The following is a list of drafts held by Women's Professional Soccer, with a brief description of each.
All twenty-one players in the USWNT player pool told the league which of the seven initial teams they would like to play for, with the teams likewise telling the league which players they wanted. WPS announced which players would go to which teams on September 16.
With pick order based on the strength of the USWNT allocation, teams chose which foreign players they wanted negotiating rights for on September 24. Four rounds.
On October 6, the teams had four rounds of drafting other top-level domestic players.
Held at the NSCAA convention in St. Louis on January 16, seventy of the top players not previously selected - most of them from college, but some with previous USWNT or WUSA experience - were picked by the WPS coaches based on the players' performance at one of the two WPS combines held in December.
The Atlanta Beat and Philadelphia Independence pick nine players each from the seven existing WPS teams on September 15.
On September 22, the Atlanta Beat and Philadelphia Independence select up to five non-American players each. The existing seven WPS teams were not included in this draft.
Held January 15 at the annual NSCAA convention, this year in Philadelphia; all nine teams drafted players to fill out their rosters. The two expansion teams received extra picks during the first round.
Held on February 4 to disperse the players of the Los Angeles Sol to the eight remaining WPS teams after the Sol folded in the last week of January.
Held January 14 at the annual NSCAA convention, this year in Baltimore; all six teams drafted players to fill out their rosters. The expansion Western New York Flash received an extra first round pick.
Held January 13 at the annual NSCAA convention, this year in Kansas City, Missouri. All five teams drafted players to fill out their rosters in twenty-three picks over four rounds.