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The 2025 Chicago Fire FC season is the club's 28th season in Major League Soccer. This is the club's first season under owner Joe Mansuetto without sporting director Georg Heitz, who stepped down following the previous season's conclusion. [ 1 ]
The 2024 Chicago Fire FC season was the club's 26th year of existence, as well as their 27th season in Major League Soccer.This was the fifth and final season for sporting director Georg Heitz, who would leave following the season's conclusion, as well as the final season for head coach Frank Klopas as head coach- both men would be replaced by Gregg Berhalter following the season's conclusion.
The franchise, named in memory of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, was founded as the Chicago Fire Soccer Club on October 8, 1997, the Great Fire's 126th anniversary. The team began play in 1998 as one of the league's first expansion teams. The Fire won the MLS Cup as well as the U.S. Open Cup (the "double") in their first
On March 9, 2020, Gutiérrez signed a homegrown player deal with the club's first team in Major League Soccer. [ 2 ] Gutiérrez made his professional debut for the Chicago Fire on August 20, 2020, against Columbus Crew , coming on as an 82nd-minute substitute in a 3–0 defeat.
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. [2] [3] It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada. [4] [5] MLS is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.
The MLS Cup is the annual championship match of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top-level men's soccer league for the United States and Canada. The match marks the conclusion of the MLS Cup Playoffs, a five-round knockout competition contested by the top nine teams from each of the league's two conferences.
Sports in Chicago include many professional sports teams. Chicago is one of eleven U.S. cities to have teams from the five major American professional team sports (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and soccer). Chicago has been named as the "Best Sports City" by Sporting News three times: 1993, 2006, and 2010.
Dec. 7 – MLS Cup. Teams, TBD, 4 p.m. How to watch MLS playoffs. Every game of the 2024 MLS playoffs will be streamed on Apple TV. Select games, including MLS Cup, will be broadcast on Fox and ...