SuperLiga reborn! I'm hoping the Revs are in the CCL in 2022, but if not, this should be the bare minimum: 2021 Leagues Cup schedule and Liga MX participants announced Wednesday, Jul 7, 2021, 01:08 PM mlssoccer.com Tuesday, August 10 QF4: Sporting Kansas City vs. Club León (Children’s Mercy Park – Kansas City, KS), 8 pm ET (TUDN, ESPN2) QF3: Seattle Sounders FC vs. Tigres UANL (Lumen Field – Seattle, WA), 10 pm ET (TUDN, ESPN2) Wednesday, August 11 QF2: New York City FC vs. Pumas (Yankee Stadium – New York, NY), 8 pm ET (TUDN, ESPN+) Thursday, August 12 QF1: Orlando City SC vs. Santos Laguna (Exploria Stadium – Orlando, FL), 7 pm ET (TUDN, ESPN+)
Yes! I may be in the minority, but after years and years of playing the same MLS clubs over and over, I loved the SuperLiga.
Count me in this minority as well. No one sets out to win the Europa League, they want the Champions League (well, unless they want to create a breakaway competition, that is). But when they get the chance to win it, they revel in it. The more competitions we have a chance to be involved in the better. I want a trophy case that is much more full with trophies of all kinds. Some may mean more than others, but they all have meaning.
SEA in the semi-finals tonight (10pm ET, ESPN2): "We want to get to a final": Seattle Sounders eager for Leagues Cup test vs. Santos Laguna By Ari Liljenwall mlssoccer.com Finals are next Wednesday (Sep 22), in Las Vegas.
Leagues Cup final 2021: How to watch and stream, preview of Seattle Sounders vs. Club León By Phil West mlssoccer.com
Starting in 2023, the top 3 finalists in League Cup qualify for CCL: Historic reimagined Leagues Cup starting in 2023 By MLSsoccer staff Tuesday, Sep 21, 2021, 04:16 PM
Now that the Revs are good enough to actually qualify for this, they are going to start letting every team in.
It sounds like they are going to pause the regular season schedule in both leagues for the month that this takes place. Although it probably means a lot more Wed night games the rest of the year to make up for it.
Still two years away, so I'm just spit-balling here. There will be 47 teams: 18 LMX and 29 MLS (including Charlotte and St Louis). No group stage, so 17 teams get byes in the first round, leaving 15 match ups. Let's say the top 9 MLS teams and top 8 LMX teams get byes. That would mean 10 LMX v MLS matchups in round 1, and 5 MLS v MLS matchups.
This whole attempt to expand in just about every tournament is simply a money grab. They (the owners and everybody who makes money off the games - but doesn't play in them) want to expand the Nations Cup, make the World Cup every two years, etc. It is just going to water down the product. Look at last night's Revs game; in the first half they played the second team, the play wasn't spectacular. It sounds great to the fans, more football! But the toll it will take on the players will be tough to watch, IMHO.
No doubt it is a money grab, but there is more to it than that. It will take a toll, but that's why I think the decision to put the regular season schedule on pause for the month of this tournament is huge. And the teams that get knocked out in the first round will be well rested when the league schedule resumes. I like the USOC, but would you rather watch the Revs B team play the Richmond Kickers, or the A team play a LMX club?
I was looking at it globally. Yes, it would be fun to watch MLS vs LMX. But if the world cup goes every two years; how many games will need to be played every year to see who qualifies? At that point, MLS will have to adopt the world's schedule. Because each summer will be filled with either qualifying or playing the world cup and your team will be without your best players for months.
I'll admit to not having read the details, but if the league break is for 'group play', that's good, but if it's knock-out play, then it's going to lead to some teams overplaying and others underplaying.