Major League Soccer Playoffs: Two More Teams Added For Next Year

We were promised news at halftime. What we got were more questions.

It had already been learned that MLS plans to include two additional teams in next year’s playoffs. At halftime it was learned that the mechanism for making that is still not decided.

Next year’s MLS playoffs will include two additional teams and there will be conferences, that much we know for certain. What is less clear, but should be clarified at halftime of the MLS Cup, is how many teams from each conference will make the playoffs.

MLS Commissioner Don Garber has spoken repeatedly at his frustration over two teams from the Western Conference playing for the Eastern Conference championship and has not hidden his desire to make sure that doesn’t happen again.