February 19, 2026
UPDATE
Main League Soccer kicks off 2026 season on Apple TV
Main League Soccer kicks off its thirty first season this Saturday on Apple TV, with all 30 groups taking the pitch for MLS is Again weekend.
In opposition to the backdrop of a milestone 12 months for the game — because the FIFA World Cup involves North America — Apple TV subscribers in additional than 100 nations and areas can get pleasure from entry to each MLS match with no blackouts. They’ll additionally get in-depth protection and evaluation, unique content material, and matches past the common season — together with the annual Leagues Cup match, Michelob ULTRA Campeones Cup, MLS All-Star Sport, and the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs.
“All eyes are on North America this 12 months because the MLS season kicks off this week and the World Cup approaches,” stated Thomas Müller, Vancouver Whitecaps FC attacking midfielder and 2014 FIFA World Cup champion. “After becoming a member of Whitecaps FC final August, I’m excited to start my first full season in MLS, assist the group construct on what we began, and provides followers all over the place the prospect to observe our journey on Apple TV. It’s an ideal alternative for our membership and the league to shine in such an vital 12 months for the game.”
MLS is Again: 2026 Opening Weekend
All 30 golf equipment will take the pitch for MLS is Again weekend — February 21 and 22 — with 13 of the 15 season openers scheduled for Saturday. The day is highlighted by the debut of Walmart Saturday Showdown, that includes a marquee matchup of worldwide soccer icons as MLS MVP Lionel Messi and the reigning MLS Cup champion Inter Miami CF face off in opposition to Son Heung-Min and LAFC to kick off their seasons. The opening weekend will likely be rounded out with the primary Sunday Night time Soccer match of the season, offered by Continental Tire and that includes the LA Galaxy and New York Metropolis FC. The entire regular-season schedule might be discovered at mlssoccer.com.
Introducing Walmart Saturday Showdown
New for this season, MLS on Apple TV will embody Walmart Saturday Showdown, which spotlights a featured matchup inside the Saturday slate of matches all through the common season, establishing one other appointment-viewing expertise for followers. Saturday Showdown will characteristic enhanced manufacturing that helps viewers really feel extra related to the match, together with the addition of outstanding “Shot on iPhone” moments, captured by the world’s hottest digital camera utilizing dynamic angles that deliver followers nearer to the motion and supply a real window into the velocity, talent, stress, and emotion of the match. Saturday Showdown will premiere on February 21 as LAFC hosts Inter Miami at 9:30 p.m. ET, dwell from the historic LA Memorial Coliseum.
Sunday Night time Soccer Returns
Sunday Night time Soccer offered by Continental Tire, the favored flagship sport of the week on Sunday evenings, returns on February 22 at 7 p.m. ET with a bicoastal showdown between the LA Galaxy and New York Metropolis FC. That includes devoted in-stadium pre- and postgame reveals, enhanced manufacturing, and bespoke graphics in English and Spanish, these primetime video games will air all through the common season and highlight a number of the league’s most compelling matchups.
Comply with MLS on the Apple Sports activities App
Followers can keep updated on scores, stats, standings, and their favourite golf equipment all through the MLS season on the free Apple Sports activities app for iPhone. Customers can simply navigate between scores and upcoming matches; discover play-by-play info, group stats, lineup particulars, and dwell betting odds; and faucet to look at matches on the Apple TV app. Apple Sports activities additionally seamlessly syncs with favorites chosen inside the My Sports activities expertise, together with within the Apple TV app and Apple Information.
With iOS 18 and watchOS 11, the Apple Sports activities app affords Stay Actions for all MLS matches, delivering dwell scores and play-by-play information at a fast look to a consumer’s iPhone and Apple Watch Lock Screens. Sport Card Sharing lets followers share their pleasure across the newest outcomes and upcoming matches.
Extra Methods to Rejoice MLS
- On Apple Music, followers can get pleasure from unique club- and player-curated playlists, with extra music content material coming all through the season at apple.co/AM-MLS.
- Apple Maps customers can discover devoted Matchday Guides created by MLS golf equipment and metropolis guides created by gamers to seek out suggestions for native bars and eating places to catch a sport, discover metropolis favorites, discover detailed details about their stadiums, and extra.
- On Apple Information, customers can simply observe MLS and their favourite groups within the Sports activities tab and entry scores, schedules, standings, and prime tales from tons of of prime publishers.
- On Apple Podcasts, customers can entry an MLS hub with curated podcast episodes and collections masking MLS, its golf equipment and gamers, and soccer in North America.
Extra Methods to Watch
DIRECTV clients will now have entry to Apple TV’s dwell sports activities programming — together with MLS matches, F1 within the U.S., and “Friday Night time Baseball” — all accessible straight inside their houses, on the go, or at any of the 300,000-plus sports activities bars, eating places, lodges, and different business venues served by DIRECTV FOR BUSINESS. Anybody who subscribes to Apple TV by DIRECTV will now be capable of uncover and watch Apple TV’s dwell sports activities, together with all MLS matches, straight inside their DIRECTV expertise.
New for 2026, EverPass will supply business institutions entry to stream Apple TV’s full dwell sports activities portfolio — together with MLS, Components 1 within the U.S., and “Friday Night time Baseball” — accessible to new and present EverPass clients by the EverPass Core package deal.
Apple will once more work with Comcast to supply Xfinity clients an built-in viewing expertise for Apple TV’s dwell sports activities. Xfinity clients may have seamless entry to dwell “Friday Night time Baseball” video games; all MLS matches in English and Spanish; and within the U.S., all F1 observe, qualifying, Dash classes, and Grands Prix. Apple TV’s protection will likely be straight built-in into the Xfinity X1 and the Xfinity Stream app channel information so it’s simple to seek out and watch alongside all their different dwell sports activities.
Comcast and Apple are additionally unlocking free entry to MLS 360 — the favored whip-around studio present that gives dwell look-ins from each match — for all Xfinity clients. Prospects can discover MLS 360 within the channel information, Xfinity Fan View, and Xfinity Multiview all through the season.
Subscribe to Watch MLS on Apple TV
Apple TV affords premium, compelling drama and comedy sequence, characteristic movies, groundbreaking documentaries, dwell sports activities, and youngsters and household leisure, and is offered to look at throughout all of a consumer’s favourite screens. After its launch on November 1, 2019, Apple TV grew to become the primary all-original streaming service to launch world wide, and has premiered extra unique hits and acquired extra award recognitions sooner than some other streaming service in its debut. Up to now, Apple Unique movies, documentaries, and sequence have been honored with 698 wins and three,258 award nominations and counting, together with multi-Emmy Award-winning, history-making comedies The Studio and Ted Lasso, and Oscar Greatest Image winner CODA.
Apple TV is offered on the Apple TV app in over 100 nations and areas, on over 1 billion screens, together with iPhone; iPad; Apple TV 4K; Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional; Mac; standard sensible TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, VIZIO, TCL, and others; Roku and Amazon Fireplace TV gadgets; Chromecast with Google TV; PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles; and at television.apple.com, for $12.99 per thirty days with a seven-day free trial for brand spanking new subscribers. For a restricted time, clients who buy and activate a brand new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Mac can get pleasure from three months of Apple TV at no cost.1 For extra info, go to apple.com/tvpr and see the total checklist of supported gadgets.
A subscription to Apple TV for this season will likely be included with every full-season MLS membership ticket account.
- Particular supply is sweet for 3 months after the primary activation of the eligible machine. One supply per Household Sharing group. Plans routinely renew till cancelled. Different restrictions and phrases apply; go to apple.com/promo for extra info.
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