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Apple TV to Offer MLS Games Without Season Pass, Report Says
Apple and Major League Soccer will include all MLS matches in the base Apple TV subscription from 2026, eliminating the $79 Season Pass and broadening access for fans worldwide.
- Beginning in 2026, Apple and Major League Soccer will remove the MLS Season Pass paywall and fold every MLS match into Apple TV, ending the Season Pass add-on after the 2025 season.
- Apple intends to enhance the value of Apple TV subscriptions and broaden MLS's fanbase ahead of the FIFA World Cup in North America next year, said Stevenson, 'Let's put it on Apple TV,' and we said, 'We're all in.'
- Starting next season, fans worldwide can watch all competitions with Apple TV, including MLS matches, Leagues Cup, and MLS Cup Playoffs, with no blackouts in over 100 countries.
- Apple's sports acquisitions, including F1, follow its $140 million annual investment in Formula 1 rights after outbidding ESPN, positioning MLS alongside F1 in the Apple TV catalogue.
- With Apple TV priced at $12.99 per month in the U.S., Apple reportedly reaches significantly more than 45 million viewers and prior free matches boosted Sunday Night Soccer ratings.
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Apple TV is getting MLS games at no extra cost
Starting with the 2026 Major League Soccer (MLS) season, “all MLS matches” will be available to Apple TV subscribers “at no additional cost,” Apple and the MLS announced today. Since the 2023 MLS season, streaming MLS games has required an MLS Season Pass subscription, which was available on its own or for a discount for Apple TV subscribers. But next year, like with Apple’s upcoming F1 streaming for Apple TV subscribers, MLS games will be bundl…
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The platform announced that it will broadcast the regular campaign, the playoffs, the Leagues Cup, the MLS All-Star Game, the Champions Cup and more.
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