| Club: | Houston Dynamo |
| Season: | 2015 |
| League: | MLS |
| Chrtitle: | Owner |
| Chairman: | Philip Anschutz |
| Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
| Manager: | Owen Coyle |
| Stadium: | BBVA Compass Stadium |
| League Result: | Conference: 8th Overall: 15th |
| Cup1: | MLS Cup Playoffs |
| Cup1 Result: | Did not qualify |
| Cup2: | U.S. Open Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Quarterfinals |
| Cup3: | Texas Derby |
| Cup3 Result: | Runners-Up |
| Cup4: | Carolina Challenge Cup |
| Cup4 Result: | Winners |
| Highest Attendance: | 22,651 (July 3 vs. Chicago) |
| Lowest Attendance: | League: 16,018 (May 5 vs. San Jose) All: 2,479 (June 30 vs. Colorado) |
| Average Attendance: | Regular season: Playoffs: - All: |
| Top Scorer: | Will Bruin (11) |
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| Prevseason: | 2014 |
| Nextseason: | 2016 |
The 2015 Houston Dynamo season was the club's tenth season of existence, and their first under new head coach Owen Coyle.
See main article: 2015 Houston Dynamo season.
As of August 17, 2015.[1]
| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred from | Date | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | MF |  Memo Rodriguez | Houston Dynamo Youth | December 4, 2014 | [2] | |
| 31 | GK | Joe Willis | D.C. United | December 8, 2014 | [3] | |
| DF |  Samuel Inkoom | D.C. United | December 8, 2014 | |||
| 17 | FW | Chandler Hoffman | LA Galaxy | December 18, 2014 | [4] | |
| 6 | MF | Nathan Sturgis | Chivas USA | December 18, 2014 | ||
| 9 | FW |  Erick Torres | C.D. Guadalajara | December 23, 2014 | [5] | |
| 5 | DF |  Raúl Rodríguez | RCD Espanyol | January 9, 2015 | [6] | |
| 21 | MF | Zach Steinberger | Butler Bulldogs | January 15, 2015 | [7] | |
| 3 | MF | Rob Lovejoy | North Carolina Tar Heels | January 15, 2015 | [8] | |
| 22 | DF | Taylor Hunter | Denver Pioneers | January 20, 2015 | [9] | |
| 14 | MF |  Alex | Chicago Fire | April 13, 2015 | ||
| 20 | MF |  Rasheed Olabiyi | Enyimba | July 9, 2015 | [10] | |
| 22 | DF | Sheanon Williams | Philadelphia Union | July 23, 2015 | [11] | |
| MF | Christian Lucatero | Houston Dynamo Youth | August 18, 2015 | [12] |
| Squad # | Position | Player | Transferred to | Date | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DF | Eric Brunner | Retired | [13] | |||
| DF | Anthony Arena | Pittsburgh Riverhounds | November 25, 2014 | |||
| FW |  Omar Cummings | San Antonio Scorpions | November 25, 2014 | |||
| FW | Brian Ownby | Richmond Kickers | November 25, 2014 | |||
| MF | Bryan Salazar | November 25, 2014 | ||||
| MF | Servando Carrasco | Sporting Kansas City | November 25, 2014 | |||
| FW | Andrew Driver | D.C. United | December 8, 2014 | |||
| GK | Tally Hall | Orlando City SC | December 8, 2014 | [14] | ||
| FW | Mark Sherrod | Orlando City SC | December 10, 2014 | |||
| FW | Jason Johnson | Chicago Fire | April 13, 2015 | [15] | ||
| DF | Corey Ashe | Orlando City SC | July 15, 2015 | [16] |
| Squad # | Position | Player | Loaned to | Date | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | FW | Erick Torres | C.D. Guadalajara | December 23, 2014 | ||
| 18 | MF | Memo Rodriguez | Charleston Battery | March 20, 2015 | [18] | |
| 22 | DF | Taylor Hunter | Colorado Springs Switchbacks | April 11, 2015 | [19] |
See main article: 2015 Major League Soccer season.
Houston will enter the 2015 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of Major League Soccer in the fourth round.[20]
| Goals | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | |||
| 1 | Will Bruin | 11 | |
| 2 | Ricardo Clark | 8 | |
| 3 | Giles Barnes | 7 | |
| 4 | Brad Davis | 4 | |
| 5 | Boniek Garcia | 3 | |
| Assists | ||
|---|---|---|
| Name | ||
| 1 | Brad Davis | 10 |
| 2 | Boniek Garcia | 5 |
| 3 | Will Bruin | 4 |
| 4 | Alexander Lopez | 3 |
| Giles Barnes | ||
| Appearances (starts) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | |||
| 1 | Will Bruin | 33 (28) | |
| 2 | David Horst | 32 (28) | |
| 3 | Ricardo Clark | 30 (30) | |
| 4 | Brad Davis | 30 (29) | |
| 5 | Luis Garido | 29 (21) | |
For the 2015 season, Root Sports Southwest serves as the English broadcaster of all 22 non-national Major League Soccer matches. The one-year deal with ROOT SPORTS' regional network includes a 30-minute pregame and postgame show for each game. Games and weekly programing had aired the previous two seasons on Comcast SportsNet Houston, which was purchased out of bankruptcy court by DirecTV and AT&T in October 2014 and rebranded as Root Sports Southwest.[21]
Root Sports initially cancelled the three-year deal signed in 2013[22] with CSN Houston before agreeing on this new deal with the Dynamo. In comparison, the Dynamo lose airtime by way of a weekly show and daily coverage on CSN's daily newscast but gained a higher distribution to homes in Houston that weren't subscribed to Comcast and therefore did not have access to Comcast's exclusive sports network.
On the Spanish side, Telemundo Houston returns as the Dynamo's broadcast partner for the second consecutive season.[23] The Telemundo-owned Houston station signed up for 10 Dynamo games in 2015, a three-game increase from the 2014 season. Five of those matches will air live on TeleXitos, available over-the-air on KTMD's secondary channel 47.2, and select games on TeleXitos include a 30-minute pregame and a 30-minute postgame show. Games on Telemundo, channel 47.1, air deferred at 11 p.m. on the night of the match due to scheduling conflicts with national programming (of which includes Telemundo's home games telecast of Liga MX sides León and Pachuca).
The remaining 12 games of the regular-season will be carried by MLS' national TV partners, including 8 on the Univision family of networks, which shows the Dynamo's appeal to a national Hispanic audience due to its Honduran trio (Boniek, Garrido and López) and the addition of Mexican international Erick Torres.