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Teams played every 5.8 days during the regular season, but the Galaxy are off for 13 days and LAFC for 16 days during FIFA’s international break.
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Soccer on TV this weekend: In CONCACAF, teams will busy themselves with the Nations League tournament while in Europe qualifying for the European Championships resumes.
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The U.S. and Mexico play in the group phase of the first Nations League soccer tournament Friday, which immediately begs a question: what is the Nations League soccer tournament?
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Welcome to a very stat-heavy edition of the L.A. Times soccer newsletter.
LAFC star Carlos Vela scores three times to finish the regular season with an MLS-record 34 goals in a 3-1 victory over Colorado.
Colorado’s game Sunday at LAFC likely will be the last for Tim Howard, and the 40-year-old will head into retirement as the greatest goalkeeper in U.S. history.
LAFC is set for the playoffs but will be chasing team and individual records in its finale, while the Galaxy can improve their fate dramatically with a win.
A look at the top soccer matches on television this weekend. Leicester looks to end Liverpool’s undefeated start in the Premier League.
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LAFC’s Walker Zimmerman and Galaxy’s Sebastian Lletget were among those named to the U.S. men’s national team roster for the Nations League tournament.
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Eleven of the 12 matches that will be played on Sunday – which MLS has aptly dubbed “Decisions Day” – will have a direct impact on the playoff schedule.
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Carlos Vela scores his 31st goal of the season, but LAFC gives up a goal in the 75th minute in a 1-1 tie with Minnesota United FC.
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Vancouver’s Michaell Chirinos scored in stoppage time to send the Whitecaps to a 4-3 victory over the Galaxy on Sunday in L.A.'s final home game before the playoffs.
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The Galaxy looks to secure home games for early rounds of MLS playoffs and beyond depending on what league-leader LAFC accomplishes.
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LAFC’s victory over the Houston Dynamo ensures it will finish the regular season with the best record in MLS.
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A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was felt widely in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday evening at 10:33 p.m., with an epicenter in the Walnut Creek and Pleasant Hill area.
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The Times found a rising number of death investigations across the country were complicated or upended after transplantable body parts were taken before a coroner’s autopsy.
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The police officers were killed early Monday in western Mexico, the latest in a series of high-casualty attacks by criminal groups across the country.
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A new California law requires middle and high schools in urban areas to delay start times to allow students to get more sleep.
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After abandoning the Los Angeles market for more than two decades, the NFL isn’t taking the right approach when it comes Rams and Chargers fans.
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