2019/2020 Off-season News

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2019/2020 Off-season News Dec 2, 2019 21:45:39 GMT

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Dec 2, 2019 16:43:09 GMT TSchulz said:

Eastern Conference (13 clubs)

Atlanta United
Chicago Fire FC
Columbus Crew SC
D.C. United
FC Cincinnati
Inter Miami CF
Montreal Impact
New England Revolution
New York City FC
New York Red Bulls
Orlando City
Philadelphia Union
Toronto FC

Western Conference (13 clubs)
Colorado Rapids
FC Dallas
Houston Dynamo
LAFC
LA Galaxy
Minnesota United
Nashville SC
Portland Timbers
Real Salt Lake
San Jose Earthquakes
Seattle Sounders
Sporting Kansas City
Vancouver Whitecaps

Inter Miami CF and Nashville SC will be in separate conferences for their debut season after the conference alignment was confirmed by the league for next year. Inter Miami join the East, while Nashville SC will compete in the West, ensuring both conferences will feature 13 clubs.

Each club will continue to play a 34-game regular season with 17 home matches and 17 away matches. Every team will play their 12 intra-conference opponents twice – once home and once away for a total of 24 matches – with the other 10 regular-season matches coming against the opposite conference. Those inter-conference opponents will be revealed with the full 2020 schedule release.

The unbalanced schedule has become more f'd. Depending on which 10 opponents from the East out of a possible 13 that a Western Conf club gets, it could be an easy 3 points (FCC) or a tough match (ATL). But I think the inter-conference matches for teams in the East are worse--you'd want to face a shit show like VAN or COL rather than an LAFC or SEA. The Supporters' Shield means so much less now.

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2019/2020 Off-season News Dec 3, 2019 7:02:56 GMT

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Dec 2, 2019 16:56:26 GMT Dutchman said:

Soon we'll have divisions in each conference, and the MLS schedule will closely resemble the NFL schedule.

I know you're joking, but in an interview with Grant Wahl about 2 or 3 years ago, that's EXACTLY what Don Garber said he wanted. But he went even further. He wants up to 3-4 divisions in each conference He said teams will play other teams in their division multiple times a year (he emphasized this by saying "think how excited Seattle and Portland fans will be to play each other up to 6 times per year. It'll be great for our rivalries"), they'll play teams outside their division but WITHIN the same Conference once per year, and will NEVER play teams from the other conference except in MLS Cup. He also said ideally he wants 40-42 teams in the league.

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2019/2020 Off-season News Dec 3, 2019 7:05:02 GMT

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Post by carella211 on Dec 3, 2019 7:05:02 GMT

Dec 2, 2019 21:45:39 GMT airkeeper said:

Dec 2, 2019 16:43:09 GMT TSchulz said:

Eastern Conference (13 clubs)

Atlanta United
Chicago Fire FC
Columbus Crew SC
D.C. United
FC Cincinnati
Inter Miami CF
Montreal Impact
New England Revolution
New York City FC
New York Red Bulls
Orlando City
Philadelphia Union
Toronto FC

Western Conference (13 clubs)
Colorado Rapids
FC Dallas
Houston Dynamo
LAFC
LA Galaxy
Minnesota United
Nashville SC
Portland Timbers
Real Salt Lake
San Jose Earthquakes
Seattle Sounders
Sporting Kansas City
Vancouver Whitecaps

Inter Miami CF and Nashville SC will be in separate conferences for their debut season after the conference alignment was confirmed by the league for next year. Inter Miami join the East, while Nashville SC will compete in the West, ensuring both conferences will feature 13 clubs.

Each club will continue to play a 34-game regular season with 17 home matches and 17 away matches. Every team will play their 12 intra-conference opponents twice – once home and once away for a total of 24 matches – with the other 10 regular-season matches coming against the opposite conference. Those inter-conference opponents will be revealed with the full 2020 schedule release.

The unbalanced schedule has become more f'd. Depending on which 10 opponents from the East out of a possible 13 that a Western Conf club gets, it could be an easy 3 points (FCC) or a tough match (ATL). But I think the inter-conference matches for teams in the East are worse--you'd want to face a shit show like VAN or COL rather than an LAFC or SEA. The Supporters' Shield means so much less now.

That's EXACTLY how MLS wants it. They've wanted to kill off the Shield for years. The only reason they even started acknowledging it is because the players were. If they can't profit off of something, they don't want it anywhere near their fake league.

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2019/2020 Off-season News Dec 3, 2019 16:10:10 GMT via mobile

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Post by airkeeper on Dec 3, 2019 16:10:10 GMT

Dec 3, 2019 7:05:02 GMT carella211 said:

Dec 2, 2019 21:45:39 GMT airkeeper said:

The unbalanced schedule has become more f'd. Depending on which 10 opponents from the East out of a possible 13 that a Western Conf club gets, it could be an easy 3 points (FCC) or a tough match (ATL). But I think the inter-conference matches for teams in the East are worse--you'd want to face a shit show like VAN or COL rather than an LAFC or SEA. The Supporters' Shield means so much less now.

That's EXACTLY how MLS wants it. They've wanted to kill off the Shield for years. The only reason they even started acknowledging it is because the players were. If they can't profit off of something, they don't want it anywhere near their fake league.

They may as well remove the CCL berth for SS winners and give it to the club that Garner “randomly” draws from a hat (psst...it would always be one of the LA or NY clubs *wink wink*).

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2019/2020 Off-season News Dec 4, 2019 17:02:41 GMT

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The 2020 dates are roughly in line with the same windows in 2019 (Feb. 13-May 7 / July 9-Aug. 7) and 2018 (Feb. 7-May 1 / July 10-Aug. 8).

Primary Transfer Window: Wed., February 12 – Tues., May 5, 2020
Secondary Transfer Window: Tues., July 7 – Wed., Aug. 5, 2020

MLS PRESEASON
The five MLS clubs in the Concacaf Champions League will get an early start to preseason training camp, beginning just 11 days into the new year. All other MLS clubs can kick off as early as January 18.

Preseason kickoff (Champions League teams): Sat., January 11
Preseason kickoff (all other MLS teams): Sat., January 18

2020 ROSTER DEADLINES
Clubs are required to be roster compliant on the day before the start of the 2020 MLS regular season (February 28).
Rosters will freeze ahead of the final playoff push on September 1 and no roster changes are permitted until after 2020 MLS Cup.

Roster Compliance: Fri., February 28
Roster Freeze: Tues., September 1

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