Women’s Professional Soccer’s two expansion teams joining the league for 2010, the Philadelphia Independence and the Atlanta Beat, will begin forming their rosters next Tuesday, September 15 when the WPS Expansion Draft takes place between the two expansion teams and the seven WPS teams that played in 2009.
 
Atlanta will select first and fourth in the 2009 Expansion Draft, while Philadelphia will have selections #2 and #3. Selections following the fourth pick will alternate. Philadelphia will have selections 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17. Atlanta will feature selections 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18.
 
The results of the 2009 Expansion Draft will be published on womensprosoccer.com on Tuesday evening, September 15. The 2009 International Draft for expansion teams will be Tuesday, September 22.
 
Basic draft mechanics are as follows:
 
2009 Expansion Draft – September 15 (via teleconference)

• Existing teams may protect up to 10 players (but must leave a minimum of 6 unprotected)
• Expansion teams must each select one player from each existing team prior to selecting a second player from an existing team. This will also hold true after a 2nd player is selected from an existing team.
• Existing teams may protect two after losing their first player
• Existing teams may protect one after losing their second player
• An existing team may not lose more than three players
• Expansion teams may each select a total of nine players