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Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. [2] It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada , and is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . [ 3 ]
Major League Soccer is the most recent of three professional men's Division 1 national association football leagues with clubs in the United States and Canada. In the US, with no clubs in Canada, the earliest of such leagues was the American Football Association, which was formed in 1884 [6] and allied with The Football Association, becoming a member on February 22, 1909, at an FA meeting ...
[10] [11] It began expanding again in 2005 and more teams built their own soccer-specific stadiums; [12] the league reached 16 teams in 2010 and grew further to 20 teams in 2015 and 26 teams in 2020. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] As of 2024 [update] , 22 of the league's 29 teams play in soccer-specific stadiums that range in capacity from 18,000 to 30,000 ...
Season MLS Cup Winners MLS Cup Runners-up Supporters' Shield Winners Supporters' Shield Runners-up 1996: D.C. United: Los Angeles Galaxy: Tampa Bay Mutiny
On March 15, 1994, Major League Soccer with ESPN and ABC Sports announced the league's first television rights deal without any players, coaches, or teams in place. [57] The three-year agreement committed 10 games on ESPN, 25 on ESPN2, and the MLS Cup on ABC. The deal gave MLS no rights fees but split advertising revenue between the league and ...
The league's 30 teams are divided into the Eastern and Western conferences, which each have 15 teams. The regular season runs from February 22 to October 18 and comprises 34 matches for each team with a schedule that is primarily intra-conference with 6 inter-conference matches per team. [ 4 ]
The following is a timeline of organizational changes in Major League Soccer (MLS), a professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that began play in 1996 with 10 teams and by 2025 will have 30 teams. This article includes expansions, contractions, renamings of clubs and conference realignment.
On March 15, 1994, Major League Soccer with ESPN and ABC Sports announced the league's first television rights deal without any players, coaches, or teams in place. [10] The three-year agreement committed 10 games on ESPN, 25 on ESPN2, and the MLS Cup on ABC. The deal gave MLS no rights fees but split advertising revenue between the league and ...