2013 Major League Soccer season
| Season | 2013 |
|---|---|
| MLS Cup | Sporting Kansas City (2nd title) |
| Supporters' Shield | New York Red Bulls (1st shield) |
| Matches played | 323 |
| Goals scored | 845 (2.62 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Camilo (22 goals) |
| Biggest home win |
NE 5–0 LA (Jun 2) MTL 5-0 HOU (Aug 24) LA 5-0 CHV (Oct 6) |
| Biggest away win |
CHV 0–5 POR (Oct 26) |
| Highest scoring | 8 goals: MTL 5-3 PHI (May 25) |
| Longest winning run | 5 matches: Seattle Sounders FC (Aug 25 – Sep 13) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 15 matches: Portland Timbers (Mar 16 – Jun 23) |
| Longest winless run | 13 matches: D.C. United (Mar 16 – Jun 22) |
| Longest losing run | 7 matches: D.C. United (Mar 23 – May 11) Chivas USA (May 5 – Jun 24) |
| Highest attendance | 67,385 POR @ SEA (Aug 25) |
| Lowest attendance | 5,123 POR @ CHV (Sep 14) |
| Average attendance | 18,594 |
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The 2013 Major League Soccer season is the 101st season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer in the United States and Canada, the 35th with a national first-division league, and the 18th season of Major League Soccer. The season features 19 total clubs (16 from the United States, 3 from Canada).
The regular season began on March 2, when Sporting Kansas City defeated the Philadelphia Union 3–1 at PPL Park. The 2013 Major League Soccer All-Star Game was held on July 31, 2013 in Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas (hosted by Sporting Kansas City). The regular season ended on October 27. The New York Red Bulls won the Supporters' Shield and Sporting Kansas City went on to win the MLS Cup.
†Actual capacity is higher; seats rationed for soccer games
Note: All teams use Adidas as kit manufacturer.
Major League Soccer employs 12 methods to acquire players. These include: signing players on transfers/free transfers as is done in most of the world; via trades; drafting players through mechanisms such as the MLS SuperDraft, MLS Supplemental Draft, or MLS Re-Entry Draft; rarely used methods which cover extreme hardship and injury replacement; signing players as Designated Players or Homegrown Players; placing a discovery claim on players; waivers; and methods peculiar to MLS such as through allocation or a weighted lottery.
The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a U.S. National Team player who signs with MLS after playing abroad, or a former MLS player who returns to the League after having gone to a club abroad for a transfer fee. The allocation rankings may also be used in the event two or more clubs file a request for the same player on the same day. The allocations will be ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2012 season, taking playoff performance into account.
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