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Season	2015
MLS Cup	Portland Timbers (1st title)
Supporters' Shield	New York Red Bulls (2nd shield)
Champions League (United States)	FC Dallas New York Red Bulls Portland Timbers Sporting Kansas City
Champions League (Canada)	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Matches played	340
Goals scored	937 (2.76 per match)
Top goalscorer	Sebastian Giovinco Kei Kamara (22 goals each)
Best goalkeeper	Adam Kwarasey David Ousted (13 shutouts each)
Biggest home win	5 goals: LA 5–0 POR (Jun 24) TOR 5–0 ORL (Aug 22) CLB 5–0 DC (Oct 25)
Biggest away win	5 goals: SKC 0–5 SJ (Aug 19)
Highest scoring	10 goals: DC 6–4 RSL (Aug 1)
Longest winning run	6 games: New England Revolution (Aug 1 – Sep 16)
Longest unbeaten run	9 games: New England Revolution (Mar 21 – May 16) Portland Timbers (Oct 14 – Dec 6)
Longest winless run	11 games: New York City (Mar 21 – May 30)
Longest losing run	5 games: New England Revolution (Jun 21 – Jul 11) Seattle Sounders FC (Jul 11 – Aug 9) Chicago Fire (Sep 5 – Sep 26)
Highest attendance	64,358 SEA 2–1 POR (Aug 30)
Lowest attendance	10,035 MTL 2–1 VAN (Jun 3)
Total attendance	7,335,053
Average attendance	21,574
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The 2015 Major League Soccer season featured 20 total clubs (17 based in the United States, 3 based in Canada). The regular season was held from March 6 through to October 25, whereas the MLS Cup Playoffs began on October 28 and ended with MLS Cup 2015 on December 6. The defending MLS Cup champions were the LA Galaxy, while Seattle Sounders FC were the defending Supporters' Shield winners.

It was the first season for expansion teams Orlando City SC and New York City, who both joined the Eastern Conference, while both the Houston Dynamo and Sporting Kansas City moved from the Eastern Conference to the Western Conference. Chivas USA folded at the end of the 2014 season.

At the end of the regular season, the New York Red Bulls of the Eastern Conference won the Supporters' Shield, while the team on top of the Western Conference was FC Dallas. The Portland Timbers won their first MLS Cup, winning 2–1 at Columbus Crew.

Overview

The 2015 season began on Friday, March 6. The opening weekend saw an average attendance of 25,838 — buoyed by strong attendances in Orlando (62,510), and Seattle (39,782) — with seven of the weekend's ten matches selling out. Additionally, MLS saw strong TV ratings on ESPN2 (539,000 viewers), Unimas (341,000 viewers), and Fox Sports 1 (289,000 and 278,500 viewers).

Franchise changes

The 2015 MLS season featured the addition of two expansion teams, New York City and Orlando City SC. New York City became the second MLS team in the New York metropolitan area (joining the New Jersey-based New York Red Bulls), as well as the first based within New York City itself, as the team played its inaugural season at Yankee Stadium). Orlando was a new market for MLS, which returned to Florida for the first time since folding their Miami and Tampa Bay franchises before the 2002 season. The Lions' ownership previously owned Orlando's team that played in the league then known as USL Pro from 2010 to 2014; that team that relocated to Louisville for the 2015 season of the rebranded United Soccer League.

While MLS added two teams, one team closed down. Chivas USA, which had called the Los Angeles area home since 2005 and shared the StubHub Center with the LA Galaxy. Chivas had been owned by Mexican club, C.D. Guadalajara, who sold the club back to MLS in 2014. The league folded Chivas in October 2014, after the conclusion of the regular season, though it announced plans to add a second LA-area club, Los Angeles FC, in 2018.

Realignment and playoffs

With the addition and subtraction of the above-mentioned teams, the 2015 season saw a realignment of MLS's Eastern and Western conferences: New York City and Orlando City SC joined the East, while Houston Dynamo and Sporting Kansas City moved from the East to the West.

Each team played 34 regular season matches: two or three against conference rivals and once against teams from the opposite conference. The regular season concluded with all teams playing at the same scheduled time, a league first.

12 teams advanced to the MLS Cup Playoffs, up from 10 the previous 3 seasons. The top six teams per conference qualified. The first round per conference had the third-seed hosting the sixth-seed, and the fourth hosting the fifth. In the Conference Semifinals, the top seed played the lowest remaining seed and the second played the next-lowest.

Television

The 2015 season saw the launch of a new United States television and media rights deal with English-language ESPN and Fox Sports and Spanish-language Univision Deportes. The deal continues MLS's relationship with ESPN and Univision, while it reestablishes one with Fox Sports, whose Fox Soccer channel carried MLS games until 2011 (NBC Sports carried MLS broadcasts from 2012 to 2014). The deal, formally announced in May 2014, sees regular weekly game broadcasts on ESPN2 (Sunday afternoons) and Fox Sports 1 (Sunday evenings), as well as a regular Friday night match on UniMás and/or Univision Deportes Network. The networks will share coverage of the MLS Cup Playoffs, while ESPN and Fox will alternate English language carriage of the MLS All-Star Game and MLS Cup championship match each year. The 2015 MLS all star game will be on Fox Sports, and MLS Cup 2015 will air on ESPN. As part of the deal, the networks also share coverage of the U.S. Soccer men's and women's national teams.

The league reached a four-year agreement with Sky Sports to televise league matches live in the United Kingdom and Ireland. At least two regular season matches each week, the MLS All-Star Game, and every MLS Cup Playoff match was aired on the Sky family of networks. MLS also reached a four-year agreement with Eurosport to air live matches in many other European countries.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Chicago Fire	Colorado Rapids	Columbus Crew	D.C. United	FC Dallas	Houston Dynamo
Toyota Park	Dick's Sporting Goods Park	Mapfre Stadium	RFK Memorial Stadium	Toyota Stadium	BBVA Compass Stadium
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 20,145	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 20,500	Capacity: 22,000
LA Galaxy	Montreal Impact	FireRapidsCrewD.C. UnitedFC DallasDynamoGalaxyImpactRevolutionNew York CityRed BullsOrlando City SCUnionTimbersReal Salt LakeEarthquakesSoundersSporting KCTorontoWhitecapsclass=notpageimage| Locations of teams for the 2015 Major League Soccer season Eastern Conference; Western Conference		New England Revolution	New York City
StubHub Center	Saputo Stadium			Gillette Stadium	Yankee Stadium
Capacity: 27,000	Capacity: 20,801			Capacity: 22,385	Capacity: 33,444
New York Red Bulls	Orlando			Philadelphia Union	Portland Timbers
Red Bull Arena	Citrus Bowl			PPL Park	Providence Park
Capacity: 25,000	Capacity: 23,000			Capacity: 18,500	Capacity: 22,000
Real Salt Lake	San Jose Earthquakes	Seattle Sounders FC	Sporting Kansas City	Toronto FC	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Rio Tinto Stadium	Avaya Stadium	CenturyLink Field	Sporting Park	BMO Field	BC Place
Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 18,000	Capacity: 39,115	Capacity: 18,500	Capacity: 30,991	Capacity: 21,000

Personnel and sponsorship

Note: All teams use Adidas as kit manufacturer.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Shirt sponsor
Chicago Fire	Veljko Paunović	Jeff Larentowicz	Quaker
Colorado Rapids	Pablo Mastroeni	Drew Moor	Transamerica
Columbus Crew	Gregg Berhalter	Michael Parkhurst	Barbasol
D.C. United	Ben Olsen	Bobby Boswell	Leidos
FC Dallas	Óscar Pareja	Matt Hedges	AdvoCare
Houston Dynamo	Owen Coyle	Brad Davis	BHP Billiton
LA Galaxy	Bruce Arena	Robbie Keane	Herbalife
Montreal Impact	Mauro Biello	Patrice Bernier	Bank of Montreal
New England Revolution	Jay Heaps	Jermaine Jones	UnitedHealthcare
New York City	Jason Kreis	David Villa	Etihad Airways
New York Red Bulls	Jesse Marsch	Dax McCarty	Red Bull
Orlando City SC	Adrian Heath	Kaká	Orlando Health
Philadelphia Union	Jim Curtin	Maurice Edu	Bimbo
Portland Timbers	Caleb Porter	Will Johnson	Alaska Airlines
Real Salt Lake	Jeff Cassar	Kyle Beckerman	LifeVantage
San Jose Earthquakes	Dominic Kinnear	Chris Wondolowski	—
Seattle Sounders FC	Sigi Schmid	Brad Evans	Xbox
Sporting Kansas City	Peter Vermes	Matt Besler	Ivy Funds
Toronto	Greg Vanney	Michael Bradley	Bank of Montreal
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Carl Robinson	Pedro Morales	Bell Canada

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
San Jose Earthquakes	Mark Watson	Fired	October 16, 2014	Preseason	Dominic Kinnear	October 16, 2014
Houston Dynamo	Dominic Kinnear	Signed by San Jose Earthquakes	October 16, 2014		Owen Coyle	December 8, 2014
New York Red Bulls	Mike Petke	Fired	January 7, 2015		Jesse Marsch	January 7, 2015
Montreal Impact	Frank Klopas	Fired	August 29, 2015	7th in East, 17th overall	Mauro Biello (Interim)	August 29, 2015
Chicago Fire	Frank Yallop	Fired	September 20, 2015	10th in East, 20th overall	Brian Bliss (Interim)	September 20, 2015
New York City	Jason Kreis	Fired	November 2, 2015	Postseason	Patrick Vieira	November 9, 2015
Chicago Fire	Brian Bliss	End of interim period	November 24, 2015		Veljko Paunovic	November 24, 2015

Standings

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Overall standings

MLS Cup Playoffs

Source:

Attendance

Average home attendances

Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.

Highest attendances

Regular season

Updated to games played on October 25, 2015. Source: MLS Soccer

Player statistics

Goals

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	22
	Kei Kamara	Columbus Crew
3	Robbie Keane	LA Galaxy	20
4	David Villa	New York City FC	18
5	Cyle Larin	Orlando City SC	17
	Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls
7	Chris Wondolowski	San Jose Earthquakes	16
	Fanendo Adi	Portland Timbers
9	Obafemi Martins	Seattle Sounders FC	15
10	Jozy Altidore	Toronto FC	13

Hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Robbie Keane	LA Galaxy	Toronto FC	4–0	July 4
Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	New York City FC	4–4	July 12
Robbie Keane	LA Galaxy	San Jose Earthquakes	5–2	July 17
Cyle Larin	Orlando City SC	New York City FC	3–5	July 26
Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	Orlando City SC	4–1	August 5
Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact	Chicago Fire	4–3	September 5
Cyle Larin	Orlando City SC	New York Red Bulls	5–2	September 25

Assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	16
2	Benny Feilhaber	Sporting Kansas City	15
	Cristian Maidana	Philadelphia Union
4	Sacha Kljestan	New York Red Bulls	14
5	Ethan Finlay	Columbus Crew	13
6	Javier Morales	Real Salt Lake	11
7	Brad Davis	Houston Dynamo	10
	Mauro Díaz	FC Dallas
	Lee Nguyen	New England Revolution
	Clint Dempsey	Seattle Sounders FC

Clean Sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean Sheets
1	Adam Kwarasey	Portland Timbers	13
	David Ousted	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
3	David Bingham	San Jose Earthquakes	12
4	Stefan Frei	Seattle Sounders FC	10
5	Evan Bush	Montreal Impact	9
	Luis Robles	New York Red Bulls
7	Bill Hamid	D.C. United	8
	Clint Irwin	Colorado Rapids
	Tim Melia	Sporting Kansas City
	Nick Rimando	Real Salt Lake
	Bobby Shuttleworth	New England Revolution

Awards

Individual awards

Award	Player	Club
Most Valuable Player	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC
Defender of the Year	Laurent Ciman	New England Revolution
Goalkeeper of the Year	Luis Robles	New York Red Bulls
Coach of the Year	Jesse Marsch	New York Red Bulls
Rookie of the Year	Cyle Larin	Orlando City SC
Newcomer of the Year	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC
Comeback Player of the Year	Tim Melia	Sporting Kansas City
Golden Boot	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC
Fair Play Award	Darlington Nagbe	Portland Timbers
Humanitarian of the Year	Kei Kamara	Columbus Crew
Goal of the Year	Krisztián Németh	Sporting Kansas City
Save of the Year	Adam Kwarasey	Portland Timbers

Player of the Month

Month	Player	Club	Stats
March	Octavio Rivero	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	3G
April	Benny Feilhaber	Sporting Kansas City	2G, 3A
May	Krisztián Németh	Sporting Kansas City	3G, 2A
June	David Ousted	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	30SV, 4GA
July	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	5G, 3A
August	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	4G, 3A
September	Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact	7G, 1A
October	Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact	4G

Weekly awards

Week	MLS Player of the Week		Goal of the Week		MLS Save of the Week
	Player	Club	Player	Club	Player	Club
Week 1	Jozy Altidore	Toronto	Clint Dempsey	Seattle Sounders FC	Nick Rimando	Real Salt Lake
Week 2	David Villa	New York City	Innocent Emeghara	San Jose Earthquakes	Tyler Deric	Houston Dynamo
Week 3	Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	Octavio Rivero	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Tyler Deric	Houston Dynamo
Week 4	Kelyn Rowe	New England Revolution	Jack McInerney	Montreal Impact	Tyler Deric	Houston Dynamo
Week 5	Shaun Maloney	Chicago Fire	Javier Morales	Real Salt Lake	Brek Shea	Orlando City SC
Week 6	Jaime Penedo	LA Galaxy	Dillon Serna	Colorado Rapids	Nick Rimando	Real Salt Lake
Week 7	Fabián Castillo	FC Dallas	Obafemi Martins	Seattle Sounders FC	Adam Kwarasey	Portland Timbers
Week 8	Ethan Finlay	Columbus Crew	Benny Feilhaber	Sporting Kansas City	Jeff Attinella	Real Salt Lake
Week 9	Fabián Castillo	FC Dallas	Obafemi Martins	Seattle Sounders FC	Stefan Frei	Seattle Sounders FC
Week 10	Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	Diego Valeri	Portland Timbers	David Ousted	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Week 11	Chad Barrett	Seattle Sounders FC	Devon Sandoval	Real Salt Lake	Steve Clark	Columbus Crew
Week 12	Kei Kamara	Columbus Crew	Dom Dwyer	Sporting Kansas City	Evan Bush	Montreal Impact
Week 13	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto	Marco Pappa	Seattle Sounders FC	Stefan Frei	Seattle Sounders FC
Week 14	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto	Thomas McNamara	New York City	Andrew Dykstra	D.C. United
Week 15	David Villa	New York City	Diego Fagúndez	New England Revolution	Stefan Frei	Seattle Sounders FC
Week 16	Gyasi Zardes	LA Galaxy	Matías Pérez García	San Jose Earthquakes	David Ousted	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Week 17	Fanendo Adi	Portland Timbers	Olmes Garcia	Real Salt Lake	David Ousted	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Week 18	Robbie Keane	LA Galaxy	Tyrone Mears	Seattle Sounders FC	David Ousted	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Week 19	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto	Marco Donadel	Montreal Impact	Evan Bush	Montreal Impact
Week 20	Robbie Keane	LA Galaxy	Javier Morales	Real Salt Lake	Tyler Deric	Houston Dynamo
Week 21	Cyle Larin	Orlando City SC	Benny Feilhaber	Sporting Kansas City	Jeff Attinella	Real Salt Lake
Week 22	Pa Modou Kah	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Taylor Kemp	D.C. United	Jeff Attinella	Real Salt Lake
Week 23	Kei Kamara	Columbus Crew	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto	Luis Robles	New York Red Bulls
Week 24	Paulo Nagamura	Sporting Kansas City	Obafemi Martins	Seattle Sounders FC	Adam Kwarasey	Portland Timbers
Week 25	Robbie Keane	LA Galaxy	Cristian Techera	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Stefan Frei	Seattle Sounders FC
Week 26	Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	Stefan Frei	Seattle Sounders FC
Week 27	Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact	Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact	Stefan Frei	Seattle Sounders FC
Week 28	Kei Kamara	Columbus Crew	Krisztián Németh	Sporting Kansas City	Nick Rimando	Real Salt Lake
Week 29	Benny Feilhaber	Sporting Kansas City	Gonzalo Pineda	Seattle Sounders FC	Luis Robles	New York Red Bulls
Week 30	Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact	Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact	Nick Rimando	Real Salt Lake
Week 31	Tim Melia	Sporting Kansas City	Krisztián Németh	Sporting Kansas City	Luis Robles	New York Red Bulls
Week 32	None awarded
Week 33	Fanendo Adi	Portland Timbers	Ignacio Piatti	Montreal Impact	Luis Robles	New York Red Bulls
Week 34	Darlington Nagbe	Portland Timbers	Darlington Nagbe	Portland Timbers	Evan Bush	Montreal Impact

Best XI

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Luis Robles, Red Bulls	Laurent Ciman, Montreal Matt Hedges, Dallas Kendall Waston, Vancouver	Ethan Finlay, Columbus Dax McCarty, Red Bulls Benny Feilhaber, Sporting KC Fabian Castillo, Dallas	Sebastian Giovinco, Toronto Kei Kamara, Columbus Robbie Keane, LA Galaxy

Player transfers

Allocation ranking

The allocation ranking was the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a U.S. National Team player who signs with MLS after playing abroad, or a former MLS player who returns to the league after having gone to a club abroad for a transfer fee.

MLS streamlined the allocation mechanism in the middle of 2015 season. Effective on May 1, 2015, the allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a player who is in MLS allocation list. MLS allocation list contains select U.S. National Team players and players transferred outside of MLS garnering a transfer fee of at least $500,000. The allocations will be ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2014 season, taking playoff performance into account.

Once the club uses its allocation ranking to acquire a player, it drops to the bottom of the list. A ranking can be traded provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club's ranking. At all times each club is assigned one ranking. The rankings reset at the end of each MLS season.

Original Ranking	Final Ranking	Club	Date Allocation Used (Rank on that date)	Player Signed	Previous Club	Ref
20	1	LA Galaxy†
6	2	Chicago Fire
7	3	Houston Dynamo
9	4	Philadelphia Union
10	5	Portland Timbers
11	6	Sporting Kansas City
12	7	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
13	8	Columbus Crew
14	9	FC Dallas
15	10	Real Salt Lake
3	11	Montreal Impact‡
18	12	Seattle Sounders FC
19	13	New England Revolution
5	14	Colorado Rapids†
1	15	New York City	January 13, 2015 (1)	Mix Diskerud	Rosenborg
8	16	Toronto	January 16, 2015 (6)	Jozy Altidore	Sunderland
17	17	New York Red Bulls‡	January 28, 2015 (1)	Sacha Kljestan	Anderlecht
2	18	Orlando City SC♯	December 19, 2014 (2)	Brek Shea	Stoke City
			February 2, 2015 (17)	Eric Avila	Santos Laguna
16	19	D.C. United	February 10, 2015 (12)	Michael Farfan	Cruz Azul
4	20	San Jose Earthquakes	July 17, 2015 (1)	Marc Pelosi	Liverpool U-21

Coaches

Eastern Conference

• Chicago Fire: Frank Yallop
• Columbus Crew: Gregg Berhalter
• D.C. United: Ben Olsen
• Montreal Impact: Mauro Biello
• New England Revolution: Jay Heaps
• New York City: Patrick Vieira
• New York Red Bulls: Jesse Marsch
• Orlando City SC: Jason Kreis
• Philadelphia Union: Jim Curtin
• Toronto: Greg Vanney

Western Conference

• Colorado Rapids: Pablo Mastroeni
• FC Dallas: Óscar Pareja
• Houston Dynamo: Owen Coyle
• Los Angeles Galaxy: Bruce Arena
• Portland Timbers: Caleb Porter
• Real Salt Lake: Jeff Cassar
• San Jose Earthquakes: Dominic Kinnear
• Seattle Sounders FC: Sigi Schmid and Brian Schmetzer
• Sporting Kansas City: Peter Vermes
• Vancouver Whitecaps FC: Carl Robinson

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External links

• Media related to 2015 in Major League Soccer at Wikimedia Commons

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