On Friday, St. Louis City SC will take part in this year’s expansion draft before taking the field as Major League Soccer’s 29th next season. St. Louis will have the ability to select five total players from any MLS team that did not have a player selected in Charlotte FC’s expansion draft in 2021. (Austin FC, Atlanta United FC, D.C. United, LAFC, and New York City FC are exempted from Friday’s draft).
The Columbus Crew was in the unfortunate position of having a player drafted in every expansion draft that a Black & Gold player was available in (Columbus was exempted from the draft in 2018 and 2020 due to having a player drafted in the prior season) but that streak was broken when no player was selected by Charlotte.