2025 Schedule Thread

[mgarbowski]

I see 5 midweek so over half non Saturday home games

You're counting the Charlotte Friday game? Probably not helpful for our Sabbath observing friends, which is what Shwafta actually meant when he wrote that he expected all Saturday games. But yes, non-Saturday by the standard definition of Saturday, which does not start Friday evening.
Is simple, no?

 

[Shwafta]

The June break is for the Club World Cup

Oh. So when else is there time for leagues cup? no way in hell we can play it in july ever? lol

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LAFC is our 5th home no? or was it 6th?

 

[Shwafta]

You're counting the Charlotte Friday game? Probably not helpful for our Sabbath observing friends, which is what Shwafta actually meant when he wrote that he expected all Saturday games. But yes, non-Saturday by the standard definition of Saturday, which does not start Friday evening.
Is simple, no?

Yeah, I realized after I started a reply that I was framing "saturday" wrong lol. But either way, I am okay with having that fri night game, mostly bc it gives other people a chance for variety in game night as well. Some people can make a fri night but can't a sat or sun or wed.

 

[moogoo]

Oh. So when else is there time for leagues cup? no way in hell we can play it in july ever? lol

it'll be interesting how it all pans out to schedule leagues cup. doesn't seem possible to have all teams participate? i dunno...

 

[Fantazma]

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CCL in 2022 vs santos from costa rica the home leg was in LAFC stadium

 

[Fantazma]

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it'll be interesting how it all pans out to schedule leagues cup. doesn't seem possible to have all teams participate? i dunno...

the reddit rumor was 18 MLS teams vs 18 Liga mx teams, especially when the Union director said they were not taking part.

 

[LionNYC]

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it'll be interesting how it all pans out to schedule leagues cup. doesn't seem possible to have all teams participate? i dunno...

Or Leagues Cup takes place midweek...

 

[Shwafta]

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it'll be interesting how it all pans out to schedule leagues cup. doesn't seem possible to have all teams participate? i dunno...

ah. that actually works perfectly, because you can see in july/aug we are only scheduled once a week at the moment. Clearly leagues up is gonna be squished into those midweeks.

 

[moogoo]

Or Leagues Cup takes place midweek...

ah yes. that was the intention that was leaked/discussed wasn't it...

 

[Fantazma]

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Shwafta i count 4 Sunday and 4 midweek home games, so almost half!

so i guess they are alternating the miami game. this year in citi field.
also derby is back in citi ...i really dislike they made both derby games the third game in a week. they keep doing this.
no SD game so we dont play the new team.

 

[Gene]

Am I having a senior moment, or does anyone else think it's odd that our Decision Day match is vs Seattle?

 

[Fantazma]

Am I having a senior moment, or does anyone else think it's odd that our Decision Day match is vs Seattle?

it is a little odd since normally those games tend to almost always be within your conference. weird for them to have to travel all the way here for that.

 

[CCMore]

Haven’t deep dived yet, but I wish the stadium spilt was flipped 10 CF and 5 YS. Happy to see no SIS.

 

[Gene]

Now that I think about it I reckon with 30 teams next year there's going to be that odd conference match.

I guess NYCFC and Seattle were picked to be that odd match. But I do agree it's weird that Seattle has to come cross country. You would think they would set up teams a little closer to each other. But............MLS!

 

[moogoo]

Haven’t deep dived yet, but I wish the stadium spilt was flipped 10 CF and 5 YS. Happy to see no SIS.

there is a TBD for the decision day game vs seattle.. so there's still a chance. the red bulls will be in columbus.

 

[KevinJRogers]

My preference for the 30 team schedule...Play each team once (alternate home and away each year) for 29 matches and then 5 core teams you play home and away each year (suppose ours would be NE, NJ, PHI, TOR, MTL).

No more eastern conference or western conference, just take the top teams from the supporters' shield for the playoffs.

There was a similar proposal floated on Big Soccer:

A new 32 team MLS season schedule idea

I came up with this 32 team MLS season schedule idea? Just wanted to see what others think of it. In a 32 team league with 16 teams in the West and 16...

www.bigsoccer.com

I don't think it's quite there, but I like the germ of an idea.

So, we have Seven Matches in May (great title for a movie *ahem*), not to mention a pretty daunting July and August. I hope our new gaffer is named very soon. They're going to have to get sorted very quickly.

 

[Seth]

Mildly disappointed because we're not playing in Seattle as I was thinking of taking a week off and taking the train cross-country ending with a match there. Alas. Perhaps next year.

Although now that I'm looking at the schedule I was planning on being in Chicago the weekend after Labor Day and we're playing there the following weekend. Hmmmm.

 

[canchon]

a few scheduling quirks i noticed:
- We play all sat night away, except DC and Orlando which are wed nights. interesting?
- we visit LAFC, so it's basically a home game right?
- based on the fact we only play two matches in june, i assume leagues cup will be spread around those?
- CLT -> ORL -> SKC -> DAL is gonna be brutal especially in that timeframe, but i appreciate that they're all relatively close cross-country-wise.

CLT (furnace) - ORL (humid swamp) - SKC (depends) - DAL (Hell’s front porch) in July.

Yikes. Absolutely brutal.

 

[canchon]

CCL in 2022 vs santos from costa rica the home leg was in LAFC stadium

I was one of the 100 people or so who were there watching the game.

When I drove up and asked the parking attendant where to go he had no idea what I was talking about and then was like “oh you’re here to WATCH the game?” Lol.

 

[Seth]

Well that didn’t take long