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Tailgates, supporters' sections and no relegation

MLS is a road-trip league. Twenty-nine cities, wildly different climates, and supporters' sections modelled on Europe but louder about it. Add USL and NISA below it and you get a young football culture inventing itself in public.

Top places to travel

  • PortlandProvidence Park, the Timbers Army, and a chainsaw.
  • SeattleSounders crowds in the 30,000s, ferries across the Sound.
  • CincinnatiTQL Stadium is the best new build in the league.
  • AustinQ2 Stadium, live music every night, tacos at 2am.

Did you know?

Trivia for the pub

Fact 01

Portland Timbers

A log is cut with a chainsaw for every home goal.

Fact 02

New York Cosmos

Signed Pelé and Beckenbauer, sold out Giants Stadium, then vanished.

Fact 03

LA Galaxy

Beckham's move here in 2007 changed the league's economics permanently.

Every club we hold

27 clubs · 1 divisions