On Friday, Major League Soccer announced its plan to replace its teams in the U.S. Open Cup with its developmental MLS Next Pro sides. Five days later, those intentions were met with rejection by U.S.

In 2017, the first year of the Trump administration, the now defunct National American Soccer League sued U.S. Soccer (USSF) over how it uses its power to assign leagues divisional ranks (MLS is ...

As recently as 2011, the professional soccer landscape was in relative stasis. On the men’s side, Major League Soccer (MLS) had only recently stabilized and begun its growth, with fewer than 20 active ...

On Dec. 15, Major League Soccer made a startling announcement: That next season, for the first time since the league's founding in 1996, MLS would not send any teams to the U. S. Open Cup tournament.

Promotion and relegation is a system that is in place in almost every professional soccer league in the world. It’s one that rewards success with the opportunity to climb to higher divisions, punishes ...

MLS was not designed with, or intended to have, promotion and relegation. It’s a mechanism that is almost entirely foreign to American sports, never used in any meaningful capacity in any sport in the ...

The Athletic has obtained the list of referee assignments for this weekend’s Major League Soccer games, which includes officials with widely varying degrees of experience. While some have been ...