There are 12 different ways for your team to sign a new player, but one of the most frequently used is via trade – below is a list of all trades for the 2020 MLS season.
| Transaction date: 9/19/2020 | |
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| MIN | MIN receive: Kei Kamara (Forward) |
| COL | COL receive: $150,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money (GAM) and a second-round pick in the 2022 MLS SuperDraft |
| Transaction date: 9/18/2020 | |
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| MIN | MIN receive: Adrian Zendejas (Goalkeeper) |
| NSH | NSH receive: Fourth-round pick in 2021 SuperDraft. Nashville could receive $100,000 in GAM if Zendejas meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 9/8/2020 | |
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| MTL | MTL receive: 2020 and 2021 international roster spot |
| DC | DC receive: $75,000 in 2020 General Allocation Money, $150,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 9/8/2020 | |
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| NE | NE receive: Lee Nguyen (Midfielder) |
| MIA | MIA receive: Fourth-round pick in 2021 SuperDraft. Miami could receive $50,000 in GAM if Nguyen meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 8/17/2020 | |
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| CLB | CLB receive: Fatai Alashe (Midfielder) |
| CIN | CIN receive: Second-round pick in 2021 SuperDraft. FC Cincy could receive $50,000 in GAM if Alashe meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 8/17/2020 | |
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| HOU | HOU receive: Rights to Ariel Lassiter (Forward) |
| LA | LA receive: $50,000 in General Allocation Money. The LA Galaxy could receive up to an additional $100,000 in GAM if Lassiter meets certain performance-based metrics with the Dynamo. |
| Transaction date: 8/17/2020 | |
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| HOU | HOU receive: Wilfried Zahibo (Midfielder), 2020 international roster slot |
| NE | NE receive: Tommy McNamara (Midfielder), $150,000 in 2020 General Allocation Money, $25,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 8/17/2020 | |
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| NE | NE receive: Kekuta Manneh (Forward) |
| CIN | CIN receive: 2020 international roster spot |
| Transaction date: 8/14/2020 | |
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| CLB | CLB receive: Emanuel Boateng (Midfielder) |
| DC | DC receive: Axel Sjoberg (Defender) |
| Transaction date: 8/14/2020 | |
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| CLB | CLB receive: Grant Lillard (Defender) |
| MIA | MIA receive: Third-round pick in 2021 SuperDraft |
| Transaction date: 8/13/2020 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: Alex Muyl (Midfielder) |
| RBNY | RBNY receive: Nashville’s 2020 and 2021 international picks and an additional $50,000 in GAM in 2021, if Muyl meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 8/12/2020 | |
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| LAFC | LAFC receive: No. 1 spot in the MLS Waiver Order |
| VAN | VAN receive: $50,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 7/8/2020 | |
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| NE | NE receive: Right of first refusal to Matt Polster (Midfielder) |
| CHI | CHI receive: $100,000 in General Allocation Money. The Fire will receive up to $100,000 in future GAM if Polster meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 7/1/2020 | |
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| ATL | ATL receive: Discovery rights to Jurgen Damm (Midfielder) |
| HOU | HOU receive: $50,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 3/4/2020 | |
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| COL | COL receive: Homegrown rights to Will Vint (Midfielder) |
| ATL | ATL receive: Fourth-round pick in 2022 SuperDraft |
| Transaction date: 3/3/2020 | |
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| MTL | MTL receive: Discovery rights to Victor Wanyama (Midfielder) |
| NE | NE receive: $150,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 2/26/2020 | |
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| LAFC | LAFC receive: No. 1 spot in MLS Allocation Ranking |
| NSH | NSH receive: $350,000 in combined 2020 and 2021 General Allocation Money, second-round pick in 2022 SuperDraft, No. 24 spot in MLS Allocation Ranking |
| Transaction date: 2/24/2020 | |
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| SKC | SKC receive: Homegrown rights to John Pulskamp (Goalkeeper) |
| LA | LA receive: $50,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 2/22/2020 | |
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| VAN | VAN receive: International roster spot |
| POR | POR receive: $165,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 2/19/2020 | |
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| CLB | CLB receive: Andrew Tarbell (Goalkeeper) |
| SJ | SJ receive: $75,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 2/12/2020 | |
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| MIN | MIN receive: Rights to Aaron Schoenfeld (Forward) |
| CLB | CLB receive: Second-round pick in 2021 SuperDraft, additional considerations if Schoenfeld meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 2/11/2020 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: Walker Zimmerman (Defender) |
| LAFC | LAFC receive: $600,000 in General Allocation Money, $350,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money, 2020 international roster spot. LAFC will receive an additional $150,000 in GAM in both 2020 and 2021, if Walker meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 2/11/2020 | |
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| MTL | MTL receive: International roster spot |
| POR | POR receive: $150,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 2/11/2020 | |
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| MIN | MIN receive: Raheem Edwards (Midfielder) |
| CHI | CHI receive: Wyatt Omsberg (Defender) |
| Transaction date: 1/31/2020 | |
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| MIA | MIA receive: Wil Trapp (Midfielder) |
| CLB | CLB receive: $100,000 in General Allocation Money, international roster spot. Crew SC would receive an additional $200,000 in General Allocation Money in 2021 should additional conditions be met. Additionally, in the event Inter Miami CF permanently transfers Trapp to a professional soccer club outside of MLS, Crew SC shall retain a percentage of a future transfer fee. |
| Transaction date: 1/29/2020 | |
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| VAN | VAN receive: Bryan Meredith (Goalkeeper) |
| MIA | MIA receive: Vancouver's fourth-round pick in the 2021 MLS SuperDraft |
| Transaction date: 1/21/2020 | |
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| LAFC | LAFC receive: Rights to Bryce Duke (Midfielder) |
| RSL | RSL receive: $50,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 1/21/2020 | |
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| DC | DC receive: Julian Gressel (Midfielder) |
| ATL | ATL receive: $650,000 in 2020 Targeted Allocation Money, $100,000 in 2021 Targeted Allocation Money. Additionally, Atlanta can receive up to $350,000 in TAM if Gressel meets certain performance-based metrics with D.C. United. |
| Transaction date: 1/21/2020 | |
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| MIN | MIN receive: Jacori Hayes (Midfielder) |
| DAL | DAL receive: Third-round pick in 2021 SuperDraft. The third round pick will become a second round pick if Hayes meets certain performance-based metrics next season while with Minnesota. Additionally, FC Dallas could receive up to $100,000 in Targeted Allocation Money (TAM) if Hayes meets certain performance metrics while with Minnesota United next season. |
| Transaction date: 1/16/2020 | |
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| MIN | MIN receive: Rights to Tyler Miller (Goalkeeper) |
| LAFC | LAFC receive: $150,000 in General Allocation Money, $50,000 in 2021 Targeted Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 1/14/2020 | |
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| COL | COL receive: Rights to Nicolas Benezet (Midfielder) |
| TOR | TOR receive: $50,000 in General Allocation Money, additional $50,000 in GAM if Benezet starts 75% of all games in 2020. |
| Transaction date: 1/13/2020 | |
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| LAFC | LAFC receive: Rights to Jose Cifuentes (Midfielder) |
| ORL | ORL receive: $100,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 1/9/2020 | |
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| COL | COL receive: Rights to No. 9 pick in 2020 SuperDraft (Jeremy Kelly) |
| MTL | MTL receive: $75,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 1/9/2020 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: No. 13 overall pick in 2020 SuperDraft (Elliot Panicco) |
| NE | NE receive: $50,000 in General Allocation Money, $50,000 in conditional General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 1/9/2020 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: No. 11 overall pick in 2020 SuperDraft (Alistair Johnston) |
| COL | COL receive: $75,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 1/9/2020 | |
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| RBNY | RBNY receive: No. 10 overall pick in 2020 SuperDraft (Patrick Seagrist) |
| CHI | CHI receive: $100,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 1/9/2020 | |
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| DC | DC receive: No. 21 overall pick in 2020 SuperDraft and No. 21 selection in 2020 Allocation Ranking |
| PHI | PHI receive: No. 17 selection in 2020 Allocation Ranking and potential $50,000 in General Allocation Money based on performance metrics of DC's No. 21 SuperDraft selection |
| Transaction date: 12/2/2019 | |
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| MIA | MIA receive: Rights to Juan Agudelo (Forward) |
| TOR | TOR receive: Third-round pick in 2021 SuperDraft |
| Transaction date: 12/17/2019 | |
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| RSL | RSL receive: Zac MacMath (Goalkeeper) |
| VAN | VAN receive: $50,000 in 2020 Targeted Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 12/12/2019 | |
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| CIN | CIN receive: Homegrown rights to Zico Bailey (Defender) |
| LA | LA receive: Fourth-round pick in 2020 SuperDraft (No. 81). Additionally, should Bailey meet certain performance incentives, FC Cincinnati could send an additional $50,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 12/2/2019 | |
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| ATL | ATL receive: Brooks Lennon (Defender) |
| RSL | RSL receive: $150,000 in General Allocation Money, $150,000 in Targeted Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 12/2/2019 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: Dominique Badji (Forward) |
| DAL | DAL receive: $150,000 in General Allocation Money, $175,000 in Targeted Allocation Money. FC Dallas will receive an additional $75,000 in General Allocation Money should Badji meet certain performance-based metrics with Nashville SC in the club’s Major League Soccer inaugural season in 2020 |
| Transaction date: 11/26/2019 | |
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| DAL | DAL receive: Rights to Fafa Picault (Midfielder) |
| PHI | PHI receive: $300,000 in 2020 General Allocation Money; $75,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money of Picault meets certain performance incentives |
| Transaction date: 11/26/2019 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: No. 2 pick in Stage 1 of 2019 Re-Entry Process (Eric Miller) |
| VAN | VAN receive: Second-round pick in 2022 SuperDraft, No. 25 pick in Stage 1 of 2019 Re-Entry Process |
| Transaction date: 11/26/2019 | |
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| SEA | SEA receive: Rights to Stefan Cleveland (Goalkeeper), Second-round pick in 2020 SuperDraft (No. 35 overall) |
| CHI | CHI receive: First-round pick in 2020 SuperDraft (No. 26 overall) |
| Transaction date: 11/25/2019 | |
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| NE | NE receive: No. 3 pick in 2019 Waiver Draft (Jeff Caldwell) |
| ORL | ORL receive: No. 11 pick in 2019 Waiver Draft, Second-round pick in 2020 SuperDraft |
| Transaction date: 11/20/2019 | |
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| MTL | MTL receive: Romell Quioto (Forward) |
| HOU | HOU receive: Victor Cabrera (Defender), $100,000 in General Allocation Money. Houston will retain a portion of Quioto's sell-on rights in the event he is transferred to a club outside Major League Soccer. |
| Transaction date: 11/20/2019 | |
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| COL | COL receive: Auston Trusty (Defender) |
| PHI | PHI receive: $300,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money, $300,000 in Targeted Allocation Money. The Union will receive an additional $150,000 in General Allocation Money if Trusty meets certain performance metrics. Furthermore, the Union will receive 30% of the transfer fee if Trusty is sold outside of the league on or before Dec. 31, 2021 and 25% on or after Jan. 1, 2022. The percentage would only apply to any amount of total allocation money received over what the Rapids paid the Union for Trusty, not the total transaction fee. |
| Transaction date: 11/20/2019 | |
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| COL | COL receive: Lalas Abubakar (Defender) |
| CLB | CLB receive: $400,000 in General Allocation Money, international roster spot |
| Transaction date: 11/19/2019 | |
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| MIA | MIA receive: No. 3 pick in 2019 SuperDraft (Dylan Nealis) |
| CIN | CIN receive: $150,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 11/19/2019 | |
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| CIN | CIN receive: Brandon Vazquez (Forward) |
| NSH | NSH receive: $150,000 in Targeted Allocation Money, additional $50,000 in General Allocation Money based on performance incentives |
| Transaction date: 11/19/2019 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: Daniel Lovitz (Defender) |
| MTL | MTL receive: $50,000 in Targeted Allocation Money, $50,000 in General Allocation Money, international roster spot |
| Transaction date: 11/19/2019 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: Adrian Zendejas (Goalkeeper) |
| SKC | SKC receive: $125,000 in Targeted Allocation Money, $50,000 in General Allocation Money, international roster spot |
| Transaction date: 11/19/2019 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: Joe Willis (Goalkeeper) |
| HOU | HOU receive: Zarek Valentin (Defender) |
| Transaction date: 11/14/2019 | |
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| MIA | MIA receive: Grant Lillard (Defender) |
| CHI | CHI receive: $75,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 11/13/2019 | |
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| HOU | HOU receive: Darwin Quintero (Forward), Third-round pick in 2020 SuperDraft |
| MIN | MIN receive: Marlon Hairston (Midfielder), $150,000 in 2020 General Allocation Money, $150,000 in 2020 Targeted Allocation Money, $150,000 in 2021 General Allocation Money, $150,000 in 2021 Targeted Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 11/13/2019 | |
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| MIA | MIA receive: Jay Chapman (Midfielder) |
| TOR | TOR receive: $100,000 in General Allocation Money |
| Transaction date: 11/13/2019 | |
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| CLB | CLB receive: Darlington Nagbe (Midfielder) |
| ATL | ATL receive: $700,000 in Targeted Allocation Money, $150,000 in General Allocation Money, international roster spot for the 2020 MLS season, $200,000 in Targeted Allocation Money for the 2021 MLS season. Should Nagbe meet certain performance conditions, Atlanta United would receive additional Allocation Money. |
| Transaction date: 11/12/2019 | |
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| MIA | MIA receive: Homegrown rights to Drake Callender (Goalkeeper) |
| SJ | SJ receive: Second-round pick in 2020 SuperDraft (No. 27 overall). San Jose can receive up to $150,000 in General Allocation Money if Callender meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 11/12/2019 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: Dave Romney (Defender) |
| LA | LA receive: $225,000 in General Allocation Money, the Galaxy will receive an additional $50,000 in General Allocation Money if Romney meets certain performance-based metrics. |
| Transaction date: 11/12/2019 | |
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| NSH | NSH receive: Dax McCarty (Midfielder) |
| CHI | CHI receive: $50,000 in General Allocation Money, $50,000 in Targeted Allocation Money, Second-round pick in 2021 SuperDraft |
| Transaction date: 11/11/2019 | |
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| MIA | MIA receive: Rights to Victor Ulloa (Midfielder), No. 1 pick in 2019 MLS Re-Entry Draft, Stage 1 (Mikey Ambrose) |
| CIN | CIN receive: $50,000 in General Allocation Money, Third-round pick in 2020 SuperDraft, No. 26 pick in 2019 MLS Re-Entry Draft (Stage 1) |
