The 2027 MLS Sprint Season will kick off in February and culminate in the Audi 2027 MLS Cup Playoffs and 2027 MLS Cup presented by Audi in May. Not only will the Sprint Season crown an MLS Cup champion, but it will also have international competition implications, determining qualification for the 2028 Concacaf Champions Cup and 2028 Leagues Cup.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Sprint Season will see each MLS team play 14 regular season games from February to April. Regular season\u00a0matches\u00a0will\u00a0consist of\u00a0intra-conference play with teams facing each of their\u00a014\u00a0conference opponents once\u00a0–\u00a0seven\u00a0matches\u00a0at home\u00a0and seven\u00a0matches\u00a0away.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of the regular season,\u00a0the top eight teams in each\u00a0of the two\u00a0conferences\u00a0will qualify for the Audi 2027 MLS Cup Playoffs.\u00a0In each conference, the postseason will be\u00a0played\u00a0in a single-elimination\u00a0bracket\u00a0format\u00a0to\u00a0determine\u00a0a conference champion. The\u00a0Eastern Conference Champion and Western Conference Champion\u00a0will meet in\u00a02027\u00a0MLS Cup presented by Audi.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2027\u00a0Sprint\u00a0Season schedule, including each team\u2019s\u00a0home and away matchups,\u00a0will be announced in the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As previously announced, New York City FC will play home matches during the 2027 MLS Sprint Season at Yankee Stadium and Citi Field. Etihad Park, New York City\u2019s first soccer-specific stadium and the future home of the Club, will open with the beginning of the 2027-28 MLS season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Beginning in the summer of 2027, MLS will adopt a summer-to-spring season format, aligning MLS with the world\u2019s top leagues and marking one of the most significant developments in the league\u2019s history.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2027-28 MLS regular season will kick off in July 2027 and conclude with the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs and MLS Cup presented by Audi in May 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Like many other major international leagues, MLS will\u00a0observe\u00a0a midwinter break from mid-December through early February, with no league matches scheduled in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2027 MLS Sprint Season will kick off in February and culminate in the Audi 2027 MLS Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-387498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}