About MLS: Setting the Table

This photo symbolizes the sometimes rough and physical nature of Major League Soccer. The cat was not carded for this flagrant foul.

Major League Soccer has American-style conferences instead of the traditional single-table format found in most other first division leagues around the world.  A Supporters’ Shield is awarded to the club with the best overall point total, and MLS does have qualification for certain competitions based on where they are positioned in a single-table style format.

Back in 2007, many discussions about the Supporters’ Shield on BigSoccer led me to look around for an overall MLS table to see where teams stood in the standings.  I couldn’t find one that was regularly updated.  The official MLS website only had conference standings.  So I created a simple, ugly looking table that I updated each week.  Going on five years later, and it has grown into this fan site.

This site gives a glimpse of what it would look like if MLS were single table, and gives you a bigger picture of the league that conference standings don’t always do.

The tables and numbers on this site are unofficial, and not affiliated in any way with Major League Soccer or its partners.