The 2015 Houston Dynamo season was the club's tenth season of existence, and their first under new head coach Owen Coyle.
Club
Roster As of August 17, 2015.
No.PositionNationPlayer
Transfers
In Squad #PositionPlayerTransferred fromDateSource28MF Memo Rodriguez Houston Dynamo YouthDecember 4, 201431GK Joe Willis D.C. UnitedDecember 8, 2014DF Samuel Inkoom D.C. UnitedDecember 8, 201417FW Chandler Hoffman LA GalaxyDecember 18, 20146MF Nathan Sturgis Chivas USADecember 18, 20149FW Erick Torres C.D. GuadalajaraDecember 23, 20145DF Raúl Rodríguez RCD EspanyolJanuary 9, 201521MF Zach Steinberger Butler BulldogsJanuary 15, 20153MF Rob Lovejoy North Carolina Tar HeelsJanuary 15, 201522DF Taylor Hunter Denver PioneersJanuary 20, 201514MF Alex Chicago FireApril 13, 201520MF Rasheed Olabiyi EnyimbaJuly 9, 201522DF Sheanon Williams Philadelphia UnionJuly 23, 2015MF Christian Lucatero Houston Dynamo YouthAugust 18, 2015
Out Squad #PositionPlayerTransferred toDateSourceDF Eric Brunner RetiredDF Anthony Arena Pittsburgh RiverhoundsNovember 25, 2014FW Omar Cummings San Antonio ScorpionsNovember 25, 2014FW Brian Ownby Richmond KickersNovember 25, 2014MF Bryan SalazarNovember 25, 2014MF Servando Carrasco Sporting Kansas CityNovember 25, 2014FW Andrew Driver D.C. UnitedDecember 8, 2014GK Tally Hall Orlando City SCDecember 8, 2014FW Mark Sherrod Orlando City SCDecember 10, 2014FW Jason Johnson Chicago FireApril 13, 2015DF Corey Ashe Orlando City SCJuly 15, 2015
Loan in Squad #PositionPlayerLoaned fromDateSource33FW Leonel Miranda IndependienteJanuary 8, 2015Mirando joins Houston on loan - mlssoccer.com
Loan out Squad #PositionPlayerLoaned toDateSource9FW Erick Torres C.D. GuadalajaraDecember 23, 201418MF Memo Rodriguez Charleston BatteryMarch 20, 201522DF Taylor Hunter Colorado Springs SwitchbacksApril 11, 2015
Competitions
Preseason
MLS
Schedule
Standings
Western Conference Table
Overall Table
U.S. Open Cup
Houston will enter the 2015 U.S. Open Cup with the rest of Major League Soccer in the fourth round.
Friendlies
Statistical Leaders
GoalsName#1Will Bruin112Ricardo Clark83Giles Barnes74Brad Davis45Boniek Garcia3 AssistsName#1Brad Davis102Boniek Garcia53Will Bruin44Alexander Lopez3Giles Barnes Appearances (starts)Name#1Will Bruin33 (28)2David Horst32 (28)3Ricardo Clark30 (30)4Brad Davis30 (29)5Luis Garido29 (21)
Uniforms
Television For the 2015 season, Root Sports Southwest serves as the English broadcaster of all 22 non-national Major League Soccer matches. The one-year deal with ROOT SPORTS' regional network includes a 30-minute pregame and postgame show for each game. Games and weekly programing had aired the previous two seasons on Comcast SportsNet Houston, which was purchased out of bankruptcy court by DirecTV and AT&T in October 2014 and rebranded as Root Sports Southwest.
Root Sports initially cancelled the three-year deal signed in 2013 with CSN Houston before agreeing on this new deal with the Dynamo. In comparison, the Dynamo lose airtime by way of a weekly show and daily coverage on CSN's daily newscast but gained a higher distribution to homes in Houston that weren't subscribed to Comcast and therefore did not have access to Comcast's exclusive sports network.
On the Spanish side, Telemundo Houston returns as the Dynamo's broadcast partner for the second consecutive season. The Telemundo-owned Houston station signed up for 10 Dynamo games in 2015, a three-game increase from the 2014 season. Five of those matches will air live on TeleXitos, available over-the-air on KTMD's secondary channel 47.2, and select games on TeleXitos include a 30-minute pregame and a 30-minute postgame show. Games on Telemundo, channel 47.1, air deferred at 11 p.m. on the night of the match due to scheduling conflicts with national programming (of which includes Telemundo's home games telecast of Liga MX sides León and Pachuca).
The remaining 12 games of the regular-season will be carried by MLS' national TV partners, including 8 on the Univision family of networks, which shows the Dynamo's appeal to a national Hispanic audience due to its Honduran trio (Boniek, Garrido and López) and the addition of Mexican international Erick Torres.
See also Houston Dynamo 2015 in American soccer 2015 Major League Soccer season
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