The 2025 MLS season begins with San Diego FC joining the league, Canadian teams starting away, and a focus on afternoon games in Toronto.
Major League Soccer will kick off its 2025 regular season Feb. 22 with all three Canadian teams opening on the road. Inter Miami hosts New York City FC in the first of 13 games opening day. Montreal visits Atlanta while Toronto plays at D.C. United. The league grows to 30 teams in its 30th season with the addition of expansion San Diego FC, which opens play Feb. 23 at the champion Los Angeles Galaxy. Vancouver visits Portland in the other Feb. 23 game.
The Whitecaps' home opener is March 2 against the high-flying Galaxy. Toronto’s home opener is March 15 against Chicago. CF Montreal doesn’t play at home until April 12 when it hosts Charlotte FC following road games at Atlanta, Minnesota, Vancouver, D.C. United, Nashville, Chicago and Columbus.Teams will once again play a 34-game regular season, with 17 at home and 17 on the road. Clubs play conference opponents twice, once at home and once away. Each team will also play six different cross-conference opponents.Seven of Toronto’s home games will be in the afternoon, a scheduling change fans had wanted after a heavy slate of evening contests. The afternoon matchups include a visit by Vancouver on March 29 and Lionel Messi’s Miami on Sept. 27.As Canadian champions, the Whitecaps are also in the CONCACAF Champions Cup and open their first-round matchup Feb. 20 in Costa Rica against Deportivo Saprissa, with the second leg a week later at B.C. Place. MLS will pause play June 15-24 for the FIFA Club World Cup, which features both Miami and the Seattle Sounders, and the CONCACAF Gold Cup
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