{"id":440502,"date":"2026-01-27T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440502\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:34:09","slug":"igaming-news-polymarket-follows-up-nhl-deal-with-mls-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440502\/","title":{"rendered":"iGaming news | Polymarket follows up NHL deal with MLS agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polymarket has become an official partner of Major League Soccer as the prediction market continues to ramp up its presence in the US.<\/p>\n

\"Football\"<\/p>\n

\n\tThe deal follows Polymarket\u2019s agreement with the NHL<\/a>, providing it with proprietary data and rights for the ice hockey league.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the partnership with the MLS football league \u2013 and specifically MLS\u2019 commercial arm, Soccer United Marketing \u2013 Polymarket has become the \u201cofficial and exclusive\u201d prediction market partner of MLS, MLS All-Star Game, MLS Cup presented by Audi and Leagues Cup.<\/p>\n

\n\tPolymarket said it will develop fan experiences across MLS digital platforms with a focus on \u201cenhancing the live match experience and second-screen engagement for fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe partnership incudes safeguards for sporting integrity, the company added.<\/p>\n

\n\tPolymarket CEO and founder Shayne Coplan said the prediction market will give fans a \u201cmore interactive, data-driven way to experience the game and engage with the world\u2019s most popular sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPartnering with Polymarket allows us to integrate prediction markets as a new fan engagement format and position MLS as an early leader among global soccer properties,\u201d added MLS\u2019 deputy commissioner and president of Soccer United Marketing, Gary Stevenson.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe MLS season gets underway on February 21, with the World Cup in North America set to add to the region\u2019s key focus on football this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polymarket has become an official partner of Major League Soccer as the prediction market continues to ramp up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,615,596,21944,141055,142121,15350,22685,575,2041,445,66037,85,2489],"class_list":["post-440502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-betting","tag-football","tag-gambling","tag-igaming","tag-intergame","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-mls","tag-nhl","tag-north-america","tag-online","tag-polymarket","tag-sports","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}