The 2020 Tacoma Defiance season is the club's sixth year of existence, formerly as Seattle Sounders FC 2, and their sixth season in the USL Championship, the second tier of the United States Soccer Pyramid. This is the 3rd season of the soccer team playing in Tacoma, Washington. Defiance is majority owned by Seattle Sounders FC.
Current roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality. Squad correct as of December 15, 2020.[1]
Note: A covered person within the Portland Timbers 2 organization has shown symptoms for COVID-19 so the match has been postponed.[3] Match rescheduled from 8/30 to 9/9.
Note: Due to positive COVID-19 tests in the Reno squad this match was moved from October 3rd. Due to a positive test in the Defiance squad the matched was moved from 9/16.
Note: Originally schedule as a match in Tacoma on 7/23 that match was postponed due to positive COVID-19 tests in the Reno squad and then move/switch with the away match with Reno.
Due to their ownership by a higher division professional club (Seattle Sounders), Tacoma is one of 15 teams expressly forbidden from entering the Cup competition.[5]
Statistics
Appearances and goals
Numbers after plus-sign(+) denote appearances as a substitute.
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.