 10
align="left"	--	GK	Chris Blais	Unattached	SuperDraft, Cut by San Jose, Third phase of camp	February 18	^[13]
45	DF	Harlinton Gutiérrez	Real España	Centre Back, Second & Third phase of camp	February 26
align="left"	--	GK	Brian Rowe	UCLA Bruins	Played for Sounders Reserses (April 16)	April 16
align="left"	--	GK	Steve Spangler	Oregon State Beavers	Played for Sounders Reserves (April 23)	June 1
align="left"	--	MF	Sean Morris	Portland Timbers U23's	2011 Supplemental Draft, Played for Sounders Reserves (March–April)	June 1
align="left"	--	MF	Jonathan Prieto	Unattached	First phase of camp, Played for Sounders Reserves (April)	June 1
align="left"	--	MF	Armando Ochoa	--	Played for Sounders Reserves (April)	June 1
align="left"	--	DF	Michael Gallagher	Seattle Sounders FC U18	Played for Sounders Reserves (June 1)	August 12
align="left"	--	MF	Aaron Kovar	Seattle Sounders FC U18	Played for Sounders Reserves (June 1)	August 12
align="left"	--	DF	Junior Bergueos	--	Played for Sounders Reserves (August 12)	August 19
align="left"	--	MF	Angel Ayala	Cerritos College	Played for Sounders Reserves (August 12)	August 19
align="left"	--	DF	Kyle Bjornethun	Seattle Sounders FC U18	Played for Sounders Reserves (August)	September 9
align="left"	--	MF	Moisés Orozco	Tigres de la UANL	Played for Sounders Reserves (August 19)	September 9
align="left"	--	FW	Dawyne Smith	Pittsburgh Riverhounds	Supplemental Draft, selected by New England Revolution, selected in Waiver Draft (June 6), played for Sounders Reserves (August 19)	September 9
40	DF	George Ogăraru	Unattached	Played for Sounders Reserves (September 9)	September 16
41	MF	Seth C'deBaca	Pittsburgh Riverhounds	Played for Sounders Reserves (September 9)	September 16
43	FW	Eiður Guðjohnsen	Cercle Brugge	Played for Sounders Reserves (September 9)	September 16	^[14]
align="left"	--	FW	Darwin Jones	Seattle Sounders FC U-23 Washington Huskies	First phase of camp, at practice in September	September 16
align="left"	--	DF	Jacob Beck	Seattle Sounders FC U18	Played for Sounders Reserves (June & September)	September 23
align="left"	--	FW	Isidro Prado-Huerta	Seattle Sounders FC U18	Played for Sounders Reserves (August & September)	September 23
align="left"	--	DF	Jalen Markey	Seattle Sounders FC U18	Played for Sounders Reserves (September 23)	September 26
align="left"	--	DF	Kenny Mueller	Unattached	Played for Sounders Reserves (September 23)	September 26
align="left"	--	MF	Duncan McCormick	Seattle Sounders FC U18	Played for Sounders Reserves (September)	September 26
align="left"	--	MF	Henry Wingo	Seattle Sounders FC U18	Played for Sounders Reserves (September 23)	September 26
align="left"	--	FW	Dominique Dismuke	Seattle Sounders FC U18 Washington Huskies	Played for Sounders Reserves (June – September)	September 26
align="left"	--	FW	Jordan Morris	Seattle Sounders FC U18 Eastside FC	Played for Sounders Reserves (August & September)	September 26

Unsigned draft picks

Number	Position	Player	Transferred from	Transferred to	Notes	Date (In)	Date (Out)	Source
align="left"	--	FW	Abdul Aman	Washington Huskies	North Sound SeaWolves Washington Huskies	Supplemental Draft, First phase of camp	January 17	January 30
42	DF	Tim Pontius	UC Santa Barbara	Ventura County Fusion	Supplemental Draft, First & Second phase of camp	January 17	February 10
44	DF	Wes Feighner	Cal Poly Orange County Blue Star	Unattached	Supplemental Draft, First & Second phase of camp	January 17	February 10
39	MF	Jason Banton	Leicester City	Crystal Palace	Supplemental Draft, First & Second phase of camp	January 17	February 10

Match results

Pre-season

Seattle Sounders FC Community Shield

See main article: Seattle Sounders FC Community Shield.

CONCACAF Champions League

2011–12 edition

See main article: 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League.

2012–13 edition

See main article: 2012–13 CONCACAF Champions League.

Group 4

Team
Seattle Sounders FC	4	4	0	0	12	5	+7	12
Marathón	4	1	1	2	5	7	−2	4
Caledonia AIA	4	0	1	3	3	8	−5	1

	CAL	MAR	SEA
Caledonia AIA	–	0–0	1–3
Marathón	2–1	–	2–3
Seattle Sounders FC	3–1	3–1	–

Match results

MLS regular season

Table

Western Conference

Overall

Match results

MLS Cup Playoffs

U.S. Open Cup

See main article: 2012 U.S. Open Cup.

World Football Challenge

See main article: 2012 World Football Challenge.

Cascadia Cup

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

|-|colspan="14"|Players who left the club during the season: (Statistics shown are the appearances made and goals scored while at Seattle Sounders)

Top scorers

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total goals are equal.

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Name

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Major League Soccer

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Playoffs

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Champions League

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U.S. Open Cup

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Total

Álvaro Fernández

TOTALS

Italic: denotes no longer with club.

Clean sheets

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total clean sheets are equal.

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Major League Soccer

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Playoffs

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Champions League

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U.S. Open Cup

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Total

Josh Ford

TOTALS

Italic: denotes no longer with club.

Disciplinary record

Includes all competitive matches. The list is sorted by shirt number when total cards are equal.

			Name
			Name	Major League Soccer			Playoffs			Champions League			U.S. Open Cup			Total
1	6	MF	Osvaldo Alonso	8	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	14	1	0
2	20	DF	Zach Scott	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	8	1	0
3	17	FW	Fredy Montero	5	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	1
4	7	FW	Eddie Johnson	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0
5	8	DF	Marc Burch	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	5	0	0
	12	DF	Leonardo González	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	0
	25	MF	Andy Rose	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	0
	34	DF	Jhon Kennedy Hurtado	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1
9	4	DF	Patrick Ianni	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	3	1	0
	13	MF	Christian Tiffert	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
	31	DF	Jeff Parke	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
12	3	MF	Brad Evans	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0
13	10	MF	Mauro Rosales	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
	15	MF	Álvaro Fernández	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
	16	MF	David Estrada	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
	23	MF	Servando Carrasco	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
17	1	GK	Michael Gspurning	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	5	DF	Adam Johansson	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	15	MF	Mario Martínez	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	26	FW	Sammy Ochoa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	0
	28	MF	Christian Sivebæk	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
			TOTALS	53	1	3	7	1	0	10	0	0	11	1	0	81	3	3

Notes and References

Web site: Seattle Sounders FC Performance Stats – 2012–13 . . October 29, 2023.
http://ssfc-rumors.blogspot.com/2011/11/defenders-james-riley-selected-and.html Defenders James Riley selected and Tyson Wahl traded by the Montreal Impact
Web site: Sounders FC signs Danish midfielder Sivebæk. February 29, 2012. January 26, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120126045756/http://www.soundersfc.com/News/Articles/2011/12-December/Sounders-sign-Adam-Johanssen.aspx. dead.
Web site: Sounders FC signs Johansson. February 29, 2012. January 13, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120113195816/http://www.soundersfc.com/News/Articles/2012/01-January/Sounders-FC-signs-Christian-Sivebaek.aspx. dead.
Web site: Sounders signs Trinidad & Tobago U20 Forward. February 29, 2012. February 17, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120217224524/http://www.soundersfc.com/News/Articles/2012/01-January/Sounders-sign-Cordell-Cato.aspx. dead.
Web site: Sounders FC Trades for Eddie Johnson. February 29, 2012.
Web site: Sounders sign both MLS SuperDraft picks: Andrew Duran and Babayele Sodade . Joshua Mayers . Seattle Times . March 2, 2012.
Web site: Sounders FC Signs Goalkeeper Andrew Weber. March 3, 2012. March 5, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120305040434/http://www.soundersfc.com/News/Articles/2012/03-March/Weber-Signs.aspx. dead.
Web site: Sounders FC signs Tiffert . July 27, 2012.
Web site: Sounders FC Acquires Marcus Hahnemann . September 14, 2012.
Web site: Blues Sign Another Talented South Korean in Park . https://archive.today/20120709131136/http://labluesprosoccer.com/blues-take-on-mexico-u-20/ . dead . July 9, 2012 . Los Angeles Blues . May 8, 2012 .
Web site: Mayers. Joshua. Sounders FC roster getting close to season shape. Seattle Times. February 11, 2012.
Web site: Mayers. Joshua. Roster update after Eddie Johnson trade. Seattle Times. February 19, 2012.
Web site: Gudjohnsen in the mix . September 5, 2012.