Season | 2024 |
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Dates |
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Supporters' Shield | Inter Miami CF (1st shield) |
Champions Cup (United States) |
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Champions Cup (Canada) | Vancouver Whitecaps FC |
Matches played | 477 |
Goals scored | 1,488 (3.12 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Christian Benteke (23 goals) |
Biggest home win | Miami 5–0 Orlando (March 2) LAFC 5–0 Nashville (March 23) Seattle 5–0 Montréal (April 6) Cincinnati 6–1 Miami (July 6) Orlando 5–0 D.C. (July 6) |
Biggest away win | Montréal 0–5 New England (August 24) |
Highest scoring | 8 goals: Miami 6–2 RBNY (May 4) Salt Lake 5–3 Colorado (May 18) Dallas 5–3 Minnesota (June 19) LAFC 6–2 San Jose (June 22) Portland 4–4 St. Louis (August 24) |
Longest winning run | 7 matches: Cincinnati (April 20 – May 25) |
Longest unbeaten run | 15 matches: Salt Lake (March 23 – June 19) |
Longest winless run | 11 matches: D.C. (May 15 – July 6) |
Longest losing run | 8 matches: Nashville (June 29 – August 31) |
Highest attendance | 72,610 SKC 2–3 MIA (April 13)[1] |
Lowest attendance | 7,492 COL 2–1 DAL (April 20) |
Total attendance | 11,085,336[2] |
Average attendance | 23,240[2] |
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All statistics correct as of October 7, 2024. |
The 2024 Major League Soccer season is the ongoing 29th season of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada, and the 46th season overall of a national first-division league in the United States.
The league's 29 teams are divided into the Eastern and Western conferences. This is the first season since the 2016 season to have no new expansion teams joining MLS; San Diego FC is scheduled to join the league in 2025.[3] Inter Miami CF won the 2024 Supporters' Shield; the Columbus Crew are the reigning MLS Cup champions.[4]
Pre-season matches ran from January 19 through February 17.[5] The regular season began on February 21 and is scheduled to end on October 19, with a pause from late July to late August for the 2024 Leagues Cup, which comprised all MLS and Liga MX teams. The 2024 MLS Cup playoffs are scheduled to begin in October and conclude with MLS Cup 2024 on December 7.[6] MLS only sent 8 senior squads to the 2024 U.S. Open Cup as part of a compromise with the USSF that allowed most teams to be represented by MLS Next Pro teams.[7]
This is the second season that Apple and MLS are part of a ten-year partnership for the broadcast and streaming rights to all MLS and Leagues Cup games, as well as select MLS Next and MLS Next Pro games, on the MLS Season Pass service within the Apple TV app.[8]
The United States will be the host country for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup. MLS clubs can qualify as a host nation club; however, the criteria for selection has not been announced. MLS clubs have also been able to qualify through the 2021–2024 editions of the CONCACAF Champions Cup/CONCACAF Champions League. Seattle Sounders FC have qualified as the 2022 CONCACAF Champions League winners.[9]
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