Portland Thorns FC announced today the club’s list of protected and unprotected players for the upcoming 2022 NWSL Expansion Draft. The draft will take place on December 16 as Angel City and San Diego enter the NWSL. The draft’s processes and procedures can be found here.
Each NWSL team can protect nine players, only one of which can be a U.S. allocated player. Multiple teams have traded for expansion immunity from one or two of the incoming teams. The Thorns have draft immunity from Angel City but not from San Diego Wave FC.