Club: | Seattle Sounders FC |
Season: | 2016 |
Chrtitle: | General manager |
Chairman: | Garth Lagerwey |
Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
Manager: | Sigi Schmid (until July 26) Brian Schmetzer (after July 26, interim) |
League: | Major League Soccer |
Stadium: | CenturyLink Field |
League Result: | Conference 4th |
Cup1: | MLS Cup Playoffs |
Cup1 Result: | Winners |
Cup2: | U.S. Open Cup |
Cup2 Result: | Quarterfinals |
Cup3: | CONCACAF Champions League (15–16) |
Cup3 Result: | Quarterfinals |
Cup4: | Cascadia Cup |
Cup4 Result: | 3rd |
Cup5: | Heritage Cup |
Cup5 Result: | Winners |
League Topscorer: | Jordan Morris (12)[1] |
Season Topscorer: | Jordan Morris (14) |
Highest Attendance: | 53,302 (Aug. 21 vs. Portland)[2] |
Lowest Attendance: | League: 39,269 (Sept. 28 vs. Chicago) All: 36,151 (Oct. 27 vs. Kansas City, Playoffs) |
Average Attendance: | League: 42,636 All: 42,040 |
Largest Win: | League: 5–0 vs. Dallas (Jul. 13) |
Largest Loss: | League: 0–3 at Kansas City (Jul. 24) |
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Prevseason: | 2015 |
Nextseason: | 2017 |
The 2016 season was the eighth season for Seattle Sounders FC in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top flight of professional club soccer in the United States. The team were managed by Sigi Schmid until his firing in late July; he was replaced by Brian Schmetzer on an interim basis. The Sounders won their first MLS Cup in the 2016 final against Toronto FC, which ended in a penalty shootout after a scoreless draw.
See main article: 2016 Major League Soccer season.
See also: 2016 MLS Cup Playoffs.
See main article: MLS Cup 2016.
See main article: 2016 U.S. Open Cup.
See main article: 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League.
Last updated on December 11, 2016.
|-|colspan="14"|Players out on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who left the club during the season:
[S2] - S2 player
For transfers in, dates listed are when Sounders FC officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Sounders FC officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from Sounders FC roster.
No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee/notes | Date | Source |
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1 | Seattle Sounders FC 2 | Free | [3] | |||
Denver Pioneers | Signed HGP deal | [4] | ||||
33 | Chicago Fire | Trade | ||||
12 | D.C. United | Free | ||||
13 | Stanford | Signed HGP deal | [5] | |||
18 | Houston Dynamo | Free | ||||
39 | Seattle Sounders FC 2 | Free | [6] | |||
25 | Cal State Dominguez Hills | Draft pick | [7] | |||
9 | Toronto FC | Free | [8] | |||
10 | Boca Juniors | Undisclosed (~$6M) | [9] | |||
21 | Gimnasia (LP) | Undisclosed | [10] | |||
See also: 2016 MLS SuperDraft.
Draft picks are not automatically signed to the team roster. Only those who are signed to a contract will be listed as transfers in. Only trades involving draft picks and executed after the start of 2015 MLS SuperDraft will be listed in the notes.
Date | Player | Number | Position | Previous club | Notes | Ref |
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January 14, 2016 | Tony Alfaro | 25 | DF | Cal State Dominguez Hills | MLS SuperDraft 2nd Round Pick (#27); Pick acquired from Toronto FC through Philadelphia Union and Orlando City SC in exchange for defender Eriq Zavaleta. | [11] [12] |
January 14, 2016 | Zach Mathers | MF | Duke | MLS SuperDraft 2nd Round Pick (#35) | ||
January 19, 2016 | Emir Alihodzic | MF | Nebraska | MLS SuperDraft 3rd Round Pick (#54); Pick acquired from D.C. United in exchange for midfielder Alex Caskey. | ||
January 19, 2016 | Michael Nelson | DF | Old Dominion | MLS SuperDraft 4th Round Pick (#76) | ||
No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee/notes | Date | Source | |
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42 | Colorado Rapids | Waived, Second pick in 2015 MLS Waiver Draft | [13] | ||||
19 | San Jose Earthquakes | Waived | |||||
13 | Boyacá Chicó F.C. | Waived | |||||
12 | Herediano | Waived | |||||
1 | Retired | Waived | |||||
8 | Retired | Waived | |||||
18 | Joinville Esporte Clube | Waived | |||||
5 | Coventry City | Free Transfer | [14] | ||||
27 | D.C. United | Traded for general and targeted allocation money | |||||
10 | Colorado Rapids | Waived, Traded for allocation money | |||||
9 | Shanghai Shenhua | Undisclosed Fee | [15] | ||||
Seattle Sounders FC 2 | Waived | ||||||
5 | New York Cosmos | Out on Loan | |||||
31 | Minnesota United FC | Out on Loan | |||||
99 | Oklahoma City Energy FC | Waived | [16] |
A. Player who were under contract with Seattle Sounders FC 2.