Paul Tenorio

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The Athletic FC Podcast · How can MLS become an elite league? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

So...

Everything in the league, the foundation is there.

It's now acting upon it.

And that's actually the hard part is getting 30 owners on board about this is the way forward.

when you see how big this was, is there any regret that some of these sporting changes that are coming weren't ready for 2026?

What does MLS 3.0 look like?

By the end of MLS 3.0, whenever that is, let's say 10 years from now.

Yeah, so for its entire history, MLS has played on the kind of annual calendar.

The season starts in late February and MLS comes and runs in December, second week of December.

And recently they voted to flip it to align better with the European League.

So MLS season will now start in July and it will run the end of July and it will run through late May.

And that's done so that it can be a bigger participant in the transfer market.

You know, typically now the summer window, which is when most of the business gets done, happened in the middle of the Major League Soccer season.

It was a deterrent to sell your best players because you wanted to be able to make a run for a trophy.

And also, you couldn't really participate in the market as actively to buy players because you don't want to make this enormous investment.

You only get half a season out of that player at the beginning of the contract.

So this was done to better align the league.

And it's a massive decision because the weather, it's a continental league, right?

So the weather is very difficult for the northern markets to play more games in November and in February and to lose the summer.

But it was an important one for the sporting side of the league, which is where these decisions now have to start to focus.

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