Inter Miami CF today announced the club’s protected player list for the 2024 Major League Soccer (MLS) Expansion Draft for newcomer San Diego FC. The live show is scheduled for Wednesday, December 11th at 10:30 p.m. ET and will be streamed live on SanDiegoFC.com.

The 30th club in the MLS, San Diego FC, will continue to expand its inaugural season roster by selecting up to five players from the eligible list.

The 29 MLS clubs that competed during the 2024 season will be able to protect 12 players from their senior and supplemental squads; If a player’s contract expires at the end of 2024, he will still be considered part of the club’s squad. Generation adidas players who are on a club’s roster in roster slots 21-24 in the year the Expansion Draft takes place at the end of the 2024 MLS season and Homegrown players who are 25 years old and younger automatically protected. Clubs do not have to use a protected slot on them. Once a player is removed from a club’s unprotected roster, that club is eliminated from the Expansion Draft and may not lose any further players.

Inter Miami’s roster consists of 20 protected players, 12 of which were selected by the club in accordance with MLS requirements and eight of whom are automatically protected due to their Homegrown or Generation adidas status.

Additional rules and procedures for the 2024 MLS Expansion Draft can be found at https://www.mlssoccer.com/news/2024-mls-expansion-draft-rules-procedures.

Inter Miami CF’s rosters for the 2024 MLS Expansion Draft are as follows:

1. GK – Drake Callender
2. D – Jordi Alba
3. D – Tomas Aviles
4. D – David Martinez
5. M – Yannick Bright
6. M – Sergio Busquets
7. M – Federico Redondo
8. M – Robert Taylor
9. F – Leonardo Campana
10. F – Facundo Farías
11. F – Lionel Messi
12. F – Luis Suarez

Automatically Protected Players (8):

1. D-Noah Allen
2. D – Israeli boat builder
3. D – Ian Fray
4. D-Tyler Hall
5. M – Benjamin Cremaschi
6. M – Santiago Morales
7. M – David Ruiz
8. F – Felipe Valencia

Offseason roster building events continue with the opening of free agency and the year-end waiver process on Thursday, December 12, and Phase 1 of the re-entry process on Friday, December 13. Phase 2 of the re-registration process will take place on Thursday, December 19th, followed by the 2025 MLS SuperDraft on Friday, December 20th.

More information about the 2024-25 Offseason Roster Building Events can be found HERE.