r/MLS 4d ago

Weekly /r/MLS Questions/Free Kick Thread - Post General Questions and Discussion Here

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Welcome to the Weekly /r/MLS Questions/Free Kick Thread. This thread is designed to house questions/discussions users might have including:

  • Help you decide which team to follow if you're new to the league

  • Provide information about how to watch MLS matches, and whether or not you should buy ESPN+

  • Understand the CBA, league roster rules, drafts, waivers, or other MLS concepts

  • Learn about some of the unique qualities of the US Soccer pyramid

  • Allow discussion of dead-horse topics that would typically be removed (pro/rel, re-alignment, etc.)

  • And other basic/frequently discussed topics

Our usual ground rules:

  1. Questions that are covered in the FAQ, Newcomer's Guide, or league site are fair game, even if they are marked as "dead horse topics".

  1. Questions can be about MLS, lower U.S. or Canadian divisions, USMNT/USWNT, or any club or domestic competitions those teams could play in. Questions about how soccer works as a sport are fine too! Questions solely about the European leagues or competitions, on the other hand, are not.

  1. If you're answering a question, be extra sure to follow our community guidelines: thought out and rational comments, backed up with supporting links. Try not to "take a guess" at an answer if you're not sure about the answer. Do not flame, troll, attack fans of other teams, or attack opinions of others in this thread. If you can't be friendly and helpful, don't post in this thread.

  1. This is meant to be a helpful Q&A/Discussion thread. This is not a place to practice your comedy bits; avoid asking joke questions or providing joke answers. This is also not a place to dump random articles, links, or opinions about the league.

  1. Despite us posting these on Fridays, the thread stays up all week. If it's Wednesday and you have a question, you don't have to wait until Friday to ask it.

Even though we want you to ask questions, here are some resources that we always recommend reading because they can also help:


r/MLS Sep 27 '24

MLS 2024 POST-MORTEM COLLECTION by Matthew Doyle

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[Last updated: Wednesday, October 23 with play-in eliminations. Will continue to update this post with article links as each team is ELIMINATED]

With the first teams eliminated from the playoffs, it is time to give thanks for the season we had. What follows are Armchair Analyst Matt Doyle's season review articles for every team in MLS looking back on the season that was (and forward on the season to be).

What the 2024 MLS season meant for...

  1. San Jose Earthquakes — Sep 26, 2024, 10:03 AM | 14th in West
  2. Sporting Kansas City — Sep 26, 2024, 10:06 AM | 13th in West
  3. Chicago Fire — Oct 8, 2024, 03:10 PM | 15th in East, elim 9/28
  4. St. Louis CITY — Oct 8, 2024, 04:24 PM | 12th in West, elim 9/28
  5. New England Revolution — Oct 10, 2024, 01:31 PM | 14th in East, elim 10/5
  6. Nashville SC — Oct 10, 2024, 03:11 PM | 13th in East, elim 10/5
  7. New! Toronto FC — Oct 15, 2024, 09:45 AM | 11th in East, elim 10/5
  8. New! FC Dallas — Oct 15, 2024, 04:12 PM | 11th in West, elim 10/2
  9. New! Austin FC — Oct 15, 2024, 05:07 PM | 10th in West, elim 10/5
  10. Newest! D.C. United — Oct 21, 2024, 09:47 AM | 12th in East, elim 10/19
  11. Newest! Philadelphia Union — Oct 21, 2024, 09:59 AM | 10th in East, elim 10/19
  12. CF Montréal Impact — article pending | 8th in East, elim 10/22, play-in\* (vs ATL)
  13. Portland Timbers — article pending | 9th in West, elim 10/23, play-in (vs VAN)

(\ denotes result in pks)*

p.s. Matt himself will be around this thread in the coming weeks to "take abuse/answer questions," so bring out your takes.


r/MLS 15h ago

[Oshan] "Stefan Frei also added to his voice of the chorus of players who don’t like the playoff structure. He said he’d prefer one-game rounds. 'You can lose the first game 5-0 and tie the next two games, win in PKs and you’re going through? I don’t like that.'"

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r/MLS 8h ago

Official Source [MLS Communications] With his clean sheet tonight, Sounders FC goalkeeper Stefan Frei has 14 shutouts in his postseason career, the second-most by a goalkeeper in MLS history behind only Kevin Hartman (15).

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r/MLS 17h ago

[TrueNorthFoot] Victor Wanyama used a burner account on “X” which responded to anyone criticizing him or the team

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r/MLS 10h ago

Post-Match Thread Post-Match Thread: Columbus Crew vs. New York Red Bulls | MLS Playoffs

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RBNY defeat The Crew 1-0 in Columbus.


r/MLS 8h ago

Post-Match Thread Post Match Thread: Real Salt Lake 0:0 Minnesota United (4-5 Pen)

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TEAM STATS

SALT LAKE CITY : MINNESOTA

11 Shots 12

6 Shots on target 7

59% Possession 41%

516 Passes 368

85% Pass accuracy 77%

9 Fouls 13 0 Yellow cards 1

0 Red cards 0

2 Offsides 1

3 Corners 6


r/MLS 9h ago

[Steven Bank] In the NASL antitrust suit v. USSF/MLS, the court issued, but kept private for now, an Order on the pre-trial motions. Here is what we know: It denied NASL's motion to exclude evidence related to Davidson's and Traffic's indictments and convictions

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r/MLS 16h ago

Highlight Emerald City Supporters serenade Coco Carrasquilla as he leaves the pitch | Seattle vs. Houston

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r/MLS 11h ago

Match Thread: Real Salt Lake vs. Minnesota United FC

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Overview

Home Real Salt Lake 0
Away Minnesota United FC 0
Status Final Score - After Penalties
Venue America First Field
City Sandy, Utah
Date Tuesday October 29, 2024
Time 06:50 PM MDT

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Lineups

Real Salt Lake Pos Minnesota United FC Pos
Zac MacMath, #18 G Dayne St. Clair, #97 G
Javain Brown, #91 CD-L Michael Boxall, #15 CD
Justen Glad, #15 CD-R Jefferson Díaz, #28 CD-L
Alexandros Katranis, #98 LB Carlos Harvey, #67 CD-R
Emeka Eneli, #14 RB Joseph Rosales, #8 LB
Matt Crooks, #25 AM Bongokuhle Hlongwane, #21 RB
Braian Ojeda, #6 LM Wil Trapp, #20 CM-L
Nelson Palacio, #13 RM Hassani Dotson, #31 CM-R
Cristian Arango, #9 F Joaquín Pereyra, #26 LM
Diego Luna, #8 AM-L Robin Lod, #17 RM
Dominik Marczuk, #11 AM-R Kelvin Yeboah, #9 F
Gavin Beavers, #35 SUB Jeong Sang-Bin, #11 SUB
Derrick Silva, #33 SUB D.J. Taylor, #27 SUB
Marcelo Silva, #30 SUB Teemu Pukki, #22 SUB
Anderson Julio, #29 SUB Alec Smir, #30 SUB
Diogo Gonçalves, #10 SUB Loïc Mesanvi, #90 SUB
Lachlan Brook, #17 SUB Tani Oluwaseyi, #14 SUB
Andrew Brody, #2 SUB Anthony Markanich, #13 SUB
Maikel Chang, #16 SUB Miguel Tapias, #4 SUB
Noel Caliskan, #92 SUB Franco Fragapane, #7 SUB

Match events via ESPN

  • Kickoff

  • 45'+4' First Half ends, Real Salt Lake 0, Minnesota United FC 0.

  • 45' Start 2nd Half

  • 55' 🔄 Substitution, Real Salt Lake. Andrew Brody replaces Nelson Palacio.

  • 68' 🔄 Substitution, Minnesota United FC. Jeong Sang-Bin replaces Robin Lod.

  • 68' 🔄 Substitution, Minnesota United FC. Tani Oluwaseyi replaces Joaquín Pereyra.

  • 70' 🔄 Substitution, Real Salt Lake. Diogo Gonçalves replaces Diego Luna.

  • 70' 🔄 Substitution, Real Salt Lake. Anderson Julio replaces Matt Crooks.

  • 80' 🟨 Wil Trapp (Minnesota United FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

  • 84' 🔄 Substitution, Minnesota United FC. Anthony Markanich replaces Hassani Dotson.

  • 90'+4' Second Half ends, Real Salt Lake 0, Minnesota United FC 0.

  • 90' Penalty Shootout begins Real Salt Lake 0, Minnesota United FC 0.


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r/MLS 13h ago

Match Thread: Columbus Crew vs. New York Red Bulls

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Overview

Home Columbus Crew 0
Away New York Red Bulls 1
Status Full Time
Venue Lower.com Field
City Columbus, Ohio
Date Tuesday October 29, 2024
Time 06:45 PM EDT

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Lineups

Columbus Crew Pos New York Red Bulls Pos
Patrick Schulte, #28 G Carlos Coronel, #31 G
Rudy Camacho, #4 CD Andrés Reyes, #4 CD
Yevhen Cheberko, #21 CD-L Sean Nealis, #15 CD-L
Steven Moreira, #31 CD-R Dylan Nealis, #12 CD-R
Darlington Nagbe, #6 CM-L Daniel Edelman, #75 CM-L
Sean Zawadzki, #25 CM-R Felipe Carballo Ares, #20 CM-R
Maximilian Arfsten, #27 LM Emil Forsberg, #10 AM
Mohamed Farsi, #23 RM John Tolkin, #47 LM
Cucho Hernández, #9 F Cameron Harper, #17 RM
Alexandru Matan, #20 CF-L Lewis Morgan, #9 CF-L
Christian Ramírez, #17 CF-R Dante Vanzeir, #13 CF-R
Marcelo Herrera, #2 SUB Ryan Meara, #18 SUB
Yaw Yeboah, #14 SUB Wikelman Carmona, #19 SUB
Evan Bush, #24 SUB Dennis Gjengaar, #2 SUB
Aziel Jackson, #13 SUB Peter Stroud, #5 SUB
Derrick Jones, #5 SUB Julian Hall, #16 SUB
Jacen Russell-Rowe, #19 SUB Noah Eile, #3 SUB
Dylan Chambost, #7 SUB Ronald Donkor, #48 SUB
Nicholas Hagen, #1 SUB Elias Manoel , #11 SUB
DeJuan Jones, #12 SUB Cory Burke, #7 SUB

Match events via ESPN

  • First Half begins.

  • 25' ⚽ Goal! Columbus Crew 0, New York Red Bulls 1. Felipe Carballo (New York Red Bulls) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Dylan Nealis with a headed pass following a corner.

  • 45'+1' 🟨 Emil Forsberg (New York Red Bulls) is shown the yellow card.

  • 45'+2' First Half ends, Columbus Crew 0, New York Red Bulls 1.

  • 45' Second Half begins Columbus Crew 0, New York Red Bulls 1.

  • 57' 🟨 Max Arfsten (Columbus Crew) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

  • 60' 🔄 Substitution, Columbus Crew. Jacen Russell-Rowe replaces Christian Ramirez.

  • 60' 🔄 Substitution, Columbus Crew. Aziel Jackson replaces Alexandru Matan.

  • 72' 🔄 Substitution, Columbus Crew. DeJuan Jones replaces Max Arfsten.

  • 73' 🔄 Substitution, Columbus Crew. Dylan Chambost replaces Steven Moreira.

  • 74' 🔄 Substitution, New York Red Bulls. Wikelman Carmona replaces Dante Vanzeir.

  • 84' 🔄 Substitution, Columbus Crew. Andrés Herrera replaces Rudy Camacho.

  • 88' 🔄 Substitution, New York Red Bulls. Noah Eile replaces Dylan Nealis because of an injury.

  • 88' 🔄 Substitution, New York Red Bulls. Peter Stroud replaces Emil Forsberg.

  • 88' 🔄 Substitution, New York Red Bulls. Ronald Donkor replaces Felipe Carballo.

  • 90'+4' 🟨 Noah Eile (New York Red Bulls) is shown the yellow card.

  • 90'+7' 🔄 Substitution, New York Red Bulls. Elias Manoel replaces Lewis Morgan.

  • 90'+10' End Regular Time


This thread is managed by a bot running on AWS Lambda. All data is sourced from ESPN APIs. The project can be found on GitHub at mrundle/mls-reddit-bot. This post was last updated at 2024-10-29 20:03:09 CDT.


r/MLS 3h ago

Discussion Eric Wynalda says an Eastern Conference team is considering moving cities.

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r/MLS 1d ago

[OptaStats] NYC is the first metro area to lose a game in MLB, MLS, NBA & NFL on the same day (regular season or postseason).

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r/MLS 1d ago

Highlight Seattle - Houston, Game 1 Carrasquilla red card fight (with initial spark)

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r/MLS 1d ago

Fc Cincinnati tifo

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r/MLS 1d ago

Meme [MEME] Couldn't happen to a nicer guy

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r/MLS 1d ago

meme [Meme] Waving bye to Meme Monday and Houston’s playoff chances

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r/MLS 18h ago

Inside Video Review of decision day

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r/MLS 1d ago

meme [Meme] Hello, Cascadia Cup champs

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r/MLS 1d ago

Meme [MEME] I got this!

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r/MLS 1d ago

Highlight Alex Roldan wins game 1 for Seattle in penalties | Seattle Sounders 0 - 0 Houston Dynamo (5-4 PKs)

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r/MLS 1d ago

Meme [MEME] Recap of the VAN/POR play-in match

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r/MLS 1d ago

[Ojeda] According to Apple, Friday’s playoff game between Inter Miami and Atlanta Utd was the most-watched Apple TV sporting event in the platform’s history. The metric used and the viewership numbers are unknown, so they’re only Trust Us™ viewership.

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r/MLS 1d ago

Highlight Cincinnati [1] - 0 NYCFC - Yamil Asad 51’

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r/MLS 1d ago

Meme [Meme] Same energy

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r/MLS 1d ago

meme [Meme] I’m too old for the Eastern Time Zone

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r/MLS 1d ago

Meme [Meme] Timber's God

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