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Blue Notes: MLS Expansion Update for San Diego, Las Vegas, Detroit, Phoenix, Tampa

There is just so much happening around the soccer world, particularly American and Kansas City soccer, let’s hit the topics you may have missed.

MLS Expansion - 30th Team by End of 2023

Major League Soccer had been expanding at a breakneck pace. In recent years they’ve added teams in Charlotte, Austin, Miami, Nashville, Cincinnati and a second LA team (LAFC). In 2023 St. Louis City SC will kick off. They will be the league’s 29th team.

MLS had hoped to announce their 30th team over the last couple of years. Most recently, they had given themselves a first quarter of 2022 deadline, but as you can see, that didn’t happen.