Black and Red United · Dec 9, 2015
MLS will expand to 28 teams. Will conference realignment follow?
As the league grows, something will have to give to maintain any semblance of scheduling sanity.
You knew this was coming. On the day before MLS Cup the league announced that the Board of Governors had voted to support expanding the 20-team league to 28. You read that correctly - twenty-eight.
MLS is already on its way to reaching 24 teams in the next five years - the Atlanta Nonsense-Names, Miami Beckhams, LA Totally Not Chivas-es, and Minnesota Loons seem all but set to make up the newbie list for that span - but there is more interest than there are expansion slots available.