The Main League Soccer common season ends Saturday after eight months and 34 video games for every staff. Twenty-eight of the league’s 29 groups will compete to find out which groups will make the playoffs and which can finish their seasons early.
The seven video games within the Japanese Convention will kick off concurrently at 6 p.m. ET; the seven within the Western Convention will observe swimsuit at 9 p.m. ET.
This annual custom of last-game synchronized play is called Choice Day, and it is among the hallmarks of MLS competitors.
9 groups from every convention qualify for the playoffs, however the place every staff finishes amongst these 9 is consequential. The highest 4 will obtain home-field benefit all through the playoffs, whereas the highest seven will qualify for the playoffs straight.
The eighth and ninth seeds will face each other in a wild-card play-in match to find out which of the 2 will spherical out the playoffs.
There are many storylines for Choice Day. Listed below are the most important:
Japanese Convention
Inter Miami has already confirmed its high seeding for the MLS playoffs, nevertheless it has an opportunity to take issues one step additional within the season’s remaining match.
If Inter Miami beats the New England Revolution at residence in Fort Lauderdale, Miami will set a league regular-season factors file with 74. The 2021 New England staff holds the league file with 73 factors.