The following is a list of transfers for the 2016 Major League Soccer season that have been made during the 2015–16 MLS offseason all the way through to the roster freeze on September 1, 2016.

The 2015–16 offseason is the first in the history of MLS in which free agency is allowed for qualified veteran players. Justin Mapp became the first MLS free-agent transfer on December 14, 2015, when he signed with Sporting Kansas City.^[1]

Transfers

Date	Name	Moving from	Moving to	Mode of Transfer
November 3, 2015	Tyler Adams	New York Red Bulls II	New York Red Bulls	Free[2]
November 9, 2015	Mason Stajduhar	Orlando City U-23	Orlando City SC	Homegrown player[3]
December 6, 2015	Lamar Neagle	Seattle Sounders FC	D.C. United	Trade[4]
December 6, 2015	Chris Pontius	D.C. United	Philadelphia Union	Trade[5]
December 7, 2015	Cristian Maidana	Philadelphia Union	Houston Dynamo	Trade[6]
December 7, 2015	Andrew Wenger	Philadelphia Union	Houston Dynamo	Trade[6]
December 7, 2015	Kenney Walker	LA Galaxy	FC Cincinnati	Free[7]
December 9, 2015	Michael Azira	Seattle Sounders FC	Colorado Rapids	2015 Waiver Draft[8]
December 9, 2015	Lawrence Olum	Kedah FA	Sporting Kansas City	Free[9]
December 10, 2015	Ethan White	Philadelphia Union	New York City FC	Trade
December 10, 2015	Dane Richards	New York Red Bulls	Miami FC	Free[10]
December 11, 2015	Maximiliano Urruti	Portland Timbers	FC Dallas	2015 Re-Entry Draft[11]
December 11, 2015	Alec Kann	Chicago Fire	Sporting Kansas City	2015 Re-Entry Draft[12]
December 11, 2015	Jorge Villafaña	Portland Timbers	Santos Laguna	Undisclosed[13]
December 11, 2015	Chris Klute	Columbus Crew SC	Portland Timbers	Trade[14]
December 11, 2015	Zac MacMath	Philadelphia Union	Colorado Rapids	Trade[15]
December 14, 2015	Justin Mapp	Free Agent	Sporting Kansas City	Free[1]
December 15, 2015	Dan Kennedy	FC Dallas	LA Galaxy	Trade[16]
December 15, 2015	Marco Pappa	Seattle Sounders FC	Colorado Rapids	Trade[17]
December 16, 2015	Drew Moor	Free Agent	Toronto FC	Free[18]
December 16, 2015	Clément Diop	LA Galaxy II	LA Galaxy	Free[19]
December 16, 2015	Kristinn Steindórsson	Columbus Crew SC	GIF Sundsvall	Free[20]
December 17, 2015	Kevin Alston	New England Revolution	Orlando City SC	2015 Re-Entry Draft[21]
December 17, 2015	Jermaine Taylor	Houston Dynamo	Portland Timbers	2015 Re-Entry Draft[21]
December 17, 2015	Joey Calistri	Chicago Fire Academy	Chicago Fire	Homegrown player[22]
December 17, 2015	Drew Conner	Chicago Fire Academy	Chicago Fire	Homegrown player[22]
December 17, 2015	Daniel Steres	LA Galaxy II	LA Galaxy	Free[23]
December 18, 2015	Corey Ashe	Free Agent	Columbus Crew SC	Free[24]
December 18, 2015	Steven Beitashour	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Toronto FC	Trade[25]
December 18, 2015	Will Johnson	Portland Timbers	Toronto FC	Trade[26]
December 21, 2015	Joe Bendik	Toronto FC	Orlando City SC	Trade[27]
December 21, 2015	Tyler Miller	Seattle Sounders FC 2	Seattle Sounders FC	Free[28]
December 21, 2015	Derrick Etienne	New York Red Bulls Academy	New York Red Bulls	Homegrown player[29]
December 21, 2015	Brandon Allen	New York Red Bulls Academy	New York Red Bulls	Homegrown player[29]
December 22, 2015	Alex Muyl	New York Red Bulls Academy	New York Red Bulls	Homegrown player[30]
December 22, 2015	Omar Gonzalez	LA Galaxy	Pachuca	Undisclosed[31]
December 22, 2015	Leonardo González	Seattle Sounders FC	Herediano	Free[32]
December 23, 2015	Bradley Bourgeois	Houston Dynamo Academy	Houston Dynamo	Homegrown player[33]
December 23, 2015	Luis Gil	Real Salt Lake	Querétaro	Free[34]
December 23, 2015	Mael Corboz	New York Red Bulls Academy	New York Red Bulls	Homegrown player[35]
December 23, 2015	Scott Thomsen	New York Red Bulls Academy	New York Red Bulls	Homegrown player[35]
December 23, 2015	Chris Thorsheim	New York Red Bulls Academy	New York Red Bulls	Homegrown player[35]
December 24, 2015	Andy Rose	Seattle Sounders FC	Coventry City	Free[36]
December 24, 2015	Juninho	LA Galaxy	Tijuana	Unidsclosed[37]
December 28, 2015	Chad Barrett	Free Agent	San Jose Earthquakes	Free[5]
December 28, 2015	Roy Miller	New York Red Bulls	Saprissa	Free[38]
December 28, 2015	Danny Mwanga	Orlando City SC	Tampa Bay Rowdies	Free[39]
December 29, 2015	Masato Kudo	Kashiwa Reysol	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Free[40]
December 29, 2015	Danilo Acosta	Real Monarchs	Real Salt Lake	Homegrown player[41]
December 30, 2015	Liam Ridgewell	Portland Timbers	Brighton & Hove Albion	Loan[42]
January 5, 2016	Aaron Guillen	Florida Gulf Coast	FC Dallas	Homegrown player[43]
January 5, 2016	Emanuel Pogatetz	Columbus Crew SC	Union Berlin	Free[44]
January 6, 2016	Simon Dawkins	Derby County	San Jose Earthquakes	Free[45]
January 6, 2016	Cristian Techera	River Plate Montevideo	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Undisclosed[46]
January 6, 2016	Jeff Larentowicz	Free Agent	LA Galaxy	Free[47]
January 6, 2016	Patrick Nyarko	Chicago Fire	D.C. United	Trade[48]
January 7, 2016	Brad Davis	Houston Dynamo	Sporting Kansas City	Trade[49]
January 7, 2016	Jordan Schweitzer	Denver Pioneers	Seattle Sounders FC	Homegrown player[50]
January 8, 2016	Michael Nanchoff	Portland Timbers	Tampa Bay Rowdies	Free[51]
January 11, 2016	Jalil Anibaba	Sporting Kansas City	Houston Dynamo	Free[52]
January 12, 2016	Zarek Valentin	Montreal Impact	Portland Timbers	Trade[53]
January 12, 2016	Ned Grabavoy	Free Agent	Portland Timbers	Free[54]
January 12, 2016	Wálter Restrepo	New York Cosmos	Philadelphia Union	Undisclosed[55]
January 12, 2016	Michael Lahoud	Philadelphia Union	New York Cosmos	Loan[55]
January 12, 2016	Sebastian Saucedo	Real Salt Lake	Veracruz	Loan[56]
January 12, 2016	Lovel Palmer	Chicago Fire	Indy Eleven	Free[57]
January 13, 2016	Dániel Sallói	Újpest FC	Sporting Kansas City	Homegrown player[58]
January 13, 2016	Andrés Imperiale	Saprissa	San Jose Earthquakes	Free[59]
January 13, 2016	Jack McInerney	Columbus Crew SC	Portland Timbers	Trade[60]
January 13, 2016	Anderson Conceição	Tombense	Philadelphia Union	Loan[61]
January 13, 2016	Marius Obekop	New York Red Bulls	Orlando City B	Free[62]
January 14, 2016	Mike Magee	Free Agent	LA Galaxy	Free[63]
January 14, 2016	Emmanuel Boateng	Helsingborgs IF	LA Galaxy	Free[64]
January 14, 2016	Joevin Jones	Chicago Fire	Seattle Sounders FC	Trade[65]
January 14, 2016	Jairo Arrieta	D.C. United	New York Cosmos	Free[66]
January 14, 2016	Jack Harrison	Wake Forest Demon Deacons	New York City F.C.	SuperDraft[67]
January 14, 2016	Brandon Vincent	Stanford Cardinal	Chicago Fire	SuperDraft[68]
January 14, 2016	Jonathan Campbell	North Carolina Tar Heels	Chicago Fire	SuperDraft[68]
January 15, 2016	Zach Pfeffer	Philadelphia Union	Colorado Rapids	Trade[69]
January 15, 2016	Yura Movsisyan	Spartak Moscow	Real Salt Lake	Loan[70]
January 15, 2016	Matt Watson	Chicago Fire	Carolina RailHawks	Free[71]
January 18, 2016	Michael Harrington	Free Agent	Chicago Fire	Free[72]
January 18, 2016	Patrick McLain	Sacramento Republic	Chicago Fire	Free[72]
January 18, 2016	Lucas Ontivero	Galatasaray	Montreal Impact	Loan[73]
January 18, 2016	Clint Irwin	Colorado Rapids	Toronto FC	Trade[74]
January 18, 2016	Deybi Flores	C.D. Motagua	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Undisclosed[75]
January 20, 2016	Juan Esteban Ortiz	Atlético Huila	FC Dallas	Free[76]
January 20, 2016	Christian Bolaños	Saprissa	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Undisclosed[77]
January 20, 2016	Rónald Matarrita	Alajuelense	New York City FC	Undisclosed[78]
January 20, 2016	Michael Farfan	D.C. United	Seattle Sounders FC	Free[79]
January 21, 2016	Sebastián Jaime	Real Salt Lake	Universidad Católica	Free[80]
January 21, 2016	Jordan Morris	Stanford	Seattle Sounders FC	Homegrown player[81]
January 21, 2016	Stephen Sunday	Alanyaspor	Real Salt Lake	Free[82]
January 21, 2016	Michel	FC Dallas	Rayo OKC	Free[83]
January 22, 2016	Sambinha	Sporting B	New England Revolution	Loan[84]
January 22, 2016	Emil Larsen	OB	Columbus Crew SC	Free[85]
January 22, 2016	Diego Martínez	River Plate	New York City FC	Free[86]
January 22, 2016	Emery Welshman	Real Monarchs	Real Salt Lake	Free[5]
January 23, 2016	Carlos Gruezo	VfB Stuttgart	FC Dallas	Undisclosed[87]
January 23, 2016	Víctor Cabrera	River Plate	Montreal Impact	Undisclosed[88]
January 23, 2016	João Meira	Belenenses	Chicago Fire	Free[89]
January 25, 2016	Tommy Meyer	LA Galaxy	Swope Park Rangers	Free[90]
January 25, 2016	Alexandros Tabakis	Panathinaikos	Atlanta United FC	Free[91]
January 25, 2016	Alexandros Tabakis	Atlanta United FC	Charleston Battery	Loan[91]
January 26, 2016	Conor Casey	Free Agent	Columbus Crew SC	Free[92]
January 26, 2016	Maynor Figueroa	Colorado Rapids	FC Dallas	Trade[93]
January 26, 2016	Jelle Van Damme	Standard Liège	LA Galaxy	Free[94]
January 26, 2016	Nuno André Coelho	Balıkesirspor	Sporting Kansas City	Free[95]
January 26, 2016	Mikey Lopez	Sporting Kansas City	New York City FC	Free[96]
January 26, 2016	Juan Ramírez	Colorado Rapids	UD Almería	Loan[97]
January 27, 2016	David Rocha	Gimnàstic	Houston Dynamo	Free[98]
January 27, 2016	Agus	Albacete	Houston Dynamo	Free[98]
January 27, 2016	Ashley Cole	Roma	LA Galaxy	Free[99]
January 27, 2016	Devron García	C.D. Victoria	Orlando City SC	Undisclosed[100]
January 27, 2016	Nick LaBrocca	Free Agent	Chicago Fire	Free[101]
January 28, 2016	Frédéric Brillant	KV Oostende	New York City FC	Undisclosed[102]
January 29, 2016	Fraser Aird	Rangers	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Loan[103]
January 29, 2016	Krisztián Németh	Sporting Kansas City	Al-Gharafa	Undisclosed[104]
January 30, 2016	Matt Miazga	New York Red Bulls	Chelsea	Undisclosed[105]
January 30, 2016	Leonel Miranda	Independiente	Houston Dynamo	Loan[106]
February 1, 2016	Erik Palmer-Brown	Sporting Kansas City	FC Porto	Loan[107]
February 1, 2016	Xavier Kouassi	FC Sion	New England Revolution	Free[108]
February 1, 2016	Shkëlzen Gashi	FC Basel	Colorado Rapids	Undisclosed[109]
February 1, 2016	Marcelo Sarvas	Colorado Rapids	D.C. United	Trade[110]
February 2, 2016	George Fochive	Portland Timbers	Viborg FF	Undisclosed[111]
February 2, 2016	Johan Kappelhof	FC Groningen	Chicago Fire	Undisclosed[112]
February 2, 2016	Junior Burgos	Atlanta Silverbacks	Atlanta United FC	Free[113]
February 2, 2016	Junior Burgos	Atlanta United FC	Tampa Bay Rowdies	Loan[113]
February 2, 2016	Chris Wingert	New York City FC	Real Salt Lake	Waivers[114]
February 3, 2016	Nigel de Jong	Milan	LA Galaxy	Free[115]
February 3, 2016	Amro Tarek	Real Betis	Columbus Crew SC	Loan[116]
February 3, 2016	Rodrigo Ramos	Coritiba	Chicago Fire	Loan[117]
February 4, 2016	Ola Kamara	Austria Wien	Columbus Crew SC	Undisclosed[118]
February 4, 2016	Roland Alberg	ADO Den Haag	Philadelphia Union	Undisclosed[119]
February 5, 2016	Mekeil Williams	Antigua GFC	Colorado Rapids	Undisclosed[120]
February 9, 2016	Gideon Baah	HJK Helsinki	New York Red Bulls	Undisclosed[121]
February 9, 2016	Conor Doyle	D.C. United	Colorado Rapids	Trade[122]
February 9, 2016	Matt Jones	Belenenses	Philadelphia Union	Loan[123]
February 11, 2016	Gershon Koffie	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	New England Revolution	Trade[124]
February 12, 2016	Carlos Lizarazo	Cruz Azul	FC Dallas	Loan[125]
February 13, 2016	Harry Shipp	Chicago Fire	Montreal Impact	Trade[126]
February 14, 2016	Eric Miller	Montreal Impact	Colorado Rapids	Trade[127]
February 15, 2016	Luciano Acosta	Boca Juniors	D.C. United	Loan[128]
February 16, 2016	Mauro Rosales	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	FC Dallas	Trade[129]
February 16, 2016	Blas Pérez	FC Dallas	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Trade[129]
February 17, 2016	Rob Vincent	Pittsburgh Riverhounds	D.C. United	Undisclosed[130]
February 17, 2016	Bernardo Añor	Sporting Kansas City	Minnesota United FC	Loan[131]
February 18, 2016	Antonio Nocerino	AC Milan	D.C. United	Free[5]
February 18, 2016	Antonio Nocerino	D.C. United	Orlando City SC	Trade[5][132]
February 18, 2016	Je-Vaughn Watson	FC Dallas	New England Revolution	Mutual Contract Termination[5]
February 18, 2016	Abdoulie Mansally	Real Salt Lake	Houston Dynamo	Trade[5]
February 19, 2016	Paul Clowes	Clemson Tigers	D.C. United	SuperDraft[5]
February 20, 2016	Federico Bravo	Boca Juniors	New York City FC	Loan[5]
February 20, 2016	Ilsinho	FC Shakhtar Donetsk	Philadelphia Union	Free[5]
February 23, 2016	Nathan Sturgis	Houston Dynamo	Seattle Sounders FC	Free[5]
February 23, 2016	Amobi Okugo	Sporting Kansas City	New York Red Bulls II	Free[5]
February 24, 2016	Alberto Quintero	Lobos BUAP	San Jose Earthquakes	Loan[5]
February 25, 2016	Obafemi Martins	Seattle Sounders FC	Shanghai Greenland Shenhua F.C.	Transfer[5]
February 26, 2016	Memo Rodriguez	Houston Dynamo	Rio Grande Valley FC Toros	Waived[5]
February 26, 2016	Taylor Hunter	Houston Dynamo	Rio Grande Valley FC Toros	Waived[5]
February 26, 2016	Matt Lampson	Columbus Crew SC	Chicago Fire	Free[5]
February 26, 2016	Luke Moore	Toronto FC		Waived[5]
February 27, 2016	J. J. Koval	San Jose Earthquakes	Sacramento Republic	Waived[5]
February 27, 2016	Tsubasa Endoh	Maryland Terrapins	Toronto FC	SuperDraft[5]
February 29, 2016	John Goossens	FC Voluntari	Chicago Fire	Free[5]
February 29, 2016	Ryan Herman	Washington Huskies	FC Dallas	SuperDraft[5]
February 29, 2016	Timo Pitter	Creighton Bluejays	FC Dallas	SuperDraft[5]
February 29, 2016	Rasheed Olabiyi	Houston Dynamo		Waived[5]
February 29, 2016	Dan Gargan	Los Angeles Galaxy		Waived[5]
February 29, 2016	Ignacio Maganto	Los Angeles Galaxy	Hajduk Split	Waived[5]
February 29, 2016	Mael Corboz	New York Red Bulls	Wilmington Hammerheads FC	Waived[5]
March 1, 2016	Marcel de Jong	Sporting Kansas City	Ottawa Fury FC	Mutual Contract Termination[133]
March 1, 2016	Michael Salazar	UC Riverside Highlanders	Montreal Impact	SuperDraft[5]
March 1, 2016	Neco Brett	Robert Morris Colonials	Portland Timbers	SuperDraft[5]
March 1, 2016	Wade Hamilton	Cal Poly Mustangs	Portland Timbers	SuperDraft[5]
March 1, 2016	Oalex Anderson	Seattle Sounders FC 2	Seattle Sounders FC	Signed[5]
March 1, 2016	Jordan Schweitzer	Seattle Sounders FC	Seattle Sounders FC 2	Waived and signed[5]
March 2, 2016	Collen Warner	Toronto FC	Houston Dynamo	Trade[5]
March 2, 2016	Kingsley Bryce	Chicago Fire		Waived[5]
March 2, 2016	Herculez Gomez	Toronto FC	Seattle Sounders FC	Waived[5]
March 2, 2016	Colin Bonner	UNC Wilmington Seahawks	FC Dallas	SuperDraft[5]
March 3, 2016	Arturo Álvarez	Videoton FC	Chicago Fire	Free[5]
March 3, 2016	Charlie Horton	Leeds United	New England Revolution	Free[5]
March 3, 2016	Charlie Horton	New England Revolution	D.C. United	Trade[5]
March 3, 2016	Davy Arnaud	D.C. United		Retired[5]
March 3, 2016	Michael Gamble	Wake Forest Demon Deacons	New England Revolution	SuperDraft[5]
March 3, 2016	Matt Turner	Fairfield Stags	New England Revolution	SuperDraft[5]
March 3, 2016	Shannon Gomez	W Connection F.C.	New York City FC	Loan[5]
March 3, 2016	Andre Rawls	Wilmington Hammerheads FC	New York City FC	Free[5]
March 3, 2016	Zach Carroll	Michigan State Spartans	New York Red Bulls	SuperDraft[5]
March 3, 2016	Justin Bilyeu	SIU Edwardsville Cougars	New York Red Bulls	SuperDraft[5]
March 4, 2016	Jermaine Jones	New England Revolution	Colorado Rapids	Trade[134]
March 4, 2016	Chris Froschauer	Ohio State Buckeyes	Colorado Rapids	SuperDraft[5]
March 4, 2016	Emmanuel Appiah	Cincinnati Bearcats	Colorado Rapids	SuperDraft[5]
March 4, 2016	Matt Pacifici	Davidson Wildcats	Columbus Crew SC	Free[135]
March 4, 2016	Marshall Hollingsworth	Wheaton Thunder	Columbus Crew SC	SuperDraft[135]
March 4, 2016	Je-Vaughn Watson	FC Dallas	New England Revolution	Trade[5]
March 4, 2016	Kip Colvey	Cal Poly Mustangs	San Jose Earthquakes	SuperDraft[5]
March 5, 2016	Molham Babouli	Toronto FC II	Toronto FC	USL[5]
March 5, 2016	Ariel Lassiter	LA Galaxy II	LA Galaxy	USL[5]
March 7, 2016	Scott Thomsen	New York Red Bulls	Richmond Kickers	Waived[5]
March 8, 2016	Diego Rubio	Real Valladolid	Sporting Kansas City	Loan[136]
March 8, 2016	Tony Alfaro	Cal State Dominguez Hills Toros	Seattle Sounders FC	Waived[5]
March 8, 2016	Damion Lowe	Seattle Sounders FC	Minnesota United FC	Loan[5]
March 9, 2016	Jack Barmby	Leicester City	Portland Timbers	Loan[137]
March 11, 2016	Alex Morrell	North Florida Ospreys	Chicago Fire	Loan[5]
March 11, 2016	Steven Mendoza	Corinthians	New York City FC	Loan[5]
March 11, 2016	Andrew Jacobson	New York City FC	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Trade[5]
March 14, 2016	Darren Mattocks	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Portland Timbers	Trade[5]
March 20, 2016[1]	Tim Howard	Everton	Colorado Rapids	Free[138]
March 23, 2016	Júlio Baptista	Free Agent	Orlando City SC	Free[139]
March 23, 2016	Paul Clowes	D.C. United	Richmond Kickers	Loan[140]
March 23, 2016	Collin Martin	D.C. United	Richmond Kickers	Loan[140]
March 23, 2016	Jalen Robinson	D.C. United	Richmond Kickers	Loan[140]
May 2, 2016	Aurélien Collin	Orlando City SC	New York Red Bulls	Trade[5]
May 4, 2016	Khaly Thiam	MTK	Chicago Fire	Loan[141]
May 10, 2016	Alhaji Kamara	Norrköping	D.C. United	Undisclosed[142]
May 10, 2016	Paul Clowes	D.C. United	Charlotte Independence	Free
May 12, 2016	Kei Kamara	Columbus Crew SC	New England Revolution	Trade
May 17, 2016	Michael de Leeuw	Groningen	Chicago Fire	Trade[143]
May 17, 2016	Cristian Martínez	Chorrillo	Columbus Crew SC	Loan[144]
May 23, 2016	Michael Lahoud	New York Cosmos	Philadelphia Union	Loan end[145]
May 24, 2016	Michael Lahoud	Philadelphia Union	Miami FC	$300,000[145]
June 24, 2016	Karl Ouimette	New York Red Bulls	Jacksonville Armada	Loan[146]
June 24, 2016	Alex Zendejas	FC Dallas	Guadalajara	$500,000[147]
June 29, 2016	Kwadwo Poku	New York City FC	Miami FC	$750,000[148]
June 29, 2016	Zach Steinberger	Houston Dynamo	Jacksonville Armada	Loan[149]
June 30, 2016	Emmanuel Appiah	Colorado Rapids	Sporting Kansas City	Waived[149]
June 30, 2016	Chris Froschauer	Colorado Rapids		Waived[150]
June 30, 2016	Dairon Asprilla	Portland Timbers	Millonarios	Loan[151]
July 5, 2016	Adrian Winter	Orlando City SC	FC Zürich	Undisclosed[152]
July 6, 2016	Chris McCann	Wigan Athletic	Atlanta United FC	Undisclosed[153]
July 6, 2016	Leonel Miranda	Houston Dynamo	Club Atlético Independiente	Loan Return[154]
July 6, 2016	David Rocha	Houston Dynamo	Real Oviedo	Waived[154]
July 7, 2016	Matteo Mancosu	Bologna	Montreal Impact	Loan[155]
July 9, 2016	Getterson	J. Malucelli	FC Dallas	Loan[156]
July 10, 2016	Emil Larsen	Columbus Crew SC	Lyngby BK	Undisclosed[157]
July 12, 2016	Lloyd Sam	New York Red Bulls	D.C. United	Trade[158]
July 12, 2016	Cameron Porter	Montreal Impact	Sporting Kansas City	Trade[159]
July 12, 2016	Amadou Dia	Sporting Kansas City	Montreal Impact	Trade[159]
July 13, 2016	Damien Perquis	Toronto FC	Nottingham Forest	Mutual Contract Termination[160]
July 14, 2016	Vytautas Andriuskevicius	SC Cambuur	Portland Timbers	Undisclosed[161]
July 15, 2016	Sam Adekugbe	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Brighton & Hove Albion	Loan[162]
July 15, 2016	Kenwyne Jones	Cardiff City	Atlanta United FC	Undisclosed[163]
July 16, 2016	Maxime Chanot	K.V. Kortrijk	New York City FC	Undisclosed[164]
July 18, 2016	Adam Larsen Kwarasey	Portland Timbers	Rosenborg	Undisclosed[165]
July 20, 2016	Tosaint Ricketts	Boluspor	Toronto FC	Free[166]
July 20, 2016	Fabián Espíndola	D.C. United	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Trade[167]
July 20, 2016	Patrick Mullins	New York City FC	D.C. United	Undisclosed[167]
July 21, 2016	Nicolai Næss	Stabæk	Columbus Crew SC	Undisclosed[168]
July 21, 2016	Jose Aja	Nacional	Orlando City SC	Loan[169]
July 22, 2016	Pedro Baez	Cerro Porteno	Real Salt Lake	Loan[170]
July 22, 2016	Héctor Villalba	San Lorenzo	Atlanta United FC	Undisclosed[171]
July 22, 2016	Zack Steffen	SC Freiburg	Columbus Crew SC	Undisclosed[172]
July 23, 2016	Hernán Bernardello	Alavés	Montreal Impact	Undisclosed[173]
July 27, 2016	Fabián Espíndola	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Club Necaxa	Undisclosed[174]
July 27, 2016	Nicolás Lodeiro	Boca Juniors	Seattle Sounders FC	Undisclosed[175]
July 28, 2016	Álvaro Fernández	Gimnasia	Seattle Sounders FC	Undisclosed[176]
July 28, 2016	Chris Konopka	Ross County F.C.	Portland Timbers	Free[177]
July 28, 2016	Héctor Villalba	Atlanta United FC	Club Tijuana	Loan[178]
July 29, 2016	Yair Arboleda	Independiente Santa Fe	Houston Dynamo	Loan[179]
July 29, 2016	Kennedy Igboananike	Chicago Fire	D.C. United	Trade[180]
July 30, 2016	Adam Jahn	San Jose Earthquakes	Columbus Crew SC	Trade[181]
July 30, 2016	Giles Barnes	Houston Dynamo	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Trade[182]
August 1, 2016	Steven Taylor	Newcastle United FC	Portland Timbers	Free[183]
August 2, 2016	Norberto Paparatto	Portland Timbers	FC Dallas	Trade[184]
August 2, 2016	Gbenga Arokoyo	Gaziantepspor	Portland Timbers	Undisclosed[185]
August 2, 2016	Chris McCann	Atlanta United FC	Coventry City	Loan[186]
August 3, 2016	Daniel Royer	FC Midtjylland	New York Red Bulls	Undisclosed[187]
August 3, 2016	Alejandro Bedoya	Nantes	Philadelphia Union	Undisclosed[188]
August 3, 2016	Sebastien Le Toux	Philadelphia Union	Colorado Rapids	Trade[189]
August 3, 2016	Luis Solignac	Colorado Rapids	Chicago Fire	Trade[189]
August 3, 2016	Keyner Brown	Herediano	Houston Dynamo	Loan[190]
August 3, 2016	David Arshakyan	FK Trakai	Chicago Fire	Undisclosed[191]
August 3, 2016	Matías Pérez García	San Jose Earthquakes	Orlando City SC	Trade[192]
August 3, 2016	Darwin Ceren	Orlando City SC	San Jose Earthquakes	Trade[192]
August 3, 2016	José Escalante	Rio Grande Valley FC	Houston Dynamo	Loan[193]
August 3, 2016	Omer Damari	RB Leipzig	New York Red Bulls	Loan[194]
August 3, 2016	Charlie Davies	New England Revolution	Philadelphia Union	Trade[195]
August 3, 2016	Fabian Castillo	FC Dallas	Trabzonspor	Loan[196]
August 10, 2016	Auston Trusty	Bethlehem Steel FC	Philadelphia Union	Homegrown Player[197]
August 10, 2016	Henok Goitom	Getafe CF	San Jose Earthquakes	Free[198]
August 18, 2016	Armando Cooper	C.D. Árabe Unido	Toronto FC	Loan[199]
August 18, 2016	Cody Cropper	Southampton F.C.	New England Revolution	Free[200]
August 19, 2016	Jack McBean	Los Angeles Galaxy	Coventry City	Loan[201]
September 3, 2016	Erick Torres	Houston Dynamo	Cruz Azul	Loan[202]
September 15, 2016	Carlos Ruiz	C.S.D. Municipal	FC Dallas	Undisclosed[203]

• ^1 Player officially joined his new club on January 1, 2016.
• ^2 Only rights to player were acquired.
• ^3 Player will officially join his new club on July 4, 2016.