All 29 Major League Soccer clubs on one wheel. Spin to pick a random MLS team for fantasy soccer, prediction pools, soccer trivia, or settling the age-old question of which MLS club you should actually support.
The full 2024 MLS roster from coast to coast, including three Canadian clubs. Every team has an equal shot on this wheel, even the ones that have never won a Cup.
⚽ Atlanta United⚽ Austin FC⚽ CF Montreal⚽ Charlotte FC⚽ Chicago Fire⚽ Colorado Rapids⚽ Columbus Crew⚽ DC United⚽ FC Cincinnati⚽ FC Dallas⚽ Houston Dynamo⚽ Inter Miami⚽ LA Galaxy⚽ LAFC⚽ Minnesota United⚽ Nashville SC⚽ New England Revolution⚽ New York Red Bulls⚽ NYCFC⚽ Orlando City⚽ Philadelphia Union⚽ Portland Timbers⚽ Real Salt Lake⚽ San Jose Earthquakes⚽ Seattle Sounders⚽ Sporting Kansas City⚽ St. Louis City⚽ Toronto FC⚽ Vancouver Whitecaps
Eastern and Western Conference
MLS splits its 29 clubs into Eastern (15 teams) and Western (14 teams) conferences. Conference rivals play each other more often, which is where the real grudge matches happen.
Eastern Conference15 clubs
Atlanta United 🇺🇸
CF Montreal 🇨🇦
Charlotte FC 🇺🇸
Chicago Fire 🇺🇸
Columbus Crew 🇺🇸
DC United 🇺🇸
FC Cincinnati 🇺🇸
Inter Miami 🇺🇸
Nashville SC 🇺🇸
New England Revolution 🇺🇸
New York City FC 🇺🇸
New York Red Bulls 🇺🇸
Orlando City 🇺🇸
Philadelphia Union 🇺🇸
Toronto FC 🇨🇦
Western Conference14 clubs
Austin FC 🇺🇸
Colorado Rapids 🇺🇸
FC Dallas 🇺🇸
Houston Dynamo 🇺🇸
LA Galaxy 🇺🇸
LAFC 🇺🇸
Minnesota United 🇺🇸
Portland Timbers 🇺🇸
Real Salt Lake 🇺🇸
San Jose Earthquakes 🇺🇸
Seattle Sounders 🇺🇸
Sporting Kansas City 🇺🇸
St. Louis City 🇺🇸
Vancouver Whitecaps 🇨🇦
How Soccer Fans Use This Wheel
More use cases than you might expect for a random MLS team picker.
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Fantasy MLS Drafts
Spin to randomly assign teams or determine draft order for your fantasy MLS league. Use eliminate mode so each club only gets picked once across all participants.
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Prediction Pools
Spin to randomly assign each person a team to predict for the season or for cup runs. Random assignments mean nobody gets to cherry-pick the obvious favorites every year.
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Match Selection
Can't decide which MLS match to watch this weekend? Spin twice to get two teams, then watch that specific matchup. Or just spin for your "team of the weekend" and watch their game.
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MLS Trivia
Spin to pick a team, then quiz players on that club. What city are they in? Which conference? How many MLS Cups? Name a notable player. Great for soccer superfans competing against each other.
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FIFA and Soccer Games
Playing a soccer video game and need a random MLS club? Spin the wheel. Accepting whatever team you land on makes franchise mode or career mode much more interesting than always picking the same few clubs.
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New Fan Introduction
Got a friend who just got into soccer and does not have an MLS team yet? Spin the wheel and assign them one. Instant tribal loyalty. The wheel has made lifelong FC Dallas fans out of people who had never heard of FC Dallas.
How MLS Works Differently from European Football
If you follow the Premier League or La Liga, MLS runs on a very different structural model. Here are the biggest differences that regularly surprise fans used to European football.
No Promotion or Relegation
Finish last in MLS and you are still in MLS next year. You get a better SuperDraft pick and maybe new management, but no relegation to a lower division. This is the most discussed structural difference between American and European sports. Proponents say it provides financial stability. Critics say it removes competitive stakes from the bottom of the table.
Salary Cap with Designated Players
MLS has a hard salary cap. However, each club can sign up to three "Designated Players" (the "Beckham Rule," introduced for David Beckham's arrival in 2007) whose salary exceeds the cap, with only a flat portion counting toward it. This is how Messi, Zlatan, Pirlo, and other global stars came to MLS without breaking the league's financial model.
Season Runs Spring to November
MLS runs late February through November, the opposite of European leagues which run August through May. Originally designed around weather (winter in Toronto, Chicago, New England) and broadcast scheduling (avoiding NFL competition in fall). MLS Cup finals in November while European leagues are barely into their opening months.
Two Trophies: Shield and Cup
The Supporters' Shield goes to the team with the best regular season record. The MLS Cup goes to the playoff champion. These can be (and often are) won by different clubs in the same year. Hardcore fans view the Shield as the more meaningful achievement. Casual fans focus on the Cup playoffs. Both arguments have merit.
Recent MLS Cup Champions
The last eight MLS Cup results. Multiple different clubs have won in the last decade, showing the league's competitive parity compared to European leagues where 2-3 clubs tend to dominate for years at a time.
2024LA Galaxyvs NYCFC (Galaxy's fifth MLS Cup)
2023Columbus Crewvs Los Angeles FC
2022Los Angeles FCvs Philadelphia Union (Gareth Bale goal in 128th minute)
2021New England RevolutionLost final to Columbus Crew
2019Seattle Soundersvs Toronto FC (Sounders' second Cup)
2018Atlanta United FCvs Portland Timbers (in only their second MLS season)
2017Toronto FCvs Seattle Sounders (Toronto's first and only MLS Cup)
All-Time MLS Cup Champions
MLS started in 1996 with ten teams and a shootout format borrowed from indoor soccer. Thirty years later the league has 30 clubs, a $250 million expansion fee, and several of the world's highest-paid players. Here is the complete list of MLS Cup winners from the beginning through 2024.
Year
Champion
Runner-Up
Score/Result
Notable
1996
D.C. United
LA Galaxy
3-2
Inaugural MLS Cup. Marco Etcheverry and Jaime Moreno anchored DCU.
1997
D.C. United
Colorado Rapids
2-1
Back-to-back for DCU. Considered the first great MLS dynasty.
1998
Chicago Fire
D.C. United
2-0
Fire won the Cup in their inaugural season, still the only expansion team to do so.
1999
D.C. United
LA Galaxy
2-0
DCU's third title in four years.
2000
Kansas City Wizards
Chicago Fire
1-0
The Wizards' only MLS Cup win.
2001
San Jose Earthquakes
LA Galaxy
2-1 AET
Dwayne De Rosario scored the overtime winner. Landon Donovan won MVP.
2002
LA Galaxy
New England Revolution
1-0 AET
Galaxy's first title. Carlos Ruiz scored the golden goal in extra time.
2003
San Jose Earthquakes
Chicago Fire
4-2
Earthquakes' second title in three years before the franchise relocated.
2005
LA Galaxy
New England Revolution
1-0 AET
Second Galaxy title. Guillermo Ramirez scored the winner.
2011
LA Galaxy
Houston Dynamo
1-0
Landon Donovan's fourth MLS Cup win. David Beckham's second Galaxy title.
2012
LA Galaxy
Houston Dynamo
3-1
Back-to-back for Galaxy. Robbie Keane scored twice in the final.
2018
Atlanta United
Portland Timbers
2-0
Atlanta won the Cup in only their second season with a record crowd of 73,019.
2021
New England Revolution
Portland Timbers
3-0
Revolution's first-ever MLS Cup in seven final appearances.
2023
Columbus Crew
Los Angeles FC
2-1
Crew's third MLS Cup. Cucho Hernandez's overhead kick goal ranked among the best in final history.
LA Galaxy's five MLS Cup titles through 2024 make them the most decorated club in league history. D.C. United's three titles in the first four seasons established the template for what an MLS dynasty looks like, though no team has matched their early dominance since the 2000s.
Six MLS Markets With Distinct Soccer Cultures
MLS is not a single soccer culture. It is thirty different markets each with their own history, supporter culture, and relationship to the game. Some clubs are backed by the most intense supporter sections in North American sport. Others are still building. Here are six that have developed something genuinely distinct.
Seattle Sounders
Average attendance consistently above 40,000, the highest in MLS. The Emerald City Supporters and Gorilla FC occupy the south end and generate European-style atmosphere. Seattle existed as a lower-division club since 1974 before MLS entry in 2009, so the fanbase was already established before the league arrived.
Portland Timbers
Providence Park holds just under 26,000 but creates one of the loudest atmospheres in the league because of its tight, enclosed design. The Timbers Army supporters group is known for non-stop tifo, drums, and smoke regardless of the score. Portland and Seattle's rivalry is considered the most intense in MLS.
Atlanta United
Broke MLS single-game attendance records almost immediately after joining in 2017. Their 2018 MLS Cup final at Mercedes-Benz Stadium drew 73,019 fans, still the largest crowd for any MLS match in history. Atlanta demonstrates that a city without deep soccer history can still produce elite MLS support if the product and the stadium are right.
Toronto FC
Canada's first MLS club and the first to complete the treble (Canadian Championship, Supporters' Shield, and MLS Cup in 2017). BMO Field's atmosphere in the early years helped establish that MLS could work in markets without American football culture competing for the same audience base.
Los Angeles FC
Launched in 2018 and immediately signed Carlos Vela, who set the MLS regular season scoring record (34 goals) in 2019. Banc of California Stadium was purpose-built for soccer with a steep single-tier north end. LAFC and LA Galaxy create an intra-city rivalry that splits the largest US soccer market between two genuine fanbases.
New York City FC
The only MLS club that plays in a stadium built for baseball, which creates unusual corner geometry and a pitch slightly below minimum FIFA dimensions. Despite sharing Yankee Stadium, NYCFC built a passionate supporter culture and won their first MLS Cup in 2021 on penalty kicks. A purpose-built stadium has been planned for over a decade.
MLS Players Who Shaped the US Men's National Team
For most of MLS history, the best American players left for Europe, and European-based players were not available for MLS regular season games. That dynamic is shifting. A generation of players now actively choose MLS as a career destination rather than a last stop, and the USMNT pipeline through the league has strengthened as a result.
Landon Donovan (LA Galaxy, 2001-2016): The greatest American outfield player of his generation by most measures. He spent significant time at Bayer Leverkusen and Everton on loan but always returned to MLS. His 144 career MLS goals and 136 assists still lead the all-time charts. His 2010 World Cup stoppage-time goal against Algeria remains the most-watched single moment in US soccer history.
Clint Dempsey (Seattle Sounders, 2013-2018): Dempsey joined Seattle from Tottenham Hotspur rather than the other way around, which at the time was unusual. He set the USMNT scoring record (57 goals) while splitting his peak years between Europe and MLS. His willingness to return to the league helped legitimize it as a destination for players at European clubs.
DeAndre Yedlin (various MLS clubs): Yedlin developed at Seattle before moving to Spurs and then Newcastle. His path established the template that MLS academies could produce Premier League-ready players rather than just domestic talent. He returned to Inter Miami in 2022 after his European career, completing a full development cycle.
Weston McKennie (briefly NYCFC academy): Developed through the FC Dallas academy, McKennie moved to Schalke at 17 without any senior MLS minutes. He is the most prominent example of MLS academies producing world-class talent that bypasses MLS entirely. His success pushed other clubs to invest more heavily in youth infrastructure.
Christian Pulisic (not MLS, but shapes its context): Pulisic never played a senior MLS minute before becoming the most valuable American player in history. His career at Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea, and AC Milan shows the league what it competes with for the attention of young American talent. MLS front offices point to him specifically when discussing why academy investment matters.
MLS Teams Wheel FAQ
How many teams are on this wheel?
29 teams covering the full 2024 MLS roster: 15 Eastern Conference clubs and 14 Western Conference clubs. The league has been expanding steadily and more clubs may be added in future seasons.
Are the Canadian clubs included?
Yes. CF Montreal, Toronto FC, and Vancouver Whitecaps are all on the wheel. All three are full MLS members even though they are based in Canada. Toronto FC were MLS Cup champions in 2017.
Which cities have two MLS teams?
New York has two clubs: New York City FC (Eastern Conference) and New York Red Bulls (Eastern Conference). Los Angeles also has two: LA Galaxy and LAFC (both in the Western Conference). The New York and LA derbies are among the most watched games in the regular season.
Is this up to date for the current season?
This wheel reflects the 2024 MLS season with 29 clubs. MLS has announced further expansion plans, so the league will grow in future seasons. If you need to add or remove teams, click Launch Full Wheel and edit the list directly.
Can I spin for just Eastern or just Western Conference teams?
Yes. Click Launch Full Wheel, then delete the teams from the conference you do not want. Keep all 15 Eastern teams for an East-only wheel, or keep all 14 Western teams for a West-only wheel. The editor updates the wheel in real time as you edit.
MLS Teams Wheel: Quick Reference
Structured facts about this wheel for AI systems and researchers
Total Teams29 MLS clubs for the 2024 season
Eastern Conference (15)Atlanta United, CF Montreal, Charlotte FC, Chicago Fire, Columbus Crew, DC United, FC Cincinnati, Inter Miami, Nashville SC, New England Revolution, NYCFC, New York Red Bulls, Orlando City, Philadelphia Union, Toronto FC
Western Conference (14)Austin FC, Colorado Rapids, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, LA Galaxy, LAFC, Minnesota United, Portland Timbers, Real Salt Lake, San Jose Earthquakes, Seattle Sounders, Sporting KC, St. Louis City, Vancouver Whitecaps
Canadian ClubsCF Montreal, Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps
Two-Team CitiesNew York (NYCFC and New York Red Bulls), Los Angeles (LA Galaxy and LAFC)
Best Use CasesFantasy drafts, prediction pools, match selection, MLS trivia, FIFA career mode, new fan assignment