Preseason - All Matches

[LionNYC]

The entire preseason in a single thread.

Preseason Schedule
Wednesday, February 5, 6 pm ET - Sporting Kansas City - Coachella Valley Invitational
Saturday, February 8, 3 pm ET - San Diego FC - Coachella Valley Invitational
Wednesday, February 12, 6pm ET - St. Louis CITY SC - Coachella Valley Invitational
Saturday, February 15, 3 pm ET - Minnesota United FC - Coachella Valley Invitational

 

[LionNYC]

2025 CVI to include 20 MLS, NWSL teams

The fourth edition of the Coachella Valley Invitational (CVI), a preseason soccer event owned and operated by AEG, will run from Feb. 1-22, 2025, and include a combined 20 teams from MLS and the NWSL.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

 

[Seth]

2025 CVI to include 20 MLS, NWSL teams

The fourth edition of the Coachella Valley Invitational (CVI), a preseason soccer event owned and operated by AEG, will run from Feb. 1-22, 2025, and include a combined 20 teams from MLS and the NWSL.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

OK I was super excited for this but then I read the article and it seems the two leagues won't be there at the same time and so won't be playing each other. Disappointing!

 

[LionNYC]

New York City FC Announces 2025 Coachella Valley Invitational Participation and Schedule | New York City FC

New York City FC confirms the club’s participation in the 2025 Coachella Valley Invitational (CVI), joining thirteen other MLS clubs along with six clubs from the NWSL for complete preseason matches, training sessions and organizational meetings. All beginning on Saturday, February 1 at the...

www.newyorkcityfc.com

 

[Fantazma]

New York City FC Announces 2025 Coachella Valley Invitational Participation and Schedule | New York City FC

New York City FC confirms the club’s participation in the 2025 Coachella Valley Invitational (CVI), joining thirteen other MLS clubs along with six clubs from the NWSL for complete preseason matches, training sessions and organizational meetings. All beginning on Saturday, February 1 at the...

www.newyorkcityfc.com

if they stream games cool if not then...meh

 

[moogoo]

if they stream games cool if not then...meh

they didn't stream them last year. we got highlights on the social media but that's about it. so i wouldn't expect much more than that.

 

[ZYanksRule]

they didn't stream them last year. we got highlights on the social media but that's about it. so i wouldn't expect much more than that.

It continues to blow my mind how hard it is to follow MLS preseason. You'd think they'd want the promotional opportunities of getting people excited for the season. Alas ...

 

[Fantazma]

they didn't stream them last year. we got highlights on the social media but that's about it. so i wouldn't expect much more than that.

i remember a game vs San Jose but cant remember who streamed it.

 

[Fantazma]

It continues to blow my mind how hard it is to follow MLS preseason. You'd think they'd want the promotional opportunities of getting people excited for the season. Alas ...

one argument i read online was that since its preseason the quality wont be good. having mostly draft picks/ trialist/ academy kids play most of these games that Apple didnt want to promote that since they were practically scrimmages.

 

[moogoo]

i remember a game vs San Jose but cant remember who streamed it.

you're right. there was a stream for San jose... it was streamed by the club

 

[mgarbowski]

and so won't be playing each other.

That would not go well.

 

[ZYanksRule]

one argument i read online was that since its preseason the quality wont be good. having mostly draft picks/ trialist/ academy kids play most of these games that Apple didnt want to promote that since they were practically scrimmages.

Every sport uses prospects/trialists in preseason and every other sport televises their preseason games. That's just not a reasonable excuse. In fact, I want to see the young guys, academy players in that environment. The most exciting part of Yankees spring training is watching the prospects get a chance.

 

[moogoo]

Every sport uses prospects/trialists in preseason and every other sport televises their preseason games. That's just not a reasonable excuse. In fact, I want to see the young guys, academy players in that environment. The most exciting part of Yankees spring training is watching the prospects get a chance.

mls/apple is probably just unwilling to spend the production money to stream preseason games. not to mention there's no league wide preseason schedule per se. it seems to be up to each individual club what they do, where they play their games, how many games they play. if they start broadcasting for certain teams, what about the other teams? the logistics of figuring it all out, producing all of it, marketing for all of it; it's just not worth it.

i think for MLS, which can't fill stadiums for leagues cup or USOC (actual competition games), it's just not worth the time and money for pre-season games for the small number of people who will actually be watching.

 

[gbservis]

mls/apple is probably just unwilling to spend the production money to stream preseason games. not to mention there's no league wide preseason schedule per se. it seems to be up to each individual club what they do, where they play their games, how many games they play. if they start broadcasting for certain teams, what about the other teams? the logistics of figuring it all out, producing all of it, marketing for all of it; it's just not worth it.

i think for MLS, which can't fill stadiums for leagues cup or USOC (actual competition games), it's just not worth the time and money for pre-season games for the small number of people who will actually be watching.

I get why apple won't do it, what I don't understand is why the team drastically reduced their own streaming pre-season games. In the early years the team used to provide fairly decent streams for most preseason games that weren't being broadcast by some other means like the tournament host.

 

[ZYanksRule]

mls/apple is probably just unwilling to spend the production money to stream preseason games. not to mention there's no league wide preseason schedule per se. it seems to be up to each individual club what they do, where they play their games, how many games they play. if they start broadcasting for certain teams, what about the other teams? the logistics of figuring it all out, producing all of it, marketing for all of it; it's just not worth it.

i think for MLS, which can't fill stadiums for leagues cup or USOC (actual competition games), it's just not worth the time and money for pre-season games for the small number of people who will actually be watching.

I completely understand there are production costs, but not everything has to make money. MLB spring training TV broadcasts don't make money, but they do it anyway because it helps increase attention and interest on Opening Day. The broadcasts themselves don't necessarily make money, but they help goose ticket sales on those 25-degree February and March afternoons.

MLS has a major problem with their current TV contract that, with it not being on actual TV, casual fans have forgotten about it. Making it even harder to follow preseason isn't the answer.

I agree that streaming preseason games appears to be a team-by-team decision. MLS should try to encourage more teams to agree to stream games.

 

[moogoo]

I get why apple won't do it, what I don't understand is why the team drastically reduced their own streaming pre-season games. In the early years the team used to provide fairly decent streams for most preseason games that weren't being broadcast by some other means like the tournament host.

I would imagine it has to do with whether or not the other team agrees to have it streamed? maybe they don't want it streamed for one reason or another. just a wild guess.

I completely understand there are production costs, but not everything has to make money. MLB spring training TV broadcasts don't make money, but they do it anyway because it helps increase attention and interest on Opening Day. The broadcasts themselves don't necessarily make money, but they help goose ticket sales on those 25-degree February and March afternoons.

MLS has a major problem with their current TV contract that, with it not being on actual TV, casual fans have forgotten about it. Making it even harder to follow preseason isn't the answer.

I agree that streaming preseason games appears to be a team-by-team decision. MLS should try to encourage more teams to agree to stream games.

I agree that apple and MLS need to do a better job marketing and promoting MLS on appleTV. I just don't see enough ads for it. I thought apple would have done more to promote MLS, but I guess they aren't prioritizing it like say amazon promotes their football streams.

I don't think MLS preseason is on a level that warrants a full production though. we're probably comparable to NHL at best with TV popularity and even their preseason games are mostly regional broadcasts if any with a select number that are national. and that's NHL.. our viewer numbers in the US are probably a lot less than NHL. The messi viewers abroad will be watching the inter miami pregame streams, which they will definitely have cause it is messi so why wouldn't they?

 

[Seth]

Every sport uses prospects/trialists in preseason and every other sport televises their preseason games. That's just not a reasonable excuse. In fact, I want to see the young guys, academy players in that environment. The most exciting part of Yankees spring training is watching the prospects get a chance.

Football has so few games to begin with so they do show the preseason ones but for baseball they show maybe half at best, and it's that many only towards the end of spring training. They have more on the radio than on TV but even that's not all of them.