Is MLS in winter impossible for Vancouver Whitecaps, CF Montreal & Toronto FC? 🥶

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[@duanethebathtub951]

If the MLS thinks they can compete for viewership for the majority of their season with NFL, NBA, NHL, and the big euro leagues (especially the Premier League), they need to get a leadership. MLS gets a lot of their viewership because for the majority of the season (in warmer temps) they only compete against baseball, and in quite a few of the cities, there is no baseball team.

[@calc1657]

The last Norwegian Eliteserien regular season ran from Mar 31 to Dec 1. MLS could take a winter break starting in early December then restarting in mid February. Northern teams could go on long road trips until mid March. That being said, I prefer the current schedule.

[@Chicagofellow15]

thats barely a change to the current schedule. Which starts in February and the Playoffs end in December.

[@calc1657]

@@Chicagofellow15 Exactly. The idea that the Canadian teams couldn't survive the change is absurd. These are just folks pushing the CPL

[@mrmr5580]

The weather would be an issue for Canadian and Northern US teams with an Aug-May schedule they'll probably need long road trips in the winter, once the calender hits March then that'll be where the long stretch of home games is....the cold in the Champions Cup vs Mexican sides can be a massive advantage for the Canadian teams, I remember Arsenal playing Spartak Moscow in Moscow in December years ago, it was apparently stupidly cold, the Arsenal players on TV were visibly feeling it, Spartak looked fine, Spartak won 4-1, Canadian teams would have a similar advantage

[@lucforand8527]

A winter schedule will kill the Canadian teams in MLS and there will never be any others that could ever join it!! Soccer in Canada has to operate the way it does in countries like Sweden, Finland and Russia. The problem of course, will be that such a Canadian league will be a development league where players will leave to make their big bucks in other leagues (UK, Germany, Italy, Spain); but that's what they do even now.

[@jimsanderson4180]

Vancouver City Council really screwed over the Whitecaps when they blocked the stadium. Right now we have the lowest revenue in MLS and that is because of the lack of a stadium.

[@artkapana]

MLS is such a joke as a league, 30 teams?! it's a joke, Canada needs to leave MLS and focus on their own Premier league and growth it like any other country the play proper futbol.

[@oyaml1211]

Agree! Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto should leave MLS and join CPL.

[@duncaninglis2081]

​@@oyaml1211who will own them, would need 3 new owners. Saputo and MLSE would not be interested in back tracking, and clubs would need new names too 😮

[@kidbrown2010]

You guys don't know what you are talking about. Jordan Hamilton who couldn't cut it at TFC as as a back up, is one of the CPL's top players in their top team. The CPL could never in a million years generate enough revenue to compete with MLS or be anywhere near its size. A team the quality of TFC's title winning squad could never be assemble in the CPL. The CPL is a nice little league for smaller towns to have football in this country.. a Metropolitan like Toronto warrants a team that can compete for Concacaf. That's never gonna happen in the CPL. It's a death wish to want us to regress to that level.

[@DanDaMan_966]

​@duncaninglis2081, not necessarily unless canada soccer or csb concacaf and fifa get involved there could be a possibility of getting their name rights another situation would be if csb mark noonan canada soccer and mls and don garber make a deal two scenarios

[@et-m99]

Uh, Argentina had 28-31 teams in Primera Division. It happens. Each league may have their own system. CPL will be fine.

[@uriustosh]

MLS doesnt need to focus its planning and growth on 1/10 clubs. They need to focus on the 9/10. Minnesota would be little different than the Canadian team, Chicago as well. The winter break will have to be longer than in most of Europe, but if Russia can use the bi-yearly schedule then so can Canada and USA. It's asinine to argue against it.

[@richardtaylor7991]

Do they realize Vancouver is warmer the Chicago and most of the Midwest USA in the winter?

[@lucforand8527]

The last time the Canadian dollar went low we lost several NHL hockey teams and a basketball team. Its hard for Canadian teams to compete with the lower dollar and less tax advantages. Are cross border leagues still possible!!

[@wade2bosh]

Bring all 3 into canpl

[@riobabic8960]

The Canadian league had more viewers in Canada for the final than the mls final. MLS has crappy tv coverage. MLS has been disappointing the past 2 years. Canadian league teams have done well against mls teams.

[@JamesBond009]

I've been to TFC games and still respect the MLS, but I've pretty much given up on following the league and have put my support behind the CPL and Forge FC.

[@oyaml1211]

MLS teams have done well against Liga MX, have even won CCC and beaten their top clubs. That doesn't mean MLS is better or even equal to LigaMX just like CPL isn't to MLS 😂

[@riobabic8960]

@@JamesBond009 Forge s payroll is way less than TFC and are pretty equal to them on the field !

[@josephp9141]

Doing well against tfc doesn’t mean anything

[@riobabic8960]

@ good point ! It only means they spent $1 to TFC paying$100 in payroll

[@MrJacobd16]

montreal got olympic stadium they are fine

[@jethro1963]

Olympic Stadium won't be available until 2028 and it would have artificial turf.

[@et-m99]

Winter season would be awesome but having the NFL and NHL in the way, play from Sept to Nov, go on a winter break from Dec to Feb after Super Bowl weekend & play the MLS Cup in May. Cut the games to 30. Play your conference once (14 games), opposite conference (15 games) and an rivalry week. 12 team playoffs. Maybe even do a neutral site final just promote it the right way.

[@JamesBond009]

A winter break from Dec 15th to Feb 15th.

[@duncaninglis2081]

​@@JamesBond009 30 games can't bring enough revenue and how do you incorporate US Open, Leagues, Concacaf Cups and Cdn Champs?

[@jethro1963]

I read about people in Toronto complaining about games in October, no one would go to the games.

[@JamesBond009]

@duncaninglis2081 Start the MLS season first week of September and end the season last week of June. Less star players will be missing MLS games when the World Cup comes around.

[@bvyup2112]

global warming strikes again

[@mkr8019]

The MLS has really gotten worse over the years. It was fun to follow in the era after vancouver and montreal joined the league, but it's just a caricature of soccer league at this point. Overexpansion and Apple TV are just the icing on the cake at this point. I have not payed much attention the last 3 years and i care even less today. I think the CPL is more appealing today.

[@samuelrigaud88]

Messi won't visit a CPL Team

[@mkr8019]

@@samuelrigaud88 who cares about Messi. The league is ruining itself regardless of who plays there. Also Big name players don't automatically makes leagues good. Look at Saudi. That league is freaking terrible.

[@samuelrigaud88]

@@mkr8019 "who cares about Messi" ✋🏾no reply needed