Major League Soccer (MLS)

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Governance

Major League Soccer’s decade-long, $2.5bn-plus global streaming rights contract with Apple may end up being one of sport’s greatest-ever media deals, commissioner Don Garber has claimed.
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Media

Major League Soccer has taken a stake in OneFootball in a deal that will make the league's highlights widely available on the global football media platform.
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Major League Soccer has appointed the Deltatre-owned Sportec Solutions as its video assistant referee (VAR) technology provider as the league's 29th season gets underway.
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Attendance

The arrival of Lionel Messi pushed Major League Soccer into the worldwide soccer conversation and helped the league overdeliver on its expectations for global media partner Apple, commissioner Don Garber…
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Media

Lionel Messi's arrival in Major League Soccer sent subscriptions to Apple's MLS Season Pass soaring, according to new figures released. The tech company, in the first year of its 10-year, $2.5bn (€2.3
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LG Smart TV owners in the United States are to receive Major League Soccer's Apple Season Pass free of charge for two months
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Media

Apple has spoken publicly for the first time about its coverage of Major League Soccer (MLS), deeming the first few months of the long-term partnership to have been a success and "better than forecasted"
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Fan Engagement

Short-form video platform TikTok has signed a 'multi-year' agreement with Major League Soccer to become an 'Official Partner' of the league
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Data

Major League Soccer has agreed a multi-year deal with sports technology companies Sportec Solutions and Deltatre to create data feeds from all MLS matches for Apple’s MLS Season Pass service.
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Host Broadcast & Production

Major League Soccer has appointed the IMG agency and outside broadcast and services provider NEP Group to support live match and studio productions ahead of the start of its 10-year streaming deal with…
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Media

Technology giant Apple is moving away from convention in the selling of commercials around its Major League Soccer coverage and is asking sponsors to buy season-long package spots rather than individual…
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League, technology giant further their planning for start of historic rights deal
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Major League Soccer has announced a four-year, English- and Spanish-language domestic rights deal with Fox Sports starting with the 2023 season, ending a long-standing partnership with ESPN which had carried…
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Major League Soccer will potentially only have Fox Sports as a domestic linear rights partner in the United States in 2023 after both ESPN and TelevisaUnivision reportedly declined to carry select, non-exclusive…
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Tech giant Apple has gained the rights to place the Apple TV logo on the sleeves of all 29 Major League Soccer teams as part of the landmark, 10-year global rights deal between the two parties.
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Events

Major League Soccer's championship game generated its largest domestic television audience since 1997 as Los Angeles FC dramatically defeated Philadelphia Union on penalty kicks at Banc of California Stadium…
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Events

Ahead of Major League Soccer’s MLS Cup on Saturday between Los Angeles FC and the Philadelphia Union, league commissioner Don Garber said he is not pressuring Merritt Paulson to sell the Portland Timbers, a…
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Media

Liga MX president Mikel Arriola has revealed that the Mexican football league will centrally market its clubs’ television rights for the Leagues Cup, the regional club competition it organises alongside N…