The 2021 Tacoma Defiance season was the seventh season of the Tacoma Defiance, an American soccer team that played in the USL Championship, the second tier of soccer in the country. It was the fourth season since the club was renamed from Seattle Sounders FC 2 and relocated to Tacoma, Washington. Defiance is majority owned by Seattle Sounders FC, a Major League Soccer team, and serves as their reserve and development squad.
Roster
Out on loan
Competitions
Preseason
Friendlies
USL regular season
Results summary
Results by matchday
Matches
U.S. Open Cup
Due to their ownership by a higher division professional club (Seattle Sounders FC), Tacoma is one of 15 teams expressly forbidden from entering the Cup competition.
Statistics
Appearances and goals
Numbers after plus-sign(+) denote appearances as a substitute.
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Disciplinary record {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" |- | rowspan="2" !width=15| | rowspan="2" !width=15| | rowspan="2" !width=120|Player | colspan="3"|Regular Season | colspan="3"|Playoffs | colspan="3"|Total |- !width=34; background:#fe9;"| !width=34; background:#fe9;"| !width=34; background:#ff8888;"| !width=34; background:#fe9;"| !width=34; background:#fe9;"| !width=34; background:#ff8888;"| !width=34; background:#fe9;"| !width=34; background:#fe9;"| !width=34; background:#ff8888;"| |- || 32 || |FW ||align=left| Alec Díaz || |1|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |1|| |0|| |0 |- || 34 || |MF ||align=left| Danny Robles || |1|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |1|| |0|| |0 |- || 36 || |DF ||align=left| Issa Rayyan || |2|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |2|| |0|| |0 |- || 38 || |MF ||align=left| Azriel Gonzalez || |1|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |1|| |0|| |0 |- || 45 || |DF ||align=left| Alex Villanueva || |1|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |1|| |0|| |0 |- || 72 || |DF ||align=left| Eric Kinzner || |3|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |3|| |0|| |0 |- || 73 || |MF ||align=left| Obed Vargas || |2|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |2|| |0|| |0 |- || 74 || |DF ||align=left| Taylor Mueller || |2|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |2|| |0|| |0 |- || 77 || |MF ||align=left| Sota Kitahara || |1|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |1|| |0|| |0 |- || 80 || |MF ||align=left| Ray Serrano || |1|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |1|| |0|| |0 |- || 81 || |DF ||align=left| Randy Mendoza || |4|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |4|| |0|| |0 |- || 87 || |MF ||align=left| Alfonso Ocampo-Chavez || |1|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |1|| |0|| |0 |- || 88 || |MF ||align=left| Carlos Anguiano || |4|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |4|| |0|| |0 |- || 99 || |MF ||align=left| Tom Brewitt || |1|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |0|| |1|| |0|| |0
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Honors and awards
Team of the Week WeekPlayerOpponentPositionRef3 Abdoulaye Cissoko LA Galaxy II DF4 Issa Rayyan San Diego Loyal SC DF10 Ray Serrano LA Galaxy II MF
Transfers
For transfers in, dates listed are when Tacoma Defiance officially signed the players to the roster. Transactions where only the rights to the players are acquired are not listed. For transfers out, dates listed are when Defiance officially removed the players from its roster, not when they signed with another club. If a player later signed with another club, his new club will be noted, but the date listed here remains the one when he was officially removed from Tacoma Defiance roster.
In
No.Pos.PlayerTransferred fromFee/notesDateSource43 Sounders FC Academy 64 Oakland Roots SC 66 Portland Timbers 2 98 Atlas Delmenhorst 99 Morecambe FC 81 Stumptown AC 36 Philadelphia Union II 82 Sounders FC Academy
Out
No.Pos.PlayerTransferred toFee/notesDateSource87 Seattle Sounders FC Returned via season ending loan 45 Seattle Sounders FC Returned via season ending loan 65 Toronto FC II Returned via season ending loan 31 Nashville SC Option declined 97 Austin Bold FC Option declined 98 Altona Magic SC Option declined 81 Southern States SC Option declined 90 Dundalk Option declined 33 OKC Energy FC Out of contract 21 Seattle Sounders FC Homegrown player signing 92 Seattle Sounders FC Homegrown player signing 38 FC Edmonton On loan until the end of season
References