Major League Soccer was founded in 1993 as part of the United States’ successful bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The league comprises 26 teams – 23 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada – and will expand to 30 teams by the 2023 season. The MLS regular season typically starts in late February or early March and runs through mid-October, with each team playing 34 games.
About Major League Soccer in brief
Major League Soccer was founded in 1993 as part of the United States’ successful bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The league comprises 26 teams – 23 in the U. S. and 3 in Canada – and will expand to 30 teams by the 2023 season. The MLS regular season typically starts in late February or early March and runs through mid-October, with each team playing 34 games. The team with the best record is awarded the Supporters’ Shield. Eighteen teams compete in the postseason MLS Cup Playoffs in late October and November, culminating in the league’s championship game, the MLS Cup. With an average attendance of over 20,000 per game, MLS has the third-highest average Attendance of any professional sports league in theU.S. after the National Football League and Major League Baseball. MLS teams also play in other international and domestic competitions, including the CONCACAF Champions League and U.S.-based MLS teams qualify based on the highest point results from the previous year’s regular-season results. The third-place team in the previous season is the Supporter’s Shield champion. The reigning MLS Cup champion is the reigning MLS A -based MLS team that has not qualified for the Canadian Championship. If a team qualifies through multiple berths, or if any of the three MLS berths are taken by a team based in Canada, the highest-placed team is re-allocated to the MLS Championship. The current MLS A-based team is the Toronto FC, which is the fourth-highest-ranked team overall in the regular season and has won the Cup three times in the last four years.
The 2014 MLS Cup was the first MLS Cup to be won by a Canadian team, Toronto FC (Toronto FC). The MLS Cup final is held in New York City and features the MLS All-Stars against an all-star team from Mexico’s Liga MX, before the event’s cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The final is played in front of a crowd of more than 100,000 people at the MLS Stadium in New Jersey. The game is the only one of its kind in the world, and the first in which the All-Star Game is played against a team from a different country. The 2020 season will be the first season in league history in which teams will not play against every other team in their conference. With 27 teams in 2021, each team plays two games, home and away, against every team in its conference and one game against all but four or five of the teams in the opposite conference. MLS is one of the world’s few soccer leagues that does not use promotion and relegation. Unlike most major soccer leagues around the. world, but similar to other leagues in the Americas, the league is followed by a postseason knockout tournament to determine the league champion. There are no current plans to change its schedule, but a winter break would be necessary to accommodate teams located in harsh winter climates. The spring-to-fall schedule results in scheduling conflicts with the FIFA calendar and with summertime international tournaments such as the World Cup and the Gold Cup, causing some players to miss league matches.
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