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The average season concludes on Saturday, with Decision Day’s 14-match bonanza figuring out Audi 2024 MLS Cup Playoffs areas and seeding.
What matches are must always-stare? What’s at stake? How’s the postseason field looking out?
Right here is your one-stop-shop primer for what awaits.
All Decision Day matches could presumably presumably also be watched via MLS Season Budge on Apple TV. There are two windows, every with seven games:
- Eastern Convention: Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
- Western Convention: Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
MATCH
WHEN
WATCH
Chicago Fireplace FC vs. Nashville SC
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
D.C. United vs. Charlotte FC
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Inter Miami CF vs. New England Revolution
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
CF Montréal vs. New York Metropolis FC
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
New York Pink Bulls vs. Columbus Crew
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Orlando Metropolis SC vs. Atlanta United
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Philadelphia Union vs. FC Cincinnati
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 6 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Austin FC vs. Colorado Rapids
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 9 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
FC Dallas vs. Wearing Kansas Metropolis
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 9 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Houston Dynamo FC vs. LA Galaxy
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 9 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
LAFC vs. San Jose Earthquakes
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 9 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Minnesota United FC vs. St. Louis CITY SC
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 9 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Staunch Salt Lake vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 9 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Seattle Sounders FC vs. Portland Timbers
Saturday, Oct. 19 – 9 pm ET
Apple TV – MLS Season Budge
Toronto FC are the perfect group no longer competing on Matchday 38.
1. Who gets the East’s final two spots?
Because it stands, D.C. United (eighth location) and CF Montréal (ninth location) withhold the East’s final two playoff spots with 40 aspects apiece. Alternatively, Philadelphia Union (11th location) and Atlanta United (12th location) are quiet in rivalry with 37 aspects apiece. The East’s final two playoff spots will reach down to the wire.
2. Who wins the West?
El Tráfico rivals LA Galaxy and LAFC are the Western Convention frontrunners, and both could presumably presumably emerge from Decision Day maintaining the No. 1 seed. The Galaxy genuine desire a level at Houston to stable it for themselves, while the Unlit & Gold could presumably presumably nab it with a obtain over San Jose and some wait on.
3. Will Inter Miami obtain history?
Inter Miami will set aside a brand new MLS single-season aspects file within the occasion that they beat New England at dwelling. The 2021 Revs are the scorching file-holders with 73 aspects, while Lionel Messi & Co. enter with 71 aspects. The Herons personal already clinched the Supporters’ Defend title and personal MLS Cup internet location hosting precedence.
4. Seeding solidified
The top three seeds within the East are set aside, but New York Metropolis FC can pass Orlando Metropolis SC for a salvage 22 situation within the top four and bid Spherical One internet location hosting rights. Seattle Sounders and Staunch Salt Lake will duke it out for the No. 3 seed within the West, with deal of circulate quiet that it is probably going you’ll presumably presumably presumably also imagine extra down. Meanwhile, Vancouver Whitecaps and Minnesota United look to steer clear of the West’s Wild Card sport.
5. Golden Boot speed
Barring a unhurried miracle, D.C. United’s Christian Benteke will bookend a stellar person season by ending because the league’s top purpose-scorer. The Belgian striker has tallied 23 instances in 2024, four particular of LAFC’s Denis Bouanga and Columbus Crew’s Cucho Hernández.
SCENARIOS
Four groups can clinch an Audi 2024 MLS Cup Playoffs salvage 22 situation, two can create the Western Convention No. 1 seed, and two can clinch dwelling-field aid in Spherical One. Watch the corpulent breakdown here.
TIEBREAKERS
Playoff seeding could presumably presumably reach down to tiebreakers, with a group’s number of wins (1), purpose differential (2) and targets for (3) the first three. Watch the corpulent breakdown here.
General, 18 groups qualify for the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs – the top 9 from the Eastern Convention and the top 9 from the Western Convention.
- Seeds 1-7 in every convention automatically qualify for the Spherical One Easiest-of-3 sequence.
- Seeds 8-9 in every convention qualify for the Wild Card matches.
Four rounds be conscious the Wild Card matches, ending with MLS Cup supplied by Audi on December 7 (internet location hosting rights awarded to the finalist with the handiest typical-season file).
ROUND
WHEN
Wild Card Matches
Tuesday, October 22 – Wednesday, October 23
Spherical One Easiest-of-3 Sequence
Friday, October 25 – Sunday, November 10
Convention Semifinals
Saturday, November 23 – Sunday, November 24
Convention Finals
Saturday, November 30 – Sunday, December 1
MLS Cup supplied by Audi
Saturday, December 7
Below are the would-be matchups and qualifiers if the postseason started today.
All 9 Western Convention playoff spots are filled. Within the Eastern Convention, seven spots are filled and two are up for grabs.
Eastern Convention (7 of 9 filled)
- Charlotte FC
- Columbus Crew
- FC Cincinnati
- Inter Miami CF
- New York Metropolis FC
- New York Pink Bulls
- Orlando Metropolis SC
Western Convention (9 of 9 filled)
- Colorado Rapids
- Houston Dynamo FC
- LA Galaxy
- LAFC
- Minnesota United FC
- Portland Timbers
- Staunch Salt Lake
- Seattle Sounders FC
- Vancouver Whitecaps FC