NEW YORK:
Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami will play host to Actual Salt Lake on February 21 in Main League Soccer’s opening 2024 match below a regular-season schedule introduced by the league Wednesday.
The North American league’s 29th season will characteristic the earliest kickoff to any MLS marketing campaign as eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi, who led Argentina to the 2022 World Cup title, begins his first full season with the Florida squad.
Messi’s first scheduled street match of the 2024 marketing campaign comes solely 4 days after the opener when Inter Miami will go to the Western Convention Los Angeles Galaxy on February 25.
Every MLS staff will play 34 matches, 17 every at residence and on the street, with Messi’s Inter Miami appearances in any respect MLS venues anticipated to attract big crowds and excessive ticket resale costs.
Miami will go to all 14 Jap Convention MLS rivals through the season, the primary of these matches approaching March 16 when Inter visits DC United in Washington.
Messi’s Miami can be scheduled to go to all three Canadian MLS cities, hitting Montreal on Could 11, Western Convention foe Vancouver on Could 25 and Toronto on October 5 in Inter Miami’s ultimate MLS street match of the season.
Inter Miami’s season finale is ready for October 19 at residence in opposition to New England on the final day of the MLS common season.
The 2024 MLS Cup Last might be performed on December 7.
Miami’s different Western Convention go to might be at Sporting Kansas Metropolis on April 13.
Messi led Inter Miami to the crown on this 12 months’s inaugural Leagues Cup, a World Cup-style occasion that includes MLS and Mexican League golf equipment which might be performed once more from July 26 to August 25, 2024.
The MLS All-Star Recreation might be performed on July 24 at Columbus, Ohio, residence of the reigning MLS champion Columbus Crew.
The Crew will go to Los Angeles FC for the primary time since 2018 in a rematch of this month’s MLS Cup Last on July 13.
LAFC will face the Galaxy on July 4, the US Independence Day, on the Rose Bowl, the place the “El Trafico” rivalry drew an MLS-record crowd of 82,110 final season.
MLS Rivalry Week might be Could 11-18 with Cincinnati at Columbus on Could 11 and Inter Miami at Orlando Metropolis on Could 15.