List of Major League Soccer seasons

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Major League Soccer is the premier professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. As of 2022, it consists of 28 teams: 25 in the United States and 3 in Canada. The league has played since 1996. Each year, it plays a league which determines entry into the playoffs. The league is divided into two conferences, the Eastern Conference and Western Conference. In 2000 and 2001, there was also a Central Conference. The team with the overall best regular-season record is awarded the Supporters' Shield, one of three major domestic trophies in North American soccer (the others being the national championships—the U.S. Open Cup or the Canadian Championship—and the primary trophy: the MLS Cup league championship). In 2010 and 2011, the league played as a double round robin, with each team playing each other team one home and away—creating a balanced schedule. With an unsuitable number of teams beginning in 2012, the league has moved to an unbalanced schedule weighted towards a team's respective conference.

The postseason consists of a 14-team, four-round knockout. The top team in each conference enters in the overall quarterfinal round, while the remaining teams from each conference playoff for a spot in that round. The MLS Cup is a single match final with the winner becoming league champion of the year. Seven times a team has won the league double: winning both the MLS Cup and the Supporters' Shield in the same season. In 2017, Toronto FC became the first team to win a domestic treble. The MLS Golden Boot is awarded each year to the player with the most goals in the regular season, and the best overall player is awarded the Landon Donovan MVP Award.

List of seasons

The following is a list of all MLS seasons. It contains the number of teams, the number of regular-season games played per team, the champion—winner of the MLS Cup, the winners of the regular-season Eastern Conference, the Western Conference, and for 2000 and 2001, the defunct Central Division, the winner of the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP), the top scorer(s), and the regular-season average attendance.

dagger Winner of the Supporters' Shield
* Winner of the league double
‡ Winner of the domestic treble
* Player set the single season record for goals
Season Teams Games Champion Eastern Western Central MVP Top scorer(s) (goals) Att. Ref.
1996 10 32 D.C. United Tampa Bay Mutinydagger Los Angeles Galaxy — Carlos Valderrama Roy Lassiter (27)* 17,406 [1]
1997 10 32 D.C. United* D.C. Uniteddagger Kansas City Wizards — Preki Jaime Moreno (16) 14,619 [2]
1998 12 32 Chicago Fire D.C. United Los Angeles Galaxydagger — Marco Etcheverry Stern John (26) 14,312 [3]
1999 12 32 D.C. United* D.C. Uniteddagger Los Angeles Galaxy — Jason Kreis Stern John
Jason Kreis
Roy Lassiter
(18)		 14,282 [4]
2000 12 32 Kansas City Wizards* MetroStars Kansas City Wizardsdagger Chicago Fire Tony Meola Mamadou Diallo (26) 13,756 [5]
2001 12 26–27 San Jose Earthquakes Miami Fusiondagger Los Angeles Galaxy Chicago Fire Alex Pineda Chacón Alex Pineda Chacón (19) 14,961 [6]
2002 10 28 Los Angeles Galaxy* New England Revolution Los Angeles Galaxydagger — Carlos Ruiz Carlos Ruiz (24) 15,822 [7]
2003 10 30 San Jose Earthquakes Chicago Firedagger San Jose Earthquakes — Preki Carlos Ruiz
Taylor Twellman
(15)		 14,898 [8]
2004 10 30 D.C. United Columbus Crewdagger Kansas City Wizards — Amado Guevara Brian Ching
Eddie Johnson
(12)		 15,559 [9]
2005 12 32 Los Angeles Galaxy New England Revolution San Jose Earthquakesdagger — Taylor Twellman Taylor Twellman (17) 15,108 [10]
2006 12 32 Houston Dynamo D.C. Uniteddagger FC Dallas — Christian Gómez Jeff Cunningham (16) 15,504 [11]
2007 13 30 Houston Dynamo D.C. Uniteddagger Chivas USA — Luciano Emílio Luciano Emílio (20) 16,770 [12]
2008 14 30 Columbus Crew* Columbus Crewdagger Houston Dynamo — Guillermo Barros Schelotto Landon Donovan (20) 16,460 [13]
2009 15 30 Real Salt Lake Columbus Crewdagger LA Galaxy — Landon Donovan Jeff Cunningham (17) 16,037 [14]
2010 16 30 Colorado Rapids New York Red Bulls LA Galaxydagger — David Ferreira Chris Wondolowski (18) 16,675 [15]
2011 18 34 LA Galaxy* Sporting Kansas City LA Galaxydagger — Dwayne De Rosario Dwayne De Rosario
Chris Wondolowski
(16)		 17,872 [16]
2012 19 34 LA Galaxy Sporting Kansas City San Jose Earthquakesdagger — Chris Wondolowski Chris Wondolowski (27)* 18,807 [17]
2013 19 34 Sporting Kansas City New York Red Bullsdagger Portland Timbers — Mike Magee Camilo Sanvezzo (22) 18,608 [18]
2014 19 34 LA Galaxy D.C. United Seattle Sounders FCdagger — Robbie Keane[19] Bradley Wright-Phillips (27)*[20] 19,148 [21]
2015 20 34 Portland Timbers New York Red Bullsdagger FC Dallas — Sebastian Giovinco Sebastian Giovinco
Kei Kamara
(22)		 21,574 [22]
2016 20 34 Seattle Sounders FC New York Red Bulls FC Dallasdagger — David Villa Bradley Wright-Phillips (24) 21,692 [23]
2017 22 34 Toronto FC‡ Toronto FCdagger Portland Timbers — Diego Valeri Nemanja Nikolić (24) 22,112 [24]
2018 23 34 Atlanta United FC New York Red Bullsdagger Sporting Kansas City — Josef Martínez Josef Martínez (31)* 21,875 [25]
2019 24 34 Seattle Sounders FC New York City FC Los Angeles FCdagger — Carlos Vela Carlos Vela (34)* 21,265 [26]
2020 26 18–23 Columbus Crew SC Philadelphia Uniondagger Sporting Kansas City — Alejandro Pozuelo Diego Rossi (14) 14,913 [27]
2021 27 34 New York City FC New England Revolutiondagger Colorado Rapids — Carles Gil Valentín Castellanos
Ola Kamara
(19)		 15,350 [28]
2022 28 34 Los Angeles FC* Philadelphia Union Los Angeles FCdagger — Hany Mukhtar Hany Mukhtar (23) 21,033 [29]

See also

References

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