2025 Schedule Thread

[ZYanksRule]

We have 7 home games before the middle of May. But we also have 4 July/August games which should be nice weather-wise. 5pm home game in August could be pretty swampy. Very glad to see the league at least trying some different starting times, though having our home opener in early March as a 7:30 game is ridiculous.

Leagues Cup is, apparently, going to be the 18 MLS playoff teams against all 18 Liga MX teams. Sounds like 3-4 group stage games in a single table for MLS and another single table for Liga MX. Top-4 from each league advance to quarterfinals and all games on weekdays. Should be a much better system and a far better way than stopping the season for a month.

Also sounds like they're going to try to have all games be Liga MX vs MLS through at least the quarterfinals, so no more NYCFC vs FC Cincy in the group stage.

 

[ZYanksRule]

One more thing: Why is it so hard to find a downloadable schedule? Do I really have to manually put these games into my calendar?

C'mon, MLS. WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY

 

[gbservis]

Those first three games for the new coach, yikes.

 

[mgarbowski]

The June break is for the Club World Cup

Why the F do we shut down because 2 of 30 teams are in a tournament?

 

[mgarbowski]

Once again our home games are frontloaded -- we have 7 home games before the middle of May.

That’s not really front loaded. There are also 7 away games in that time, and only 1 double game week. It is rather well balanced.

 

[ZYanksRule]

That’s not really front loaded. There are also 7 away games in that time, and only 1 double game week. It is rather well balanced.

Yeah, I guess I look at it as "7 of 17 home games being in colder weather," but you're right -- last year we had 9 home games before the end of May, so this is definitely more balanced. I take it back.

 

[mgarbowski]

Yeah, I guess I look at it as "7 of 17 home games being in colder weather," but you're right -- last year we had 9 home games before the end of May, so this is definitely more balanced. I take it back.

To your point we have just 2 games total in June, which is stupid.

 

[ZYanksRule]

To your point we have just 2 games total in June, which is stupid.

Yeah but that's the CWC/Gold Cup break, which is understandable.

 

[mgarbowski]

Yeah but that's the CWC/Gold Cup break, which is understandable.

I wish we could cut GC to every 4 years.
93% of MLS has nothing to do with CWC so forget that.

 

[Gotham Gator]

The June break is for the Club World Cup

Why are they bothering breaking for that. Do they really think it's going to get a lot of attention?

I was excited at first, but then yesterday I took a look at the matches in the general vicinity, and there was very little that was interesting - and the one or two matches I would consider were on a weekday at noon.

 

[moogoo]

Why are they bothering breaking for that. Do they really think it's going to get a lot of attention?

I was excited at first, but then yesterday I took a look at the matches in the general vicinity, and there was very little that was interesting - and the one or two matches I would consider were on a weekday at noon.

it is mainly for the gold cup, I think. kind of lame. should be every 4 years like the euros and copa america. there's no reason for it to be every 2 other than concacaf trying to squeeze some money out of a sub par competition.

 

[KevinJRogers]

Very glad to see the league at least trying some different starting times

Same here, especially since we're a cold weather team. It's good to see them continuing to refine the product.

(That 7:30 p.m. home opener doesn't make sense to me either, so let's call it a work in progress. )

In a similar vein, I hope AppleTV+ cooks up some additional content, too. They need more in the pipeline to really make it work. But that's a subject for another thread.