2023 Major League Soccer season Stadiums

The 2023 Major League Soccer season is the upcoming 28th season of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. The league will have 29 clubs following the addition of St. Louis City SC as an expansion team in the Western Conference, with Nashville SC moving back to the Eastern Conference. The regular season is scheduled to begin on February 25, 2023, and end on October 21; it will then be followed by the playoffs. The regular schedule was released on December 20, 2022.[1]

Preseason for the 2023 season will start in January 2023 and run into February,[2] and the season will begin on February 25.[3] The regular season will be paused from July 21 to August 19 for the month-long Leagues Cup, during which time MLS teams will play Liga MX opponents.[4] In June 2022, Apple Inc. and MLS announced a ten-year partnership for the broadcast and streaming rights to all MLS and Leagues Cup games, as well as select MLS Next and MLS Next Pro games, on the MLS Season Pass service within the Apple TV app.[5] Fox Sports retained linear MLS TV rights, while for the first time in league history, ESPN will no longer air matches (Univision opted to only air Leagues Cup games, thus also no longer airing MLS regular-season contests after a combined 19 years).[6]

For the first time since its founding, MLS qualification berths for the 2024 CONCACAF Champions League will not be exclusively allocated to American clubs, allowing expatriated Canadian clubs an opportunity to qualify for the tournament without necessarily winning the Canadian Championship.[7]

Los Angeles FC are the reigning MLS Cup and Supporters' Shield champions; Philadelphia Union are the Eastern Conference champions.

Teams