The unbalanced schedule means United is not going to face MLS Cup champion Los Angeles FC, the Concacaf Champions League-winning Seattle Sounders or a Houston Dynamo staff led by former United coach Ben Olsen.
D.C. will open the season with 13 straight matches towards Japanese opponents earlier than internet hosting Javier “Chicharito” Hernández and the LA Galaxy on Might 20. Together with the opening match towards Toronto — a gathering of the 2 worst groups in MLS final season — United will play 5 of its first seven video games towards golf equipment that missed the playoffs in 2022 as Coach Wayne Rooney kicks off his first full season in cost.
United additionally may have an enviable alternative to select up factors down the stretch, because it performs 5 of six matches at Audi Discipline from Aug. 26 to Sept. 23 and concludes its common season at house towards New York Metropolis FC on Oct. 7. In a scheduling quirk brought on by the league’s odd variety of groups, United would be the lone membership not taking part in Oct. 21, when the common season involves an in depth.
All of United’s matches can be performed at 7:30 p.m. Japanese time or later, with 28 video games on Saturdays, 4 on Wednesdays, one on a Tuesday (a July 4 journey to face FC Dallas) and one on a Sunday (an Aug. 20 go to to the rival New York Purple Bulls).
The league will launch its 10-year partnership with Apple this season, and each match can be streamed by way of the subscription service MLS Season Cross. The Fox household of networks may even air 34 matches.
As beforehand introduced, United will host the MLS All-Star Recreation on July 19 at Audi Discipline, the midseason spectacle’s return to D.C. for the primary time because it was held at RFK Stadium in 2004. MLS has not confirmed the format for the match, which has featured the MLS All-Stars dealing with a squad composed of gamers from Mexico’s Liga MX the previous two years.
The MLS marketing campaign will then go on hiatus till Aug. 20 for the Leagues Cup, the third version of a event with golf equipment from MLS and Liga MX. After the primary two variations of the competitors — held in 2019 and 2021 — featured simply eight groups, the revamped 2023 iteration will embody all 47 golf equipment from the 2 leagues in a World Cup-style event. United will play from two to seven matches.
After ending final in MLS with a 7-21-6 document and firing normal supervisor Lucy Rushton, United has bolstered its roster this offseason with the acquisitions of goalkeepers Tyler Miller and Alex Bono and defenders Derrick Williams, Mohanad Jeahze and Pedro Santos.
United’s schedule (all occasions Japanese):
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