MLS Cup—Saturday, Dec. 7 2024 MLS Cup Playoffs Format Wild Card Round The action starts off in the Wild Card with the eighth and ninth placed teams in both conferences facing off to decide who takes on the number one overall seed in Round One. Round One Like we saw in 2023, the bes...
2024 MLS Cup Playoffs: Format, dates A whopping 18 of Major League Soccer’s 29 franchises make the postseason, but the field was trimmed to 16 quickly before the first round gives the favorites some leeway. Wild card round, October 23: 8th vs 9th place in each conference, single-eliminat...
For those who, like Vanney, are not fans of the current playoff format, history offers this consolation: just be patience because chances are it’s about to change. ⚽You have read the latest installment of On Soccer with Kevin Baxter. The weekly column takes you behind the scenes and s...
Each MLS NEXT Pro club will play 28 matches over 27 weeks – an increase from 24 matches per club in 2022 – including 14 matches at home and 14 on the road. All but one of the 27 clubs will compete in Decision Day 2023 – the final regular-season matchday – on Sunday, September ...
MLS Changes Playoff FormatByline: Kent McDill Daily Herald Sports Writer Major League Soccer fans will have to find...McDill, Kent
Major League Soccer is returning to the sort of postseason format with which American fans will be intimately familiar: a best-of-three series. At least for Round 1. Higher seeds can expect two home playoff matches in this round, should they need them, before the conference semifinals, confe...
Soccer Confusing MLS playoff format a source of frustration for LAFC and Galaxy Oct. 29, 2024 The second-seeded Galaxy took a 2-1 lead into halftime when Paintsil took a pass from Maya Yoshida in the third minute of stoppage time and scored his first postseason goal. Yoshida’s assist ...
Not all things in life are easily imagined. But in the end, that three-match bout between Columbus Crew and Atlanta United matched its high-drama expectation. One of just three match-ups to require the full three games to settle a victor in Major League Soccer's new p...
2024 MLS Playoff Glance All Times EDT Wild Card Eastern Conference Tuesday, Oct. 22: Montreal vs. Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. Western Conference Wednesday, Oct. 23: Vancouver vs. Portland, 10:30 p.m. First Round Best of 3 x-if necessary...
A new Major League Soccer season will kick off on Saturday with24 teams for Year 24. That’s the most number of teams in league history. But in addition to a new team in Cincinnati, there’s a lot of new things around the league. ...