MLS referees authorize potential strike, file labor complaint as work stoppage looms By Pablo Maurer and Tom Bogert Jan. 22, 2024 ...

MLS is now saying that its teams will not participate in the U.S. Open Cup, the country’s equivalent to England’s FA Cup, effectively severing the only competitive tie the top-tier league has ...

MLS owners ratified a plan to send reserve teams to the 2024 Open Cup. U.S. Soccer had to respond and implicitly answer a provocative question, the “ultimate question,” as two experienced ...

MLS has announced its North American cup competition participation for 2025 and 2026, with an increase in teams featuring in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and a decrease in Leagues Cup participation.

Multiple scenarios currently on the table during negotiations While it has been seven weeks since MLS made their initial proposal on skipping the U.S. Open Cup, there is still not yet a resolution to ...

In a compromise, eight of MLS’s 26 U.S.-based teams will enter the competition and nine others will use their developmental squads from the third division.

MLS announced that its clubs will skip the U.S. Open Cup for the first time in the league’s 29-year history, with teams instead entering their affiliates from the MLS Next Pro development league ...