Update: MLS Allocation Order

With all the talk of Kenny Cooper coming back to MLS to play for Portland, a couple readers asked if I would post the current allocation order. Now some folks will wonder why Portland can get Cooper if he does return, its simple, FC Dallas made an offer before he left for Germany a couple years ago so they no longer hold his player rights here in MLS. So he’s a free man so to speak.

Below is the current order which will likely get updated one or twice more this winter. Just remember its its a worst to first kind of order with expansion clubs getting first crack when they join. Vancouver used up their number one slot when they signed Jay DeMerit.

1. Portland Timbers
2. D.C. United
3. Chivas USA
4. Philadelphia Union
5. New England Revolution
6. Houston Dynamo
7. Toronto FC
8. Chicago Fire
9. Sporting Kansas City
10. Seattle Sounders FC
11. Columbus Crew
12. New York Red Bulls
13. Real Salt Lake
14. San Jose Earthquakes
15. LA Galaxy
16. FC Dallas
17. Colorado Rapids
18. Vancouver Whitecaps (Jay DeMerit)