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Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional soccer league with thirteen teams in the United States and one team in Canada. MLS represents the top tier of the American and Canadian Soccer Pyramids and is comprised of 14 clubs, although the league will expand to 16 clubs by 2010, and plans to expand to 18 teams by 2012. Seasons run from late March or early April to November, with teams playing 30 games each.
A total of 16 clubs have competed in Major League Soccer, but only six have won the MLS Cup: DC United (4 times), the San Jose Earthquakes (twice), the Los Angeles Galaxy (twice), the Houston Dynamo (twice), the Chicago Fire (once), and the Kansas City Wizards (once). The current Major League Soccer champions are the Houston Dynamo, who won back-to-back titles in 2006 and 2007The regular season runs from March 29 to October 26. The 14 teams in the league are split into the Eastern and Western Conferences with seven teams each. Each team plays 30 games over the course of 31 weeks, evenly divided between home and away matches. Each team plays every other team twice, home and away, for a total of 26 games. The remaining four games are intra-conference matches, often highlighting geographic and conference rivalries. The full schedule for the 2008 Major League Soccer season was announced in February 2008. The postseason runs from October 30 to November 23, culminating with MLS Cup 2008 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, CA.
With its win at the MLS Cup, the Houston Dynamo qualified for the final CONCACAF Champions' Cup. DC United also qualified for the CONCACAF Champions' Cup by virtue of its winning the MLS Supporters' Shield for the top regular-season record.
Four American teams will play in the inaugural CONCACAF Champions League in late 2008 and early 2009. The MLS Cup Champion, Supporters' Shield winner, MLS Cup runner-up, and Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup champion will each participate in the tournament. Because the New England Revolution were both the MLS runners-up and Open Cup champions, the MLS team with the next-highest regular season point total, Chivas USA, will participate.[1] D.C. United and the Houston Dynamo will be automatically seeded into the group stage, while New England and Chivas USA will play in a preliminary stage. In addition, Toronto FC may qualify the Canadian slot in the tournament after playing the Vancouver Whitecaps and Montreal Impact of the United Soccer Leagues in a qualifying round.
SuperLiga, an MLS-Primera División de México competition, enters its second year during July and early August. Houston Dynamo (MLS Champion), New England Revolution (MLS runner-up), D.C. United (Supporters' Shield winner and Eastern Conference champion) and Chivas USA (Western Conference champion) will play in the 2008 tournament.