Homegrown Player Rule (Major League Soccer)
Signed as HGP Player Nation Current club 2019 Guaranteed Compensation
2017 Andrew Carleton USA Atlanta United FC $ 97,400
2018 George Bello USA Atlanta United FC $ 79,000
2018 Lagos Kunga USA Atlanta United FC $ 73,250
2020 George Campbell USA Atlanta United FC $ n/a
2020 Tyler Wolff USA Atlanta United FC $ n/a
2017 Djordje Mihailovic USA Chicago Fire $ 111,000
2019 Jeremiah Gutjahr USA Chicago Fire $ 56,250
2019 Andre Reynolds II USA Chicago Fire $ 64,250
2019 Gabriel Slonina USA Chicago Fire $ 74,800
2020 Nicholas Slonina USA Chicago Fire $ n/a
2020 Mauricio Pineda USA Chicago Fire $ n/a
2020 Brian Gutiérrez USA Chicago Fire $ n/a
2020 Javier Casas USA Chicago Fire $ n/a
2020 Alex Monis USA Chicago Fire $ n/a
2020 Zico Bailey USA FC Cincinnati $ n/a
2012 Kellyn Acosta USA Colorado Rapids $ 665,000
2016 Auston Trusty USA Colorado Rapids $ 124,100
2017 Kortne Ford USA Colorado Rapids $ 85,000
2018 Sam Vines USA Colorado Rapids $ 81,250
2018 Cole Bassett USA Colorado Rapids $ 84,000
Current Homegrown Players in MLS
The Homegrown Player Rule is a Major League Soccer program that allows MLS teams to sign local players from their own development academies directly to MLS first team rosters. Before the creation of the rule in 2008, every player entering Major League Soccer would have to be assigned through one of the existing MLS player allocation processes, such as the MLS SuperDraft. MLS roster rules allow a team to sign players to contracts similar to Generation adidas contracts, which do not count against the MLS salary budget and may earn a much higher salary than the league minimum. MLS has since removed this wording from the roster rules. That means homegrown players will not count against the salary budget only if they are registered using supplemental roster slots, but will still count against the salary budget if they are registered using senior roster slots. There is, however, supplementary salary budget made by MLS only for homegrown players that are registered using senior roster slots called homegrown player funds. To place a player on its homegrown player list, making him eligible to sign as a homegrown player, players must have resided in that club's home territory and participated in the club's youth development system for at least one year, as well as meeting other unspecified league requirements. If a player on a team's homegrown list goes to college or U17, U20, and U23 United States men's national soccer teams, he remains eligible to sign as a homegrown player at any time as long as he is registered with the club as a homegrown player first. In 2014, Seattle's DeAndre Yedlin became the first MLS Homegrown player to compete in a World Cup.