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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 ...
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.
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 ]
[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 ...
Major League Soccer was established in 1993, as part of an agreement with FIFA that the United States set up a professional first division to gain the right to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup. [15] No successful professional outdoor soccer league existed since the North American Soccer League folded in 1985. Due to rapid over-expansion and poor ...
The 2024 Major League Soccer season was the 29th season of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada, and the 46th season overall of a national first-division league in the United States. The league's 29 teams were divided into the Eastern and Western conferences.
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