2024 Major League Soccer Season
 

starts February 21 to October 19


Eastern Conference

Atlanta United: Gonzalo Pineda (MEX)
Chicago Fire FC: Frank Klopas (USA)
FC Cincinnati: Pat Noonan (USA)
Charlotte FC: Dean Smith (ENG)
Columbus Crew: Wilfried Nancy (FRA)
DC United: TBA
Inter Miami: Gerardo Martino (ARG)
CF Montreal: TBA
Nashville SC: Gary Smith (ENG)
New England Revolution: Caleb Porter (USA)
New York City FC: Nick Cushing (ENG)
New York Red Bulls: Sandro Schwarz (GER)
Orlando City SC: Oscar Pareja (COL)
Philadelphia Union: Jim Curtin (USA)
Toronto FC: John Herdman (ENG)


Western Conference

Austin FC: Josh Wolff (USA)
Colorado Rapids: Chris Armas (USA)
FC Dallas: Nico Estevez (ESP)
Houston Dynamo: Ben Olsen (USA)
LA Galaxy: Greg Vanney (USA)
Los Angeles FC: Steve Cherundolo (USA)
Minnesota United: TBA
Portland Timbers: Phil Neville (ENG)
Real Salt Lake: Pablo Mastroeni (USA)
San Jose Earthquakes: Luchi Gonzalez (USA)
Seattle Sounders SC: Brian Schmetzer (USA)
Sporting Kansas City: Peter Vermes (USA)
St Louis City SC: Bradley Carnell (RSA)
Vancouver Whitecaps: Vanni Sartini (ITA)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_M..._Soccer_season



no new teams for 2024, however for 2025 San Diego FC will make its debut and bringing the total up to 30 teams https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/...eam-debut-2025

2nd season of the 10 year partnership of Apple-MLS deal
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/15/footb...ntl/index.html


reigning champions (2023)

Supporters Shield: FC Cincinnati
MLS Cup: Columbus Crew



46th season overall of a national first-division league in the United States.

former premier league player for Aston Villa, Burnley

Ashley Westwood also at Charlotte FC alongside Dean Smith as the captain there, whom previously played under Smith at Villa

am curious how Inter Miami & Messi will get on now, but honestly i think it'll be very tough for them considering the US have such a strong league now


i think Philadelphia Union, FC Cincinnati, LAFC are up there as the usual contenders, Columbus Crew not to underestimate

St Louis City in their 2nd season, hoping they'll do slightly better than last season also if they make it once again in the cup playoffs not immediately getting eliminated there


Atlanta United is a powerhouse in terms of huge budget


the New York teams, City kinda better than Red Bulls

amazing that San Diego will also be having its own team :love:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...g?format=1500w

their venue

I’ve got a 7 day free trial for Apple TV so I’m gonna wait for the season to start and then use it to watch the first lot of fixtures. I did a manager mode on fifa before and created my own team for MLS and I liked the way that league is structured so I wanna try and watch MLS games if I can.

I’ll be following Orlando City, Vancouver Whitecaps and New England Revolution.

San Diego FC has a british-egyptian billionaire owner btw :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohame...r_(businessman)

https://english.ahram.org.eg/Media/N...714763-471.jpg

37 yr old goalkeeper Hugo Lloris moving to LAFC after 11 and a half years at Tottenham Hotspur

my fave teams: Philadelphia Union, Columbus Crew and i also like LAFC i guess (Cherundolo is a great manager)

i also like the US National Team, quite a strong generation currently

women's of course still better but the men's is also getting there


with the likes of the Aaronson brothers, Malik Tillman, Ricardo Pepi, Sergino Dest, ex Arsenal youth talent Balogun :D Giovanni Reyna (one of best midfielders in the world by the media)


Berhalter is a decent coach too and also nice one with a dutch past is their head coach now, from his career days in Zwolle, Sparta, Cambuur to where he is now :flutter:

San Diego FC are already preparing for next season

they want to sign Hirving Lozano from PSV



and where San Diego is the newest addition as of 2025 season, it won't be the last addition to the MLS either, apparently Las Vegas Lights are still in talks to also join the league



San Diego has such a amazing venue, where their rugby team also plays btw

Messi in his prime slay mode currently :D

was player of the month April


Inter Miami currently first place of eastern conference



Real Salt Lake in first place of western conference


but tbh doesn't say anything about who's on top of league now, what matters more in the cup phase, even the 8th ranked teams can win the mls

Dean Smith doing not too badly as manager of Charlotte FC so far, 6th place in eastern conference :)

Inter Miami top of the table in eastern conference and also in the overall table, with 35 points


although this does not say much at all who will eventually win the title :laugh: more like aussie rugby league, even those who finish 7th/8th/9th can become champions


its like playing chess, doing just enough to make it to those mls cup playoffs





player of the month awards this season

February/March: Luis Suarez (Inter Miami)
April: Lionel Messi (Inter Miami)
May: Luciano Acosta (FC Cincinnati)



most clean sheets so far

Kristijan Kahlina (Charlotte FC) & Hugo Lloris (LAFC) 7



most assists so far

Lionel Messi (Inter Miami) 13


top goalscorer so far

1. Cristian Arango (Real Salt Lake) 16
2. Christian Benteke (DC United) 13
3. Lionel Messi (Inter Miami) 12
4. Luis Suarez (Inter Miami) 12
5. Denis Bouanga (LAFC) 10
6. Daniel Gazdag (Philadelphia Union) 10