In February 2017, MLS lifted its policy to not publicly disclose the figures of allocation money involved in intra-league trades, allowing for greater transparency.
[53] Amobi Okugo was one of the first players to be signed by the club using allocation money ahead of the inaugural 2015 season, costing a reported $100,000 from Philadelphia Union in December 2014.
In July 2017, Orlando set a record for a trade between two MLS teams when they sent $1,600,000 in allocation money to Sporting Kansas City for Dom Dwyer.
Colmán's fee stood as a record for four years until Orlando, under new ownership by the Wilf family, spent $9,000,000 on 21-year-old Uruguay international Facundo Torres.
The record increased to $4,000,000 when Yoshimar Yotún was sold at the end of the 2018 season to Mexican club Cruz Azul.
Another draft pick, Daryl Dike, broke that record in January 2022 when his sale to West Bromwich Albion amounted to $9,500,000.
That stood until December 2024 when Facundo Torres, Orlando's record purchase three years earlier, was sold for $14,000,000 to Palmeiras.
While the group stage games were counted towards the MLS regular season standings, the knockout round fixtures were not.