2016 Major League Soccer season
| Season | 2016 |
|---|---|
| MLS Cup | Seattle Sounders FC (1st title) |
| Supporters' Shield | FC Dallas (1st shield) |
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Champions League (United States) |
Colorado Rapids FC Dallas New York Red Bulls Seattle Sounders FC |
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Champions League qualifying playoff (Canada) |
Toronto FC |
| Matches played | 340 |
| Goals scored | 956 (2.81 per match) |
| Top goalscorer |
Bradley Wright-Phillips (24 goals) |
| Best goalkeeper |
Luis Robles (11 shutouts) |
| Biggest home win | 5 goals: HOU 5–0 DAL (Mar 12) SEA 5–0 DAL (Jul 13) |
| Biggest away win | 7 goals: NYC 0–7 NYR (May 21) |
| Highest scoring | 8 goals: CLB 4–4 MON (May 7) DC 6–2 CHI (Aug 27) |
| Longest winning run | 4 games: New York Red Bulls (May 18 – Jun 19) New York City FC (Jun 18 – Jul 6) LA Galaxy (Jul 4 – Jul 23) Toronto FC (Jul 23 – Aug 6) Seattle Sounders FC (Sep 17 – Oct 2) D.C. United (Sep 24 – Oct 16) New York Red Bulls (Sep 24 – Oct 23) Toronto FC (Oct 23 – Nov 6) Montreal Impact (Oct 27 – Nov 22) |
| Longest unbeaten run | 16 games: New York Red Bulls (Jul 10 – Oct 23) |
| Longest winless run | 10 games: Columbus Crew SC (Jun 1 – Aug 13) |
| Longest losing run | 4 games: New York Red Bulls (Apr 1 – Apr 16) New England Revolution (Jul 31 – Aug 20) Vancouver Whitecaps FC (Jul 31 – Aug 20) Philadelphia Union (Oct 1 – Oct 26) |
| Highest attendance | 60,147 ORL 2–2 RSL (Mar 6) |
| Lowest attendance | 10,144 NE 1–1 POR (Apr 27) |
| Total attendance | 7,345,265 |
| Average attendance | 21,692 |
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The 2016 Major League Soccer season featured 20 total clubs (17 based in the United States, 3 based in Canada). The regular season began on March 6 and ended on October 23. The playoffs began on October 26 and ended on December 10. The defending MLS Cup champions were the Portland Timbers, while the New York Red Bulls were the defending Supporters' Shield winners.
At the end of the regular season, FC Dallas won the Supporters' Shield for the first time, and the Seattle Sounders won their first ever MLS Cup after defeating Toronto FC 5–4 on penalties.
Note: All teams use Adidas as kit manufacturer.
Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.
Regular season
Source:
The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a player who is in the MLS allocation list. The MLS allocation list contains select U.S. National Team players and players transferred outside of MLS garnering a transfer fee of at least $500,000. The allocations will be ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2015 season, taking playoff performance into account.
Once the club uses its allocation ranking to acquire a player, it drops to the bottom of the list. A ranking can be traded provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club’s ranking. At all times each club is assigned one ranking. The rankings reset at the end of each MLS season.
In the 2016 MLS season, 96 games aired in the United States on national television. English-language broadcasts once again included Soccer Sunday doubleheaders — 29 games on ESPN and 5 on ESPN2 (mainly on Sunday afternoons), 4 on Fox, and 30 on Fox Sports 1 (mainly on Sunday evenings). The 2016 season marked MLS's debut on the Fox network channel. Spanish-language broadcasts included 28 games on UniMás (mainly on Friday evenings).
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