MLS fixtures 2026

MLS fixtures are the upcoming matches of Major League Soccer, the top football league in the United States and Canada, or soccer as South African readers say. The list above shows each match with its date, the home and away sides and the kick-off in WAT, EAT, SAST and GMT, and any game that starts after midnight where you are reading from is flagged. The MLS hub carries the wider story of the league.

A kick-off at 00:30 WAT, which is 23:30 GMT, 01:30 SAST and 02:30 EAT, is a typical late start, and many readers in Lagos follow it with a live score and catch the highlights the next morning. This season the league runs from late February to mid October, with the playoffs after that and the MLS Cup final in early December. The calendar changes from 2027, so the fixture list will look different from one year to the next.

How Do You Find Today's MLS Games and the Next Round?

The fixtures module above shows whether there is an MLS game today. Each row gives the date, the home side first, the away side second and the kick-off in four zones, because a match in the American evening lands in the African night. The date itself can change between columns: a game that kicks off before midnight in Accra may already belong to the next day in Nairobi. Read the date beside your own zone, and if the late flag is showing, a morning highlights clip is the kinder plan.

How Do MLS Fixtures Work, and Why Do They Look Different After 2026?

This season MLS has 30 clubs, 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, split into an Eastern and a Western Conference. Each club plays 34 regular season matches on an unbalanced schedule, so a club does not face every other club the same number of times. On 13 November 2025, the league announced a move to a summer to spring calendar from 2027. The old calendar finishes with the MLS Cup final in early December, a short 14 match season follows in early 2027, and the 2027-28 season starts in July 2027, so an unusual fixture list in early 2027 is working as planned.

Where Can You Watch MLS Matches Live in Africa?

Where you can watch MLS live depends on your country, and the broadcaster line on each fixture comes from the data for Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa. Most readers across Africa follow MLS on a phone, usually with a live score while the match is on and the highlights over breakfast. Tap a match for the running score while it is in play, then come back to the results once the final whistle has gone.

The table below shows how one American evening kick-off reads across the continent. Ghana sits on GMT, Nigeria on WAT an hour ahead, South Africa on SAST two hours ahead, and Kenya and Uganda on EAT three hours ahead, so East Africa always gets the latest start. The module converts every fixture for you.

What Do the MLS Table, the Supporters' Shield and MLS Cup Mean?

The MLS table (the log, if you are reading in Johannesburg) ranks clubs within each conference by points, and you can follow it on the MLS table page. The Supporters' Shield goes to the club with the best regular season record, while MLS Cup is decided by the playoffs, which 18 teams enter this season. LA Galaxy hold the all-time record of six MLS Cups, and they share the Supporters' Shield record of four with D.C. United. The Shield rewards a club for being steady from February onwards, whereas the Cup can go to a side that only found its best form in the knockout games.

How Do You Tell Fixtures From Results and Follow Inter Miami?

A fixture is a match still to be played and a result is one that has finished, so the list above only looks forward, while the MLS results page keeps the full time scores and scorers, and the MLS stats page tracks the goals and assists. Inter Miami announced Lionel Messi's signing on 15 July 2023. He won the MLS Most Valuable Player award in 2024 and 2025, the first player to win it in consecutive years. The defining night came on 6 December 2025, when Miami beat Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 in Fort Lauderdale for their first MLS Cup, with Messi named man of the match.

Which African Players Should You Watch in MLS Fixtures?

The name to start with is Mbekezeli Mbokazi, the South African defender born on 19 September 2005 who joined Chicago Fire from Orlando Pirates in December 2025. Kenyan readers still come to MLS through Victor Wanyama, whose move from Tottenham to CF Montréal was announced on 3 March 2020, and who made 117 MLS league appearances before retiring from professional football on 3 April 2026. Readers in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda are best served by reading the kick-off in their own column, since a match at 23:30 in Accra is 00:30 in Lagos and 02:30 in Kampala, and by checking each squad list for Super Eagles, Black Stars or Uganda Cranes players before deciding whether to stay up, because rosters change between windows.