Major League Soccer (MLS)

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Marc Badain, lead executive on Oak View Group’s dramatic arena and entertainment complex planned for Las Vegas, Nevada. Fisher and Russo also discuss a recently completed stadium funding plan for the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills, a $100m financing round for trading card and collectibles company Collectors Holdings Inc., Sorare’s expanding presence in the United States through a new agreement with Major League Soccer, college basketball’s Final Four, and the forthcoming debut of Major League Baseball games on Apple TV+.

Fantasy sports-based digital collectable company makes breakthrough in North American market while partnership offers MLS a new means to engage global soccer fanbase. Bob Williams reports.

Major League Soccer has secured a multiyear partnership with online food delivery service DoorDash, which has been designated the official on-demand delivery platform of MLS, youth development program …

Major League Soccer has taken its first step into the metaverse by securing a partnership, alongside the MLS Players Association, with GreenPark Sports, the Los Angeles, California-based publisher and…

Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber has said that market engagement is likely to be more of a determining factor than market size in regards to potential future expansion in the league

Social media influencer Noah Beck, who has a combined 45 million followers, has joined Major League Soccer in the new position of “social playmaker.” 

Major League Soccer has enlisted some of the biggest personalities in the league, including a number of celebrity team owners, for the first broadcast spot of its “Our Soccer” campaign for the 2022 sea…

Billionaires Wes Edens and Nassef Sawiris, who are majority owners of Premier League team Aston Villa, have entered into exclusive negotiations with Major League Soccer about securing an expansion team…

MLS Next Pro senior executives Charles Altchek and Ali Curtis speak to SportBusiness about the lower-division league's sporting and business strategy, the relationship with USL and the crucial role independent teams will play.

Major League Soccer is reportedly seeking $300m (€267m) a year for its new domestic rights deal, which would begin at the start of the 2023 season.

Major League Soccer's esports property eMLS is planning to resume in-person competition for the first time since February 2020, with live events planned for next year in Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois;…

Las Vegas is the clear frontrunner to secure Major League Soccer's 30th team, league commissioner Don Garber has disclosed

Major League Soccer has unveiled its new third-tier, lower-division league which debuts in 2022 as MLS Next Pro

MLS vice president of media Seth Bacon tells SportBusiness the league would jump at the opportunity to stage annual games on Thanksgiving Day after the historic viewership success of the recent Colorado-Portland game on Fox.

Major League Soccer's inaugural game on Thanksgiving Day proved an immense success, with Portland Timbers' 1-0 victory over Colorado Rapids securing 1

In this week’s episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Stan Chia, Vivid Seats chief executive. Fisher and Russo also discuss NBC Sports’ record-setting rights renewal with the Premier League for the United States, the introduction of a dramatic series of 2022 purse and bonus increases at the PGA tour, further advances in the attempted reboot of the United States Football League, and the pending departure of Major League Soccer president and deputy commissioner Mark Abbott.