Why is MLS changing its schedule and format? | The Big Thing
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4.8 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
As you are no doubt aware by now, huge changes are coming to Major League Soccer in 2027, when the league will shift its competition calendar to a summer-though-spring format. The TSS gang is here with an in-depth look at how it will all work - and we look at the coming changes to the Apple broadcast deal, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Total Soccer Show and the glorious return of The Big Thing, |
| 0:24.6 | the episode where we hone in on a huge new story in the beautiful game. |
| 0:29.2 | And we certainly got one last Thursday when Major League Soccer announced its intention to shift its competition calendar to a summer through spring format, aligning it with |
| 0:38.5 | some of the biggest leagues in the world, so say they. On this episode, we'll break down the details, |
| 0:43.7 | the format, the benefits, the drawbacks and what it means for the league's growth. And we're |
| 0:48.2 | going to tackle the big development in the Apple TV sponsorship deal and the changes that are |
| 0:52.8 | coming there too. Lots of fun to be had. My name's |
| 0:55.2 | Ryan Bailey. Joining me to join in on that fun. Hello, Taylor Rockwell. Hello, Ryan Bailey. What |
| 1:00.4 | would you rather discuss the international break friendlies or MLS scheduling changes and broadcast |
| 1:05.9 | rights? You know it's MLS scheduling changes and broadcast rights. I didn't. I do now. Only because of Apple. |
| 1:12.2 | Graham Rathven knows. Hello, Graham. |
| 1:13.7 | Yeah, we brought back. We brought the big thing out of cold storage for admin and TV rights. |
| 1:19.4 | But I am genuinely excited to talk about both things because I'm nerds like that. And we're all nerds. |
| 1:24.8 | Exactly. |
| 1:26.3 | We're all nerds. Apart from Mr. Geraldower Lowry who's in his leather jacket doing his Fonzie thing. Hi Joe. How are you? Yeah. Yeah. Just don't watch the show. Just listen. If you're listening, that's true. That's very real. If you're watching, I don't know what to tell you. This is like my my sort of Super Bowl, I suppose. This is my Super Bowl I'm gonna I'm gonna |
| 1:44.5 | actually say I'm looking forward to talking about this show I am excited to dig |
| 1:48.0 | into all the nerdery that surrounds it and I think this is a pretty big deal so |
| 1:50.5 | I am I'm interested I'm interested for sure it's it's my Pro Bowl I'd say |
| 1:54.6 | it's important okay dress for it certainly I'm I'm pretty pleased that Ryan's |
| 2:00.1 | barometer for cool remains |
| 2:01.6 | fonsie that that's the keen takeaway from this introduction that in itself is tailic yeah |
| 2:07.8 | it's either that or steepershemi from 30 rock that's all that's the only two references i have |
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