Major League Soccer kicks off its thirty first season this Saturday on Apple TV, with all 30 groups taking the pitch for MLS is Back weekend.
Against the backdrop of a milestone yr for the game — because the FIFA World Cup involves North America — Apple TV subscribers in additional than 100 international locations and areas can take pleasure in entry to each MLS match with no blackouts. They’ll additionally get in-depth protection and evaluation, unique content material, and matches past the common season — together with the annual Leagues Cup event, Michelob ULTRA Campeones Cup, MLS All-Star Game offered by Chime, and the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs.
“All eyes are on North America this year as the MLS season kicks off this week and the World Cup approaches,” stated Thomas Müller, Vancouver Whitecaps FC attacking midfielder and 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. “After joining Whitecaps FC last August, I’m excited to begin my first full season in MLS, help the team build on what we started, and give fans everywhere the chance to follow our journey on Apple TV. It’s a great opportunity for our club and the league to shine in such an important year for the sport.”
MLS is Back: 2026 Opening Weekend
All 30 golf equipment will take the pitch for MLS is Back weekend — February 21 and 22 — with 13 of the 15 season openers scheduled for Saturday. The day is highlighted by the debut of Walmart Saturday Showdown, that includes a marquee matchup of world soccer icons as Landon Donovan MLS MVP Lionel Messi and the reigning MLS Cup offered by Audi champion Inter Miami CF face off in opposition to Son Heung-Min and LAFC to kick off their seasons. The opening weekend shall be rounded out with the f irst Sunday Night Soccer match of the season, offered by Continental Tire and that includes the LA Galaxy and New York City FC. The full regular-season schedule may be discovered at mlssoccer.com.
Introducing Walmart Saturday Showdown
New for this season, MLS on Apple TV will embrace Walmart Saturday Showdown, which spotlights a featured matchup throughout the Saturday slate of matches all through the common season, establishing one other appointment-viewing expertise for followers. Saturday Showdown will characteristic enhanced manufacturing that helps viewers really feel extra related to the match, together with the addition of exceptional “Shot on iPhone” moments, captured by the world’s hottest digital camera utilizing dynamic angles that carry followers nearer to the motion and provide a real window into the velocity, talent, strain, and emotion of the match. Saturday Showdown will premiere on February 21 as LAFC hosts Inter Miami at 9:30 p.m. ET, reside from the historic LA Memorial Coliseum.
Sunday Night Soccer by Continental Tire Returns
Sunday Night Soccer offered by Continental Tire, the favored flagship recreation of the week on Sunday evenings, returns on February 22 at 7 p.m. ET with a bicoastal showdown between the LA Galaxy and New York City FC. Featuring devoted in-stadium pre- and postgame reveals, enhanced manufacturing, and bespoke graphics in English and Spanish, these primetime video games will air all through the common season and highlight a number of the league’s most compelling matchups.
Follow MLS on the Apple Sports App
Fans can keep updated on scores, stats, standings, and their favourite golf equipment all through the MLS season on the free Apple Sports app for iPhone. Users can simply navigate between scores and upcoming matches; discover play-by-play data, crew stats, lineup particulars, and reside betting odds; and faucet to observe matches on the Apple TV app. Apple Sports additionally seamlessly syncs with favorites chosen throughout the My Sports expertise, together with within the Apple TV app and Apple News.
With iOS 18 and watchOS 11, the Apple Sports app provides Live Activities for all MLS matches, delivering reside scores and play-by-play information at a fast look to a consumer’s iPhone and Apple Watch Lock Screens. Game Card Sharing lets followers share their pleasure across the newest outcomes and upcoming matches.
More Ways to Celebrate MLS
- On Apple Music, followers can take pleasure in unique club- and player-curated playlists, with extra music content material coming all through the season at apple.co/AM-MLS.
- Apple Maps customers can discover devoted Matchday Guides created by MLS golf equipment and metropolis guides created by gamers to seek out suggestions for native bars and eating places to catch a recreation, discover metropolis favorites, discover detailed details about their stadiums, and extra.
- On Apple News, customers can simply comply with MLS and their favourite groups within the Sports tab and entry scores, schedules, standings, and prime tales from lots of of prime publishers.
- On Apple Podcasts, customers can entry an MLS hub with curated podcast episodes and collections masking MLS, its golf equipment and gamers, and soccer in North America.
DIRECTV clients will now have entry to Apple TV’s reside sports activities programming — together with MLS matches, F1 within the U.S., and “Friday Night Baseball” — all accessible instantly inside their houses, on the go, or at any of the 300,000-plus sports activities bars, eating places, inns, and different industrial venues served by DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS. Anyone who subscribes to Apple TV by way of DIRECTV will now be capable to uncover and watch Apple TV’s reside sports activities, together with all MLS matches, instantly inside their DIRECTV expertise.
New for 2026, EverPass will provide industrial institutions entry to stream Apple TV’s full reside sports activities portfolio — together with MLS, Formula 1 within the U.S., and “Friday Night Baseball” — accessible to new and current EverPass clients by way of the EverPass Core package deal.
Apple will once more work with Comcast to supply Xfinity clients an built-in viewing expertise for Apple TV’s reside sports activities. Xfinity clients can have seamless entry to reside “Friday Night Baseball” video games; all MLS matches in English and Spanish; and within the U.S., all F1 follow, qualifying, Sprint periods, and Grands Prix. Apple TV’s protection shall be instantly built-in into the Xfinity X1 and the Xfinity Stream app channel information so it’s straightforward to seek out and watch alongside all their different reside sports activities.
Comcast and Apple are additionally unlocking free entry to MLS 360 – the favored whip-around studio present that gives reside looks-ins from each match – for all Xfinity clients. Customers can discover MLS 360 within the channel information, Xfinity Fan View, and Xfinity Multiview all through the season.
Subscribe to Watch MLS on Apple TV
Apple TV provides premium, compelling drama and comedy collection, characteristic movies, groundbreaking documentaries, reside sports activities, and youngsters and household leisure, and is on the market to observe throughout all of a consumer’s favourite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV grew to become the primary all-original streaming service to launch world wide, and has premiered extra authentic hits and obtained extra award recognitions sooner than another streaming service in its debut. To date, Apple Original movies, documentaries, and collection have been honored with 698 wins and three,258 award nominations and counting, together with multi-Emmy Award-winning, history-making comedies The Studio and Ted Lasso, and Oscar Best Picture winner CODA.
Apple TV is on the market on the Apple TV app in over 100 international locations and areas, on over 1 billion screens, together with iPhone; iPad; Apple TV 4K; Apple Vision Pro; Mac; in style good TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL, and others; Roku and Amazon Fire TV gadgets; Chromecast with Google TV; PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles; and at tv.apple.com , for $12.99 monthly with a seven-day free trial for brand new subscribers. For a restricted time, clients who buy and activate a brand new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Mac can take pleasure in three months of Apple TV without cost.1 For extra data, go to apple.com/tvpr and see the total checklist of supported devices.
A subscription to Apple TV for this season shall be included with every full-season MLS membership ticket account.
FOOTNOTES
1. Special provide is nice for 3 months after the primary activation of the eligible gadget. One provide per Family Sharing group. Plans routinely renew till cancelled. Other restrictions and phrases apply; go to apple.com/promo for extra data.