2025 Major League Soccer season

Stadiums and locations Transfers MLS expansion draft Personnel and sponsorships Coaching changes == Regular season ==

Format The MLS regular season began on February 22 and ended on October 18 with "Decision Day". Each team played 34 matches – 17 at home and 17 away – primarily against opponents from the same conference. The schedule included two matches against opponents in the same conference, comprising a total of 28 matches, and six matches against opponents from the other conference. The regular season included breaks for the FIFA Club World Cup and CONCACAF Gold Cup from June 15 to 24. MLS did not include a break in regular season play for the month-long Leagues Cup, which began in late July. The MLS Cup playoffs began on October 22 and comprised nine teams from each conference over five rounds in a variety of formats, beginning with a single match for the lowest-seeded wild card teams. The next round was a best-of-three round, which was then followed by single-elimination matches hosted by the team with the better regular season record. MLS Cup 2025 was played on December 6. Conference standings Overall table The leading team in this table won the Supporters' Shield. Results table MLS All-Star Game ==MLS Cup playoffs==

Bracket MLS Cup == Attendance ==

Average home attendances Highest attendances Regular season 2025 MLS Cup playoffs == Player statistics ==

Source: Goals Hat-tricks ;Notes (H) – Home team(A) – Away team 4 Scored 4 goals Assists Clean sheets == Awards ==

Team/Player of the Matchday • Bold denotes the Player of the Matchday. Goal of the Matchday Player of the Month End-of-season awards ===MLS Best XI=== ==Broadcasting==

Apple TV, through MLS Season Pass, held the rights to stream every MLS match around the world via a 10-year deal that started in 2023. This was the first season MLS Season Pass aired Sunday Night Soccer, a primetime Sunday game each week that was available to all Apple TV+ subscribers. United States This was the third-year of a four-year deal with Fox Sports for the exclusive rights to MLS games on linear television in the United States. Fox Sports aired 34 matches during the 2025 season, with 19 on Fox Sports 1 and 15 on Fox in English. All 34 matches aired in Spanish on Fox Deportes. This was the first year DirecTV and Xfinity held the right to distribute MLS Season Pass to residential customers via their cable services. Canada This was the third-year of a four-year deal with TSN and RDS for the exclusive rights to MLS games on linear television in Canada. TSN and RDS aired 41 matches during the 2025 season. International Internationally, since Apple TV acquired the rights to Major League Soccer in 2023, MLS Season Pass exclusively aired the MLS outside the United States and Canada. However, in 2025, Major League Soccer announced agreements with SBS in Australia, Dubai TV in the Middle East, TV3 in Spain, Sportdigital in Germany, and SkyK in South Korea to air Sunday Night Soccer matches. ==See also==