MLS Expansion: City Power Rankings

At least Tampa Bay got a mention this time, even if only for "missing the cut". Watch this space; once Bill Edwards' moves start catching some publicity the Tampa Bay Rowdies will start getting some attention on these lists. No idea when or if this will happen though; so we wait. 

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MLS Expansion: City Power Rankings

Where will MLS go next? Lets rank the candidates.

by Drew Epperley

Oct 10, 2016, 1:51p

It has been a little slower around this site for the last week while FC Dallas was off. We thought we’d do a couple different things to start the week out, beginning with a look at the Major League Soccer expansion field.

MLS is looking to move from 22 teams in 2017 to 28 teams by who knows when really. My gut tells me the league will eventually top out at 30 but until then we know there is a big race to join the upcoming expansion teams in Atlanta, LA, and Minnesota.

So I’ve put together a little Power Rankings on the matter. Here are my top ten cities for expansion as of October 2016. Naturally a lot can and will change with this over time but its always fun to discuss where MLS could and should go next.

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Missing the cut: Austin, Oklahoma City, Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Las Vegas