The 2018 Major League Soccer season is the 23rd season of Major League Soccer, top division of soccer in the United States and Canada. The regular season began on March 3, 2018 and will conclude on October 28, 2018. The MLS Cup Playoffs will begin on October 31, 2018 and conclude with the MLS Cup 2018 on December 8, 2018. The league will take a nine-day hiatus in early June for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, reduced from previous breaks.
One new club has joined the league as an expansion franchise: Los Angeles FC. Also, this is D.C. United's first season in their new soccer-specific stadium, Audi Field.
Toronto FC are the defending Supporters' Shield champions and defending MLS Cup champions.
Video 2018 Major League Soccer season
Teams
Stadiums and locations
Personnel and sponsorship
Note: All teams use Adidas as kit manufacturer.
Managerial changes
Maps 2018 Major League Soccer season
Regular season
Format
During the 2018 MLS regular season, each team will play 34 games, including 17 home games and 17 away games. Teams will face each of their conference opponents (10 in the East, 11 in the West) twice during the season with one game at home and one game away. Western Conference teams will play one additional intra-conference game and Eastern Conference teams will play two. All teams will face each non-conference opponent once.
Conference standings
Eastern Conference
Western Conference
Overall table
Aggregate 2017 and 2018 table
As Toronto FC won MLS Cup 2017, at least one of the U.S. berths for the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League will be reallocated to the U.S.-based team with the best aggregate record over the 2017 and 2018 MLS regular seasons that has not yet qualified. An additional second and third berth will be allocated based on this method if a Canada-based team wins MLS Cup 2018, and/or a U.S.-based team qualifies for multiple CONCACAF Champions League berths (by winning a combination of MLS Cup 2018, 2017 U.S. Open Cup, and/or 2018 U.S. Open Cup).
Note: Only U.S.-based teams are listed in this table.
Attendance
Average home attendances
- As of June 13, 2018
Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.
Highest attendances
- As of June 13, 2018
Regular season
Player statistics
Awards
Player of the month
Player / team of the week
- Bold denotes league player of the week.
- Italics denotes Audi player performance of the week.
Goal of the week
Player transfers
SuperDraft
The MLS SuperDraft is an annual event, taking place in January of each year, in which the teams of Major League Soccer select players who have graduated from college or otherwise been signed by the league. The first two rounds of 2018 MLS SuperDraft were held on January 19 in Philadelphia. Rounds three and four of the 2018 SuperDraft were held via conference call on January 21. Los Angeles FC selected João Moutinho with the first overall pick.
Allocation ranking
The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a player who is in the MLS allocation list. The MLS allocation list contains select U.S. National Team players and players transferred outside of MLS garnering a transfer fee of at least $500,000. The allocations are ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2017 season, taking playoff performance into account. As an expansion team, Los Angeles FC took the top spot.
Once the club uses its allocation ranking to acquire a player, it drops to the bottom of the list. A ranking can be traded provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club's ranking. At all times each club is assigned one ranking. The rankings reset at the end of each MLS season.
References
External links
- Official website (Mobile)
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