Can San Diego kick it? With opening day approaching Saturday, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber expressed hope to pick a 30th team by the end of the year.
MLS has nearly tripled in size from 2004, when it was a 10-team league. St. Louis, the 29th team, starts play Saturday at Austin.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
He mentioned Detroit; Phoenix; Sacramento, California; and Tampa, Florida, as other expansion possibilities. MLS used a mixture of two-leg and single-elimination rounds from 2003-18, then went to a knockout competition the last four years. The league is switching to single-game wild-card matchups and a best-of-three round — last used in 2002. The playoffs revert to a knockout competition for the final eight.“We have been working on trying to find the right format for a really long time.
“It would seem that if you’re a supporter of the game by buying season tickets, whether that’s for Major League Soccer or it's the NWSL or the various other minor leagues, you ought to be able to have a direct or more direct access to tickets for any tournament, whether that's U.S. Soccer matches or that's Copa América-type tournaments or if it's the World Cup,” he said.
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