{"id":160437,"date":"2026-02-18T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160437\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:47:09","slug":"mls-on-fox-sports-messi-inter-miami-vs-orlando-city-on-may-2-el-trafico-on-july-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160437\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS on FOX Sports: Messi, Inter Miami vs. Orlando City on May 2; El Tr\u00e1fico on July 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Lionel Messi<\/a> to El Tr\u00e1fico, FOX Sports will be home to some of Major League Soccer’s marquee stars and regular season matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FOX Sports unveiled its plan for the 2026 regular season as the league\u2019s U.S. English and Spanish language linear television home. This year\u2019s 34-match regular season television schedule features 15 games on FOX and 19 games on FS1 with every match airing in Spanish on FOX Deportes.<\/p>\n

FOX Sports\u2019 MLS<\/a> regular-season coverage kicks off Saturday, Feb. 21, at 4:30 PM ET on FOX with FC Cincinnati<\/a> hosting Atlanta United FC<\/a>. In total, 25 teams will play on FOX and FS1, including two matches featuring Lionel Messi and reigning MLS Cup champion Inter Miami CF<\/a> from the team\u2019s new Miami Freedom Park stadium on Saturday, May 2, vs. rival Orlando City SC<\/a> at 7:00 PM ET on FS1, and Sunday, May 24, vs. Philadelphia Union<\/a> at 7:00 PM ET on FOX.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The FOX Sports schedule features MLS\u2019s regular season restart following the league\u2019s FIFA World Cup pause with a doubleheader two days before the World Cup final airing Sunday, July 19 on FOX. On Friday, July 17, Nashville SC<\/a> vs. Atlanta United FC open the doubleheader starting at 8:00 PM ET on FOX before LA<\/a> Galaxy takes on LAFC<\/a> in El Tr\u00e1fico at 10:30 PM ET on FS1.<\/p>\n

FS1 and FOX Deportes will have select MLS Cup Playoffs matches before the season concludes on FOX and FOX Deportes with the 2026 MLS Cup final.<\/p>\n

The full FOX Sports regular season slate can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Lionel Messi to El Tr\u00e1fico, FOX Sports will be home to some of Major League Soccer’s marquee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7849,5429,25438,1660,17156,123,125,124,5692,5430,139,14250],"class_list":{"0":"post-160437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-inter-miami-cf","10":"tag-la-galaxy","11":"tag-lionel-messi","12":"tag-los-angeles-fc","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-headlines","15":"tag-miami-news","16":"tag-mls","17":"tag-nashville-sc","18":"tag-orlando","19":"tag-philadelphia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}