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2025 MLS Playoff Glance
The MLS postseason features a best-of-3 First Round format with 16 teams competing across the U.S. and Canada to decide the 2025 champion by December 6.
- On Wednesday, Oct. 22, the 2025 MLS Playoffs began with first-round, best-of-three matchups, concluding with the MLS Championship on Saturday, Dec. 6.
- The playoff bracket divides into Eastern and Western conferences that feed into conference semifinals and conference finals in November, with first-round winners advancing accordingly.
- Orlando opened on the road at Chicago on Wednesday, Oct. 22, with Salt Lake visiting Portland; the Orlando/Chicago winner faces Philadelphia on Sunday, Oct. 26, and Columbus visits Cincinnati Monday, Oct. 27.
- Winners of these series move on to conference semifinals beginning in late October and early November, with first-round winners advancing and some matchups including 'x-if necessary' games into early November.
- The postseason determines the 2025 MLS champion, with conference final winners advancing toward the title during the late October–November schedule.
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Major League Soccer announced the timing and transmission details of the First Round, in a series to the best of three of the MLS 2025 Playoffs.
·Los Angeles, United States
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Wednesday, Oct. 22: Orlando at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.
·Minneapolis, United States
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Coverage Details
Total News Sources17
Leaning Left5Leaning Right2Center9Last UpdatedBias Distribution56% Center
Bias Distribution
- 56% of the sources are Center
56% Center
L 31%
C 56%
13%
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