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i would love to see a gradual rise to 40 teams within 10-12 years and eventually create MLS1 and MLS2 a relegation system

36 would be great! Go to 4 divisions 9 teams each. Keep the 2 conferences. Each team in your division plays each other twice each season. 16 games. Play the other teams in your conference once. 9 games. Play 1 division in the other conference once. Alternate each season. 9 games. That totals 34 games like we have now. Make the playoffs in division for great rivalries til the conference final and the mls cup!

Vegas would be a great city for a MLS club. San Antonio, Pittsburgh, and Hamilton would work as well.

You did not mention San Antonio! SAFC is the USL2022 Champion and was close to getting a bid before Austin FC came in at the last moment. Great fan support already. A growing city, and only one top level team in the Spurs. Would love to hear your comments on SAFC in the MLS.

Phoenix should definitely get a team. The only drawback is that people I Phoenix love their suns but I think there’s room for both teams.

Phoenix and NM needs to be in the league already. Our rivalry is awesome and would benefit the league greatly.

If I could pick the next 3 expansion teams it would be New Mexico, Las Vegas, & Phoenix 👀

Raleigh, NC had submitted a bid prior to the Charlotte expansion. Charlotte was ultimately selected because the stadium was already open while Raleigh’s would have to wait a few years. The 22,000-seat stadium is now likely to open in 2025 or 2026 but is going to be worth around $200M

I strongly believe if there was no USL they would have stopped at 30. But ofcourse they want a monopoly on the sport so they are willing to expand to a crazy amount (Maybe 40???) all just to take away the big markets the 2nd division league has. (San Diego, Sacramento, Phoenix, New Mexico, San Antonio,Louisville, New Orleans, Detroit, Tampa Bay etc)

I know relegation might be tricky since the way most teams join require alot of money. So I think they should split mls as Mls east and Mls West

Kentucky could form a team called Kentucky FC or KFC for short! 😂

I don’t think San Diego needs to build a stadium. Pretty sure SDSU’s stadium was built to host soccer

If you Americans introduced a promotion relegation system like we have in England you could have a really decent and lucrative set up in a few years

San Diego is getting a mls team....it was announced Thursday

What the mls needs is pro/rel

I would love to see the Indy Eleven make the move to MLS and get some investment to upgrade the squad

As someone who lives in the Columbus, OH metro, I don't get the proximity issue for Pittsburgh. It's a 3-hour drive. Cincinnati to Pittsburgh is almost 4.5 hours. Pittsburgh to Philadelphia is like 4.75 hours. Yet, I could drive from Columbus to Cincinnati in about an hour and 40 minutes. Both the Columbus Crew and Cincinnati FC seem to be selling out right now. I think I must be missing something.

32 teams simple. My additions would be Sacramento, San Diego, Vegas, Phoenix, San Antonio, and Louisville. Then get rid of the Canadian teams and they can join the Canadian Premier league and then the Concacaf Champions league would be stronger.

I can see 36 teams in MLS Las Vegas San Diego Phoenix Louisville Pittsburgh Tampa Bay Ottawa

32 teams should be the highest it ever goes

San Diego has a ready for MLS Soccer Stadium with grass: this is where SD State plays football.

I would say New Mexico, (I love Albuquerque as a city) Las Vegas, San Diego, San Antonio, and Oklahoma City! Oklahoma City is a top 20 populated city with a huge Hispanic population.

Great video

the next Six for 36 MLS squads...Las Vegas, Phoenix, NOLA Detroit, Louisville, Tampa Bay

Calgary Sports and Entertainment, a John Menard Jr./Danica Patrick-led Green Bay-based ownership group, and a Mark Davis/Maloof family-led Las Vegas-based ownership group will each pay an expansion fee of $200 million to award 3 MLS franchises to Calgary, Green Bay, and Las Vegas for the 2026 MLS season.

San Diego would be perfect

They should go to 32 teams,san diego, vegas,phoenix,Detroit,

I think the usl should in the secondary cities

With 3 spots open here are my picks: 1. San Diego - Great weather year round, large population, only one major pro team. It would be amazing to have a waterfront stadium but likely won't happen. The Aztec's stadium needs a canopy and would be a good home. San Diego is an attractive destination not only for fans but also players, hopefully attracting good stars. San Diego FC is a good name, please don't call it the SD Loyal. 2. Phoenix- one of the largest metropolitan areas without a team. Phoenix would probably need an indoor stadium due to the summer heat or play out of the cardinals stadium. 3. Las Vegas- Even if you're just rooting for a visiting team, u can still enjoy Vegas. Vegas has a large metro with entertainment as its base. The same issues would be present as in Phoenix. Wildcard. Sacramento- Sacramento has a huge soccer fan base. The plan is already in place, they just need funding. Sacramento would enter a rivalry with the northwest teams, as well as the other CA teams. Sacramento Republic is a great team name and need a great stadium to play in. The proposed stadium was not up to current mls standards, in my opinion. I have Sac Repulic as a WC because Phoenix and LV might not be popular choices because of the climate. Also, I only have teams in the West because cities are further spread out than on the East Coast. Meaning teams are clustered closer together on the EC, giving u choices of who your team is. Canada. I would love to see another team in Canada. Calgary or Edmonton would be a good rivalry with Vancouver.

I think it'd be cool if Vegas got an MLS team and Seattle and Vegas got NBS teams! Then, that would bring the total number of cities with a team in the big 5 pro sports in the USA and Canada to 13!

NOLA is struggling to keep the NBA because their corporate community is so small. Soccer? Youth soccer is non existent in the gulf south ... or at least until you get 20 miles outside the city. Did I mention exceedingly low disposable revenue? #BadTake

mls teams should be able to qualify to libertadores. Would be insane.

No relegation is the equivalent of "everyone gets a prize", "it's not about winning , it's about competing". You're playing with kid gloves without relegation.

The best format for MLS is to split the MLS into two separate halves of 20 teams each (40 total), with no inter-conference play until the playoffs. What should each half be called? In the USA, Major League Baseball is separated into two “Leagues” rather than “Conferences”. As the MLS shares the moniker “Major League”, it should similarly be separated into two “Leagues”. [Enclosed groups of teams are better called “Leagues” anyway (eg. Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, etc)] What should the Leagues be called? Well in the USA, the NBA and NHL are divided geographically between East and West, and so the MLS should continue the East/West partition as well. Therefore, we have the MLS comprised of the Eastern League (20 teams) and the Western League (20 teams). In each League, the 20 teams would play each other twice (once away, once home), to create a “balanced European” schedule of 38 regular season matches. This schedule would also be more acceptable to European football “snobs.” With matches confined to the geographic regions of the East and West, the travel time would be cut in half. As the East and West would be separate Leagues, each should have its own champion (determined by the regular season, not by playoffs). There would be two Supporter’s Shields Trophies: The Eastern Shield (shaped like the MLS Logo with an “E” on it) The Western Shield (shaped like the MLS Logo with a “W” on it) Is 40 Teams too much? The size and population of the USA+Canada is similar to all of Europe, which has several leagues and over 100 teams. In addition, there would be so many trophies in Professional US Soccer (MLS Cup, Eastern/Western Supporter’s Shields, US Open Cup, Canadian Championship, Leagues Cup); there’d enough trophies to support 40 teams. Would too many teams dilute the talent? Soccer is a global sport, and talent can be found worldwide (as compared to sports such as the NFL where talent comes only from the USA). No regular season inter-league play? This creates a sense of wonder and excitement when teams from separate leagues eventually do play each other in the playoffs (eg. How strong is this East Team compared to that West Team?) Take College Football for example: Each region has its own league (Big 10, Big 12, SEC, ACC, PAC12, AAC). There’s a sense of wonder (is Ohio State from the Big10 as good as Alabama from the SEC?). We really don’t know until the playoffs, because there’s minimal interleague play. In fact, no inter-league play is actually what makes European Football so interesting. The Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, all keep games within their own leagues. Then their playoffs is the UEFA Champions League; and only during this tournament do inter-league matches begin (eg. Manchester United vs Bayern Munich). But Major League Baseball started regular season inter-league play in 1997? This is true. And there would still be some regular season inter-league play from the US Open Cup, Canadian Championship, and League’s Cup. The playoffs would work similar to the European Playoffs (UEFA Champions League). A Group Stage with Eastern and Western teams intermixed (to weed out the best teams of both leagues whilst they play inter-league matches) [Note: There’s no point to have a Group Stage if it’s not intermixed with both Eastern and Western teams. If a group only contains Eastern teams, then just best to advance the teams according to their rankings on the Eastern table. Same goes if a group only contains Wester teams.] The Group Stage would be followed by a single elimination Knockout Round. Nothing more exciting than single elimination knockout matches! Group A (#1 East, #4 West, #5 East, #8 West): Avg Seed Overall: 4.5, Avg East Seed: 3, Avg West Seed 6 Group B (#1 West, #4 East, #5 West, #8 East): Avg Seed Overall: 4.5, Avg East Seed: 6, Avg West Seed 3 Group C (#2 West, #3 East, #6 West, #7 East): Avg Seed Overall: 4.5, Avg East Seed: 5, Avg West Seed 4 Goup D (#2 East, #3 West, #6 East, #7 West): Avg Seed Overall: 4.5, Avg East Seed: 4, Avg West Seed 5 The above format creates a balanced grouping (The average seed ranks overall, balance out to be even across all groups) Quarterfinals: Top Bracket: Group A First-Place vs Group B Second-Place Group C First-Place vs Group D Second-Place Bottom Bracket: Group A Second-Place vs Group B First-Place Group C Second-Place vs Group D First-Place Semifinals: Top Bracket Winner vs Bottom Bracket Winner Finals: MLS Cup Champions The Group Stage followed by Single Elimination Playoff, would familiarize Americans to the World Cup Format. Last point: Promotion / Relegation may have worked for leagues 100 years ago, but US Professional Sports (NFL, NBA, NHL) has proven that the “franchise model” with a salary cap works better. They are the top leagues in the world in their respective sports. It allows leagues to grow together, rather than having a few powerhouse clubs that dominate year in and year out.

You mention the proximity in the Midwest area, but nothing about proximity to other teams in California. San Diego is now the fourth team in California alone. I think Phoenix will get an expansion team soon. And I’d like to see Indy or Louisville get a spot too.

If the MLS expands, it should be Indianapolis and Oklahoma City and they should've realigned to a 4 division set back in 2010. Other wildcard picks for an MLS include: Buffalo Pittsburgh Baltimore Detroit Milwaukee Louisville New Orleans Phoenix Albuquerque El Paso Richmond Birmingham Memphis Omaha Las Vegas Sacramento I highly encourage that Charlotte FC relocates to Raleigh NC and FC Cincinnati relocates to Cleveland OH

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i think when they stat paying the players the money that they pay basketball and football (world star players attract world viewership), I think you will see a major increase in the popularity...and this popularity could span to around the world which means a great deal more revenue would be generated (I think that's way we are seeing so many expansion cites, the owners are seeing why world soccer is a goldmine)....I also think they need American star players...

Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Antonio Strong markets with big Hispanic populations. These are no brainers for expansion. Pittsburgh is not close to Cincy and Columbus is a different market too. Pitt has rabid sports fan and stadium ready to go for years until they decide to build their own. If they can get to 40 and have MLS 1 & 2, sone smaller markets are fine. Indy, Calgary, Buffalo all need a team as well and would be embraced locally. Look at STL. Same energy.

They should just keep it to 32 If they want more teams, they should add a MLS II for pro-rel

40 teams max for the MLS unless they want a promotion to add more teams.

I hope and pray San Antonio gets a new sports franchise.

You forgot San Antonio.

San Diego would be perfect also hearing that The San Diego Loyal of the USL is gonna move up to MLS in 2024

Tampa Bay PLEASE!!😭🙏🏽

Stop putting teams in Los Angeles. It’s a terrible sports market unless you’re the Lakers or Dodgers.

Unless they were to build domed Stadiums, Edmonton and Calgary would be brutal in the early part of the season. It still hits below zero at that time!

Milwaukee is in the process of naming its USL Championship side to begin play in 2025.

Major League Soccer with 60 teams will be Amazing

Um, yeah so about Milwaukee...

It would be awesome if the Pittsburgh Riverhounds made it to the MLS. Highmark stadium currently has a 5k seats. It can be easily upgraded to MLS standards. We do support our teams. Attendance is low for Pirate games. Only reason fans are boycotting. Give us a team with owner that attempts to put a winner on the field you'll get a fan base.

Great video. If they expand to higher then 30 I’d like to see them start doing promotion and relegation

I'm from New Mexico so I'd love to see a team here but I think it's a reeeaaaaaaally long shot, I just don't think the Albuquerque metro area can support anything more than a USL team.

the MLS has announced that San Diego will be getting an MLS team that will start play in 2025

I would hope that San Diego would consider using the newly constructed Snap Dragon stadium for SDSU. MLS was a controversial topic during elections when they were trying to decide what to do with the old Chargers stadium and property. Residents here shot down the MLS plan, led by Landon Donovan, pretty easily, so the road to a new stadium will be very challenging. This city is not a huge sports town. I don't expect a MLS team to come to town unless they can use one of the current stadiums, Petco Park or Snap Dragon stadium.

I'd be happy with Indy, Sacramento and Phoenix.

There are two teams that should join MLS just based on their fame: New York Cosmos - Even today it has a Worldwide Fame Tampa Bay Rowdies And in doing so, MLS could recreate the three sided rivalry between these two and Inter Miami (Previously Fort Lauderdale) the smallest of the US'S Soccer Original Big Three!!!!

Birmingham legion needs to join.

MLS should cap at 32 or 36 here are my predictions: #30 San Diego (Announced) #31 Las Vegas #32 Phoenix If they expand further #33 Detroit #34 Tampa Bay #35 New Orleans #36 Pittsburgh

Alaska!!!

How about putting a team in Mexico City?

How about Birmingham, we have a team in USL and a new stadium

I vote for Ottawa, ON Victoria, BC Edmonton, AL Calgary, AL Winnipeg, MB Indianapolis, IN Baltimore, MD Annapolis, MD Cleveland, OH Columbus, OH Las Vegas, NV San Francisco, CA Anaheim, CA San Diego, CA Louisville, KY Pittsburgh, PA Harrisburg, PA Nashville, TN Charlotte, NC Baton Rouge, LA Tampa Bay, FL Jacksonville, FL Mexicali, BN La Paz, BS Mexico City, SM Monterrey, NL

Any other team expansion in the MLS it would be Vegas can't see sports league not having a team in vegas and I know Don Garber wants the casino money

Canada has their level 1 league. Canadian premier League.

San Diego as long as they agree to change their stupid name. The "loyal"

Relegation without relegation. 1. MLS future: 40 teams divided into 2 levels. Top level 20 teams and lower level ' dog house ' 20 teams , only 1 conference in each level. 2. Every half of the season the bottom 10 teams from top would be ralegated the dog house and the top 10 teams from the dog house would be promoted to the top level. And the next year season will be the teams will start from the places that they ended previous season. 3. Each team will play 38 games , no playoffs! Beacouse the entire seasson will be like playoffs. The fall champion will play the spring champion in MLS cup. The season will start in july /august and end in may/june. In this way we can streach the season more if teams from colder locations start hosting later and stop hosting earlier. MLS cup will be in june. Now MLS playoffs/cup is when everybody attention is on NFL , it's crazy. 4. in this system MLS clubs will play total 15% more games than before. It does not make sanse that half of the teams end season sooner than the rest. 5. It would be a nice compromise between relegation/promotion and the current system were many players love to finish the season sooner! 6. There are would be no safe middle of the table place , it will be easy to be relegated and easy to be promoted. 7. The revenue would be divided between franchises the same way as before so the teams in the dog house would no suffer financially. 8. This system would create a lot of excitments all year long.

36 18 in each conferencr

What about one in Mexico City? Mexico Could have two teams.

Can Mexico City get a team or another city in another country besides Canada, like Mexico or other countries?

Canadian teams need to be bought out and moved to the CPL. Canada should be able to support a 12-16 team league.

Canada is tough due to economics & taxes.. and, if another health crackdown emerges, you may as well fold the Canadian teams.

first,the galaxy shold move to san diego,second that red bulls have to leave the league,and bring back the NJ metrostars,number 3, most of the franchise have united or union in their names,for an example the doop can name as philadelphia snakes.4,no canucks,the caps have to relocate to oakland,other 2 teams goes to the CPL [expansions to indianapolis and detroit],the rapids could move to las vegas,charlotte to raleigh,dynamo to birmigham,d.c to green bay and the SKC roads to louisville,five,expansions to tampa bay [mutiny back],phoenix rising,pittsburgh impact [yes],new orleans [fusion],tulsa [yup,ok state sports fans],palm beach,oregon capital city [oregon derby],san antonio [4 for texas],NY cosmos [finally],albulquerque and toronto [lol] [possible 48~64 teams league]

Rather than expanding the top league (MLS) to 36-40, they should focus on a 80-100 club pyramid with 20 clubs per division. The good news is, the infrastructure already exists. In the US alone, there are already close to 100 fully professional football clubs. I know, I know... "Promotion and relegation will never work here." "It's too foreign." "We'll end up with the same problems European leagues have - a few very strong super clubs, and everyone else". I suggest incorporating other elements, besides one-year results. 1.) Promotion occurs annually, but is based on a rolling three year span. Any club may have a down year. Any club may catch lightning in a bottle. However, three years of futility or excellence are a far better indicator. 2.) Viability of viewership. Clubs must be incentivized to attract eyes. An MLS club which regularly lags behind the rest of the league in broadcast and streaming should be reevaluated, and relegated. A lower division side which consistently outperforms its league peers likewise deserves promotion consideration. 3.) Facilities. Clubs which don't build their own parks, or play in purpose-built venues are by definition less attractive than clubs which make that commitment. No one wants to watch a football match in a baseball stadium, if they can help it. 4.) Community/supporter group engagement: club management just be evaluated by its commitment to supporters at large, and active ultra groups in particular. Not only should match attendance be evaluated, but so should the percentage of attendees relative to capacity. A sold out 20,000 seater is better than 25,000 in an NFL stadium. The main problem with a traditional European model, is ownership. They bought in with the understanding that the league would be closed. In the first stages, that was necessary. We are past that. Owners should be enthusiastic about cutting dead weight (clubs which lose, don't invest in themselves, don't attract viewers, and have weak relations with the community). They could conversely welcome lower division clubs with a track record of making those commitments. It'll never be implemented. But it won't be because this isn't a sound plan.

NOLA FC should be a USL side in. 2025.

Why Is montreal and Toronto in mls ? Not cpl

Mexico City!!

You know i would love to see Jackson, Mississippi & Birmingham, Alabama get an MLS team

If they are going to do this, they need to have some way to make all games matter -- maybe like the Mexican league or relegation/promotion within MLS somehow.

Should've done a little more research on Canadian expansion, it would be pretty much impossible. Not only do many Canadian cities have serious issues with venues but also it would receive opposition from both the CSA and FIFA, neither of which support Canadian teams playing in the US system anymore. It is why Ottawa Fury died because CSA stopped them from playing in the USL.

Edmonton cant even sustain à CPL team. This being said the 3 canadian teams should eventually leave mls and join the cpl. Making the cpl more competitive all-canadian too....and mls will free up 3 markets

Pittsburgh won’t Fail they will be a awesome MLS team

MLS 1 MLS 2, 20 teams each, 40 franchise in total

Should give Virginia a team

Ugh. They need to stop at 30

It would be cool if Chicago would field an actual team

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How about Birmingham, we have a team in USL and a new stadium