NEW YORK.- In its transition to the international calendar, the MLS In 2027, it will play a short season of only 14 days of the regular phase and playoffs that will be called the “sprint season,” the North American league detailed this Thursday.
The MLS had already announced last November the organization of this campaign of just four months, between February and May, to later change to a summer to spring season format aligned with that of the main leagues in the world.
In this way, starting with the 2027-2028 campaign, the MLS will start in the month of July and will crown the champion at the end of May.
Before that, the “sprint season” will offer a lightning championship in which the 30 teams will compete with all their 14 conference rivals in a regular phase between February and April.
The top eight teams from both the Eastern and Western Conferences will advance to the playoffs with single-game eliminations until the final in May.
This transformation will occur one year after USA organize the second in 2026 World of his story, this time with Canada and Mexicoin which hopes are placed for the take-off of “soccer” in the North American giant.
The calendar change, among other repercussions, will allow the MLS transfer window to be aligned with the international market.
The teams will thus have more opportunities to buy and sell footballers without these operations impacting their squad in the middle of the season.
In the current format of the MLS, which this year is playing its 31st season, the campaign extends uninterruptedly over almost 10 months, from the start of the regular phase at the end of February until the beginning of December.
He Inter Miami of Lionel Messi He is the current defender of the title.
FIFA approves more female coaches in women’s football
The FIFA gave the green light this Thursday to a rule to encourage a greater number of female coaches in its women’s football competitions, mainly the World of national teams and the future Club World Cup.
“To promote gender equality,” these tournaments “will from now on include the regulatory obligation that the head coach and/or at least one of the assistant coaches (…) be women,” the organization said in a statement.
In the last Women’s World Cup, played in 2023 in Australia and New Zealandonly 12 of the 32 teams had a woman at the head of their coaching staff, a proportion similar to that in the previous one, that of France 2019.
The next national team World Cup will be in Brazil in 2027.
Following the model launched in 2025 with the expanded Club World Cup, FIFA will launch the women’s version of that competition in January 2028, at a venue to be decided.
