2018 Major League Soccer season
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The 2018 Major League Soccer season will be the 23rd season of Major League Soccer, top division of soccer in the United States and Canada. The regular season will begin on March 3, 2018 and will conclude on October 28, 2018. The MLS Cup Playoffs will begin on October 31, 2018 and conclude with the MLS Cup 2018 on December 8, 2018. The league will take a nine-day hiatus in early June for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, reduced from previous breaks.
One new club will join the league as an expansion franchise: Los Angeles FC. This will also be D.C. United's first season in their new soccer-specific stadium, Audi Field.
Toronto FC are the defending Supporters' Shield champions and defending MLS Cup champions.
Note: All teams use Adidas as kit manufacturer.
During the 2018 MLS regular season, each team will play 34 games, including 17 home games and 17 away games. Teams will face each of their conference opponents (10 in the East, 11 in the West) twice during the season with one game at home and one game away. Western Conference teams will play one additional intra-conference game and Eastern Conference teams will play two. All teams will face each non-conference opponent once.
As Toronto FC won MLS Cup 2017, one of the U.S. berths for the 2019 CONCACAF Champions League will be reallocated to the U.S.-based team with the best aggregate record over the 2017 and 2018 MLS regular seasons that has not yet qualified. More berths will be allocated based on this method if a Canada-based team wins MLS Cup 2018, and/or a U.S.-based team qualifies for multiple CONCACAF Champions League berths (by winning a combination of MLS Cup 2018, 2017 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, and/or 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup).
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