Format
- Only one player could be selected from each team. Two of the league's 12 teams did not have a player selected.
- Teams were allowed to protect 11 players from their 28-man rosters. Generation adidas players were automatically protected, though players who had graduated from the program to the senior roster at the end of the 2006 season were not.
- Each team could only leave one senior international player unprotected.
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