Deciding on a sport or league’s best teams is extremely subjective by definition. It depends how much one values the many criteria that go into ranking them: trophies and championships won; regular season success; long-term effects on the sport/league; star talent and team quality; entertainment value; and, possibly the toughest, how much a given team’s era allowed for their success.
All of these will be taken into account one way or another in this list of the top 10 squads ever to grace MLS.
Before we get into it, a quick glance at the teams that just missed out:
— 2005 San Jose Earthquakes: The final year before the Earthquakes moved to Houston was also Dominic Kinnear’s second year as head coach.