{"id":65042,"date":"2025-11-30T04:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/65042\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T04:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T04:23:09","slug":"mls-cup-2025-is-set-inter-miami-vs-vancouver-whitecaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/65042\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS Cup 2025 is set! Inter Miami vs. Vancouver Whitecaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      When<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, December 6 | 2:30 pm ET\/11:30 am PT<\/p>\n<p>\n      Where<\/p>\n<p>Chase Stadium | Fort Lauderdale, Florida<\/p>\n<p>\n      How to watch &amp; stream<\/p>\n<p>MLS Season Pass, Apple TV<br \/>\nUSA: FOX, FOX Deportes<br \/>\nCanada: TSN, RDS<\/p>\n<p>Miami and Vancouver are both making their first MLS Cup appearance, ensuring a first-time champion to end the league&#8217;s 30th season.<\/p>\n<p>During April, these sides met in the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/concacaf-champions-league\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a> semifinals. The Whitecaps advanced 5-1 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/playoffs\/2025\/bracket\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs Bracket<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Round One: 2-1 series win vs. Nashville SC<br \/>\nEastern Conference Semifinals: 4-0 win at FC Cincinnati<br \/>\nEastern Conference Final: 5-1 win vs. New York City FC<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami have found another level during the postseason, outscoring their opponents by a 17-4 margin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/lionel-messi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Messi<\/a> has provided a playoff-record 13 goal contributions (6g\/7a) after taking home the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/inter-miami-s-lionel-messi-wins-2025-mls-golden-boot-presented-by-audi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 MLS Golden Boot presented by Audi<\/a> with 29g\/19a during the regular season. Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/tadeo-allende\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tadeo Allende<\/a> has scored eight goals to tie former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/la-galaxy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Galaxy<\/a> striker Carlos Ruiz for the single-season playoff record.<\/p>\n<p>Since their Messi era began in July 2023, Inter Miami have won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/leagues-cup\/2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Leagues Cup<\/a> (2023) and Supporters&#8217; Shield (2024) titles.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they&#8217;ll look to add the Philip F. Anschutz Trophy during head coach Javier Mascherano&#8217;s first season at the helm. That would send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/jordi-alba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordi Alba<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/sergio-busquets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sergio Busquets<\/a> out as champions after the FC Barcelona and Spain legends announced their planned retirements earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Round One: 2-0 series win vs. FC Dallas<br \/>\nWestern Conference Semifinals: 2-2 draw vs. LAFC, PK win<br \/>\nWestern Conference Final: 3-1 win at San Diego FC<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver have enjoyed a dream 2025 season, earning a club-record 63 points during the regular season in addition to making the Concacaf Champions Cup final and winning a fourth straight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/canadian-championship\/2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Championship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes during head coach Jesper S\u00f8rensen&#8217;s first campaign, a run that was turbo-charged by the mid-season signing of Germany and Bayern Munich legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/thomas-muller\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas M\u00fcller<\/a>. He&#8217;s produced 9g\/4a in 12 matches across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Center back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/tristan-blackmon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristan Blackmon<\/a> and midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/sebastian-berhalter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Berhalter<\/a>, who both made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/2025-mls-best-xi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 MLS Best XI<\/a>, are chasing spots on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/us-men-s-national-team\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United States<\/a>&#8216; roster at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/ali-ahmed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Ahmed<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/canada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/jayden-nelson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Nelson<\/a> (Canada) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/andres-cubas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andr\u00e9s Cubas<\/a> (Paraguay) are also on a World Cup trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>Leading scorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/brian-white\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brian White<\/a> recently returned from a hamstring injury, and club captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/ryan-gauld\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Gauld<\/a>&#8216;s workload has gradually increased following a long-term knee injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Saturday, December 6 | 2:30 pm ET\/11:30 am PT Where Chase Stadium | Fort Lauderdale, Florida How&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38585,5429,123,125,124,38586,5426,4959,4798],"class_list":["post-65042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-essentials","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miavstbc-12-06-2025","tag-mls-cup-playoffs","tag-sendtonews","tag-vancouver-whitecaps-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65042","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=65042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}