{"id":173257,"date":"2026-02-20T19:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173257\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:15:09","slug":"texas-mls-teams-kick-off-season-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/173257\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas&#8217; MLS teams kick off season this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEXAS \u2014 Hope springs eternal as Texas\u2019 Major League Soccer (MLS) teams begin regular-season action Saturday. All three Texas teams, Austin FC, FC Dallas and Houston Dynamo FC, will kick off their season schedule on the same day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.austinfc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Austin FC<\/a> will play against Minnesota United FC at Q2 Stadium. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcdallas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FC Dallas<\/a> will host Toronto FC at Toyota Stadium, and Houston Dynamo FC will take on Chicago Fire FC at Shell Energy Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportico.com\/feature\/mls-soccer-team-value-ranking-1234689586\/?tpcc=pompliano&amp;utm_source=edit-vip&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslocal_austin&amp;stream=top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an article in Sportico<\/a> listing the financial value of all teams in MLS, Austin FC is the highest-valuated team in Texas. Austin&#8217;s only professional sports team added 5% to their total value for a bottom line of $910 million, ranking them seventh overall in the MLS. Houston Dynamo FC is worth $600 million, placing them at 22nd on the list. FC Dallas is worth $555 million, which leaves them at 27th.<\/p>\n<p>The most valuable team in MLS is Inter Miami CF, the home of superstar Lionel Messi, and worth $1.45 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEXAS \u2014 Hope springs eternal as Texas\u2019 Major League Soccer (MLS) teams begin regular-season action Saturday. All three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[556,555,132,134,133,102,56,1062,731,154,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-173257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-app-professional-sports","9":"tag-app-sports","10":"tag-austin","11":"tag-austin-headlines","12":"tag-austin-news","13":"tag-dallas","14":"tag-houston","15":"tag-mike-dalonzo","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}