Club: | Seattle Sounders FC |
Season: | 2022 |
Chrtitle: | General manager |
Chairman: | Garth Lagerwey |
Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
Manager: | Brian Schmetzer |
Stadium: | Lumen Field |
League: | Major League Soccer |
League Result: | Conference 11th |
Cup1 Result: | Did not qualify |
Cup2 Result: | Round of 32 |
Cup3 Result: | Champions |
Cup4: | Cascadia Cup |
Cup4 Result: | 3rd |
Cup5: | Heritage Cup |
Cup5 Result: | Runners-up |
League Topscorer: | Raúl Ruidíaz (9)[1] |
Season Topscorer: | Nicolás Lodeiro Raúl Ruidíaz (12 each) |
Highest Attendance: | All: 68,741 (vs. UNAM, May 4, CCL Final) League: 47,722 (July 9 vs. Portland) |
Lowest Attendance: | CCL: 28,932 (vs. Motagua Feb. 24) League: 30,013 (vs. Nashville Feb. 27) |
Average Attendance: | League: 33,607[2] |
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Largest Win: | All: 5–0 vs. Motagua (Feb. 17, CCL) League: 4–0 vs. Vancouver (June 14) |
Largest Loss: | 0–3 vs. Portland (July 9) |
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Prevseason: | 2021 |
Nextseason: | 2023 |
The 2022 season was Seattle Sounders FC's 14th in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top flight of American club soccer. It was the 39th season played by a professional team bearing the Sounders name. The team was under the management of Brian Schmetzer in his sixth full MLS season as head coach of the Sounders.
In early May, the Sounders won the CONCACAF Champions League title after defeating UNAM of the Liga MX 5–2 in aggregate scoring, becoming the first team in Major League Soccer to win the CONCACAF Champions League.[3] The season ended with the team missing the MLS Cup Playoffs for the first time in the league, snapping a 13-year streak that was the longest active streak in MLS history.[4] The Sounders last missed the playoffs in 2006 as a second-division club in the USL First Division.[5] The team also failed to win in their final nine road matches from July through the end of the season.[6]
During the offseason, the Sounders hired former player Andy Rose as an assistant coach, joining Freddy Juarez, who had been signed in August 2021, and Preki.[7]
No. | Name | Nationality | Position | Date of birth (age) | Previous club | |
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3 | 28 September 1994 | Barcelona S.C. | ||||
5 | 23 June 1997 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
6 | 8 March 1991 | Botafogo | ||||
7 | 3 June 1995 | Washington Huskies | ||||
9 | 25 July 1990 | Atlético Morelia | ||||
10 | 21 March 1989 | Boca Juniors | ||||
11 | 7 July 1994 | Real Salt Lake | ||||
12 | 26 July 1987 | Vancouver Whitecaps FC | ||||
13 | 26 October 1994 | Stanford Cardinal | ||||
14 | 30 September 1998 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
16 | 28 July 1996 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
17 | 24 October 1989 | Houston Dynamo FC | ||||
21 | 31 March 2005 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
22 | 2 December 1991 | New England Revolution | ||||
23 | 4 June 2000 | Grêmio | ||||
24 | 20 April 1986 | Toronto FC | ||||
25 | 24 September 1998 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
26 | 1 September 1998 | Stanford Cardinal | ||||
28 | 30 June 1992 | Unión de Santa Fe | ||||
30 | 24 May 1994 | Chicago Fire FC | ||||
45 | 14 November 2002 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
73 | 5 August 2005 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
75 | 5 May 2003 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
84 | 31 January 2002 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
87 | 25 March 2002 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
92 | 27 December 1999 | Tacoma Defiance | ||||
94 | 7 February 1994 | Nashville SC | ||||
99 | 14 May 2000 | Washington Huskies |
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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14 | Tacoma Defiance | Free Transfer | [10] | ||||
73 | Tacoma Defiance | Free Transfer | |||||
99 | University of Washington | Homegrown Signing | [11] | ||||
18 | Real Salt Lake | Designated Player | [12] | ||||
25 | Tacoma Defiance | College Protected Period | February 14, 2022 | [13] | |||
36 | Tacoma Defiance | Short Term Extreme Hardship Contract | March 20, 2022 | ||||
45 | MFK Vyškov | Loan Recall | [14] |
See also: 2022 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 2022 MLS SuperDraft will be listed in the notes.
Date | Player | Position | School | Notes | Ref |
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January 11, 2022 | Achille Robin | DF | University of Washington | MLS SuperDraft 2nd Round Pick (#43) | [15] |
January 11, 2022 | Hal Uderitz | MF | Seattle University | MLS SuperDraft 3rd Round Pick (#76) |
No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee/notes | Date | Source | |
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20 | Option declined | [16] | |||||
8 | Option declined | ||||||
37 | Option declined | ||||||
1 | Loudoun United | Option declined | |||||
27 | Toronto FC | Free transfer | [17] | ||||
18 | Chicago Fire FC | Free transfer | [18] | ||||
11 | D.C. United | Traded for $750,000 in GAM | [19] | ||||
45 | MFK Vyškov | Loan through May 31, 2022 | [20] |
The Seattle Sounders announced their pre-season schedule on January 22, 2022. Seattle competed against its rival, the Portland Timbers, in a friendly match in Tuscan as part of the Desert Showcase which was hosted by FC Tucson.[21] The club also participated in the Coachella Valley Invitational with its host, LA Galaxy.[22]
See main article: 2022 Major League Soccer season.
The MLS schedule was released on December 15, 2021.[23] Several matches were later rescheduled to accommodate CONCACAF Champions League fixtures.
The Sounders entered the 2022 U.S. Open Cup in the Round of 32 on May 11, 2022, by virtue of finishing second in the 2021 Western Conference. The draw occurred on April 22, 2022.[24]
See also: 2022 CONCACAF Champions League.
The Sounders qualified to the round of 16 of the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League by virtue of their second-place finish in the 2021 Western Conference. The round of 16 draw occurred on December 15.[25]
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width=30 | Rank | width=30 | Position | width=30 | Number | width=175 | Name | width=75 | width=75 | width=75 | width=75 | width=75 | Total | ||||
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1 | FW | 9 | Raúl Ruidíaz | 9 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | |||||||||
MF | 10 | Nicolás Lodeiro | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | ||||||||||
3 | FW | 13 | Jordan Morris | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | |||||||||
4 | FW | 12 | Fredy Montero | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||
5 | MF | 7 | Cristian Roldan | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||
6 | MF | 11 | Albert Rusnák | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
7 | FW | 17 | Will Bruin | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||
8 | MF | 22 | Kelyn Rowe | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
9 | DF | 3 | Xavier Arreaga | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
MF | 6 | João Paulo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
DF | 16 | Alex Roldan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
MF | 99 | Dylan Teves | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
DF | 28 | Yeimar Gómez Andrade | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
DF | 5 | Nouhou | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
FW | 23 | Léo Chú | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
MF | 94 | Jimmy Medranda | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||