Major League Soccer
Professional soccer league in the United States and Canada
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2025 | Construction begins on the new Chicago Fire Stadium in Chicago, Illinois, with a planned capacity of 22,000 seats and a grass playing surface. |
2025 | Snapdragon Stadium is set to become the home stadium for San Diego FC, expanding the league's presence in California. |
June 7 2025 | Tom Barlow's Chicago Fire FC suffers a heavy 1-7 away defeat to D.C. United |
2025 | MLS begins assigning commentators in English and Spanish to work remotely from NEP Vista Worldlink in Dania Beach, Florida, transitioning from on-site commentary. |
June 2025 | MLS season pauses for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup, with Seattle Sounders FC, Inter Miami CF, and Los Angeles FC participating. |
2025 | MLS continues its partnership with Apple TV, maintaining comprehensive coverage with multiple language commentary teams for English, Spanish, and French broadcasts. |
May 27 2025 | St. Louis City SC fires Olof Mellberg and appoints David Critchley as interim head coach |
2025 | Stefan Frei is projected to continue playing in MLS, having played 419 games across two teams. |
2025 | Darlington Nagbe is projected to continue playing in MLS, having played 428 games across three teams. |
2025 | Kei Kamara is projected to end his MLS career after playing 447 games across multiple teams. |
2025 | MLS reaches 30 teams, demonstrating substantial growth from its original 10-team structure since 1996. |
2025 | Projected MLS valuation reaches $721 million, indicating expected continued growth and financial potential of the league. |
May 10 2025 | Argentina's Martín Ojeda helps Orlando City SC achieve a 3-3 home draw with New England Revolution |
April 26 2025 | England's Sam Surridge leads Nashville SC to a remarkable 7-2 home triumph against Chicago Fire FC |
April 19 2025 | Cleveland hosted its first MLS regular season game at Huntington Bank Field, with the Columbus Crew and Inter Miami CF playing, drawing 60,614 fans. |
2025 | Charlotte FC signs a match rebroadcast agreement with WAXN-TV, marking the first such agreement since 2022. |
2025 | FC Dallas signs a match rebroadcast agreement with KDFI, marking the first such agreement since 2022. |
2025 | FC Dallas and Charlotte FC establish local broadcast agreements with KDFI and WAXN-TV respectively, marking the first such local rebroadcast agreements since 2022. |
2025 | New commentator pairings were established for English, Spanish, and French broadcasts of MLS matches. |
2025 | Major League Soccer announced international broadcasting agreements with SBS (Australia), Dubai TV (Middle East), TV3 (Spain), Sportdigital (Germany), and SkyK (South Korea) to air Sunday Night Soccer matches. |
2025 | TSN and RDS continue their four-year broadcasting deal, securing exclusive linear television rights for Major League Soccer in Canada. During this season, they will broadcast 41 MLS matches. |
2025 | DirecTV and Xfinity begin distributing MLS Season Pass to residential customers via their cable services for the first time. |
2025 | Fox Sports continues its four-year broadcasting deal for MLS games, airing 34 matches during the season: 19 on Fox Sports 1 and 15 on Fox in English, with all 34 matches also broadcast in Spanish on Fox Deportes. |
April 12 2025 | United States's Brian White scores in Vancouver Whitecaps FC's 5-1 home victory against Austin FC |
April 6 2025 | Venezuela's Josef Martínez leads San Jose Earthquakes to a commanding 6-1 home win over D.C. United |
April 6 2025 | San Jose Earthquakes host D.C. United in a commemorative match celebrating the league's 30th anniversary, referencing the inaugural MLS match between these two teams. |
March 31 2025 | Sporting Kansas City parted ways with Peter Vermes by mutual consent, with Kerry Zavagnin appointed as interim head coach |
2025 | The National Soccer League (NSL) launches with five new professional teams: Calgary Wild FC, Halifax Tides FC, Montreal Roses FC, Ottawa Rapid FC, and AFC Toronto. |
March 24 2025 | CF Montréal fires Laurent Courtois and appoints Marco Donadel as interim head coach. |
March 1 2025 | Israel's Tai Baribo leads Philadelphia Union to a dominant 4-1 home victory against FC Cincinnati. |
February 22 2025 | 2025 Major League Soccer season begins, with the league now expanded to 30 clubs including new team San Diego FC. |
February 22 2025 | Start of the 2025 Major League Soccer regular season, featuring 30 teams divided across Eastern and Western conferences, with each team scheduled to play 34 matches. |
January 28 2025 | MLS announced new competition regulations for the 2025 season, determining team qualifications for various cup competitions. |
January 14 2025 | Jesper Sørensen is appointed as head coach of Vancouver Whitecaps FC. |
January 10 2025 | Robin Fraser is appointed as head coach of Toronto FC. |
January 6 2025 | New York City FC appoints Pascal Jansen as head coach. |
January 2 2025 | Bradley Carnell is appointed as head coach of Philadelphia Union. |
2024 | Construction is set to start on Etihad Park, the new stadium for New York City FC in Queens, New York, with a planned capacity of 25,000 seats and a grass playing surface. |
2024 | Major League Soccer (MLS) tracks attendance across various metro areas, with teams ranking in different categories based on their average spectator numbers during the regular season. |
2024 | Dax McCarty is projected to conclude his MLS career, having played 488 games across six different teams. |
2024 | MLS will send eight teams to participate in the U.S. Open Cup, with MLS Next Pro teams representing some clubs, marking a change from previous years. |
2024 | MLS ranks second in most attended soccer leagues globally, behind only the Premier League. |
2024 | Major League Soccer broadcasting on Fox/Fox Deportes/Season Pass with viewers decreasing to 0.5 million, with rating data not available |
2024 | Montréal became the sole French-language broadcast for Apple. |
2024 | Major League Soccer recorded an average attendance of 23,234 spectators per game across 29 teams and 493 total games in the 2024 season, ranking third among North American professional sports leagues in attendance. |
2024 | UFL produced an average higher than 10,000 spectators for its season, with two teams achieving season averages of more than 10,000 fans. |
2024 | Greg Vanney won the MLS Cup. |
2024 | End of Major League Soccer regular season, updating the list of most coaching wins and postseason wins for MLS coaches. |
2024 | NWSL and UFL were included in attendance comparisons for the first time, having reached over 10,000 spectators per game average. |
2024 | Inter Miami CF tied the record for most road points in a regular season with 37 points (11 wins, 2 draws, 4 losses). |
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