Major League Soccer Releases 2005 Regular Season Schedule
Published on February 14, 2005 under Major League Soccer (MLS) News Release
NEW YORK (Monday, February 14, 2005) - Major League Soccer today released the 2005 regular season schedule featuring 192 games which will be played between Saturday, April 2 and Sunday, October 16. In a season that will be marked by the League's 10th season celebrations, the 2005 All-Star break is scheduled for the weekend of July 30 with the MLS Cup champion being crowned on November 13.
With the League expanding to 12 teams in 2005 as Real Salt Lake and Club Deportivo Chivas USA play their inaugural seasons, each MLS team will play a 32-game schedule, up from 30 games played in 2004. All 12 clubs will play each of their conference opponents four times (twice at home and twice on the road) while meeting each of the six teams in the opposite conference over two games (one at home and one away).
The two expansion teams will feature prominently in 2005 with Los Angeles-based Chivas USA hosting MLS First Kick on April 2 in a nationally televised matchup against MLS Cup champion D.C. United at The Home Depot Center (ABC Sports at 3:00 p.m. ET). The season opens on that day with a full slate of six matches, including a recent change in the host of one opening day matchup as FC Dallas welcomes the Chicago Fire on April 2 while Chicago hosts FC Dallas on June 12.
In addition to opening the season on national television, Chivas USA will also host the regular season finale at The Home Depot Center when they host the MetroStars on October 16. The team will be sharing The Home Depot Center soccer stadium with the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2005 including eight times on the same weekend (May 7-8, May 21-22, June 11-12, July 2-4, July 22-23, September 3-4, September 24-25 and October 15-16).
The four highly anticipated local derbies between Chivas USA and the Los Angeles Galaxy, the first intra-city showdown in MLS history, begin on April 23. The Galaxy will be the home team on April 23 and July 16 while Chivas USA will be the hosts for the games on May 28 and October 8.
With one automatic rivalry developing in the city of Los Angeles, Real Salt Lake is also expected to engage in a regional competition with the neighboring Colorado Rapids over four head-to-head matches in the Western Conference. The two teams close out their 2005 campaigns in a match scheduled to be played at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City on October 15, as intra-conference games highlight the stretch run of the regular season.
The Rapids and the Los Angeles Galaxy will host two of the three games on Independence Day on July 4 in what has become a tradition since the inaugural 1996 season. Three games on July 2 will round out a full slate of matches on Independence Day weekend.
Another key event on the League calendar is the opening of the new FC Dallas soccer stadium at the Frisco Soccer & Entertainment Center in Frisco, Texas, where record rainfall has delayed the inauguration of the world's largest pro and youth soccer complex until the beginning of August. FC Dallas will play all home matches prior to August 6 at the Cotton Bowl. The new FSEC facility will host MLS Cup on November 13 as the League's 10th champion is crowned.
The complete League season schedule follows. Kick-off times and the national broadcast schedule will be released in the near future (schedule subject to change):
2005 MLS REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE* (*subject to change)
Saturday, April 2, 2005
D.C. United at Chivas USA (ABC, 3:00 p.m. ET)
Real Salt Lake at MetroStars
Los Angeles Galaxy at Columbus Crew
Chicago Fire at FC Dallas
Colorado Rapids at Kansas City Wizards
New England Revolution at San Jose Earthquakes
Saturday, April 9, 2005
Columbus Crew at New England Revolution
Chicago Fire at D.C. United
FC Dallas at Colorado Rapids
Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles Galaxy
Chivas USA at San Jose Earthquakes
Friday, April 15, 2005
D.C. United at Columbus Crew
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Colorado Rapids at Real Salt Lake
Kansas City Wizards at MetroStars
FC Dallas at Chivas USA
San Jose Earthquakes at Chicago Fire
Friday, April 22, 2005
Chicago Fire at MetroStars
Saturday, April 23, 2005
New England Revolution at D.C. United
Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas
Columbus Crew at Colorado Rapids
Chivas USA at Los Angeles Galaxy
Kansas City Wizards at San Jose Earthquakes
Saturday, April 30, 2005
San Jose Earthquakes at Real Salt Lake
Chivas USA at New England Revolution
Chicago Fire at Columbus Crew
D.C. United at Kansas City Wizards
MetroStars at Colorado Rapids
FC Dallas at Los Angeles Galaxy
Saturday, May 7, 2005
Real Salt Lake at Chivas USA
San Jose Earthquakes at MetroStars
Chicago Fire at New England Revolution
Columbus Crew at D.C. United
FC Dallas at Kansas City Wizards
Sunday, May 8, 2005
Colorado Rapids at Los Angeles Galaxy
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Los Angeles Galaxy at Real Salt Lake
D.C. United at New England Revolution
Kansas City Wizards at Columbus Crew
MetroStars at Chicago Fire
Chivas USA at Colorado Rapids
FC Dallas at San Jose Earthquakes
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Colorado Rapids at FC Dallas
Saturday, May 21, 2005
New England Revolution at MetroStars
Kansas City Wizards at D.C. United
Real Salt Lake at Columbus Crew
Colorado Rapids at Chicago Fire
San Jose Earthquakes at Los Angeles Galaxy
Sunday, May 22, 2005
FC Dallas at Chivas USA
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
New England Revolution at Chicago Fire
MetroStars at Kansas City Wizards
San Jose Earthquakes at Colorado Rapids
Columbus Crew at Los Angeles Galaxy
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Chicago Fire at Real Salt Lake
Los Angeles Galaxy at Chivas USA
Colorado Rapids at New England Revolution
FC Dallas at D.C. United
MetroStars at Columbus Crew
San Jose Earthquakes at Kansas City Wizards
Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Kansas City Wizards at Chivas USA
Friday, June 3, 2005
FC Dallas at Real Salt Lake
Saturday, June 4, 2005
Kansas City Wizards at New England Revolution
Chivas USA at Chicago Fire
MetroStars at Los Angeles Galaxy
D.C. United at San Jose Earthquakes
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Colorado Rapids at Columbus Crew
New England Revolution at Kansas City Wizards
Real Salt Lake at Los Angeles Galaxy
Sunday, June 12, 2005
FC Dallas at Chicago Fire
D.C. United at MetroStars
San Jose Earthquakes at Chivas USA
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Chicago Fire at D.C. United
Los Angeles Galaxy at Colorado Rapids
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Colorado Rapids at Chivas USA
Columbus Crew at MetroStars
New England Revolution at D.C. United
Kansas City Wizards at Chicago Fire
Los Angeles Galaxy at FC Dallas
Real Salt Lake at San Jose Earthquakes
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Los Angeles Galaxy at Real Salt Lake
New England Revolution at Columbus Crew
Chivas USA at FC Dallas
Saturday, June 25, 2005
MetroStars at New England Revolution
Chivas USA at Kansas City Wizards
FC Dallas at Colorado Rapids
Los Angeles Galaxy at San Jose Earthquakes
Sunday, June 26, 2005
Real Salt Lake at Chicago Fire
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Chicago Fire at MetroStars
Columbus Crew at Kansas City Wizards
Colorado Rapids at San Jose Earthquakes
Saturday, July 2, 2005
Chicago Fire at Chivas USA
D.C. United at Columbus Crew
San Jose Earthquakes at FC Dallas
Monday, July 4, 2005
MetroStars at Real Salt Lake
Kansas City Wizards at Colorado Rapids
New England Revolution at Los Angeles Galaxy
Saturday, July 9, 2005
Los Angeles Galaxy at MetroStars
Real Salt Lake at Chivas USA
Kansas City Wizards at D.C. United
San Jose Earthquakes at Columbus Crew
New England Revolution at Chicago Fire
Friday, July 15, 2005
San Jose Earthquakes at D.C. United
Saturday, July 16, 2005
Colorado Rapids at MetroStars
FC Dallas at New England Revolution
Columbus Crew at Chicago Fire
Real Salt Lake at Kansas City Wizards
Chivas USA at Los Angeles Galaxy
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
MetroStars at Columbus Crew
D.C. United at Kansas City Wizards
San Jose Earthquakes at Colorado Rapids
Friday, July 22, 2005
New England Revolution at Chivas USA
Saturday, July 23, 2005
FC Dallas at Real Salt Lake
Kansas City Wizards at Columbus Crew
Chicago Fire at Colorado Rapids
D.C. United at Los Angeles Galaxy
MetroStars at San Jose Earthquakes
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
FC Dallas at MetroStars
Los Angeles Galaxy at New England Revolution
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Real Salt Lake at D.C. United
Saturday, August 6, 2005
Chivas USA at Real Salt Lake
Kansas City Wizards at New England Revolution
D.C. United at Chicago Fire
MetroStars at FC Dallas
Los Angeles Galaxy at Colorado Rapids
Columbus Crew at San Jose Earthquakes
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Real Salt Lake at New England Revolution
MetroStars at D.C. United
Kansas City Wizards at Chicago Fire
Saturday, August 13, 2005
Kansas City Wizards at Real Salt Lake
Chivas USA at D.C. United
Los Angeles Galaxy at Chicago Fire
New England Revolution at FC Dallas
Colorado Rapids at San Jose Earthquakes
Sunday, August 14, 2005
Columbus Crew at MetroStars
Friday, August 19, 2005
Chicago Fire at Kansas City Wizards
Saturday, August 20, 2005
San Jose Earthquakes at Real Salt Lake
Los Angeles Galaxy at D.C. United
FC Dallas at Columbus Crew
New England Revolution at Colorado Rapids
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Chivas USA at MetroStars
Friday, August 26, 2005
Columbus Crew at Kansas City Wizards
Real Salt Lake at Colorado Rapids
Saturday, August 27, 2005
D.C. United at New England Revolution
Chivas USA at FC Dallas
Los Angeles Galaxy at San Jose Earthquakes
Sunday, August 28, 2005
MetroStars at Chicago Fire
Saturday, September 3, 2005
Columbus Crew at Chivas USA
Kansas City Wizards at MetroStars
San Jose Earthquakes at FC Dallas
D.C. United at Colorado Rapids
Sunday, September 4, 2005
Chicago Fire at Los Angeles Galaxy
Monday, September 5, 2005
New England Revolution at Real Salt Lake
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Columbus Crew at New England Revolution
D.C. United at FC Dallas
MetroStars at Kansas City Wizards
Colorado Rapids at Los Angeles Galaxy
Chivas USA at San Jose Earthquakes
Saturday, September 17, 2005
San Jose Earthquakes at Chivas USA
New England Revolution at MetroStars
Colorado Rapids at D.C. United
Chicago Fire at Columbus Crew
Los Angeles Galaxy at Kansas City Wizards
Sunday, September 18, 2005
Real Salt Lake at FC Dallas
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Chivas USA at Real Salt Lake
New England Revolution at Columbus Crew
Los Angeles Galaxy at FC Dallas
Chicago Fire at San Jose Earthquakes
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Columbus Crew at Real Salt Lake
Colorado Rapids at Chivas USA
MetroStars at New England Revolution
D.C. United at Chicago Fire
FC Dallas at San Jose Earthquakes
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Kansas City Wizards at Los Angeles Galaxy
Saturday, October 1, 2005
D.C. United at MetroStars
San Jose Earthquakes at New England Revolution
Chivas USA at Columbus Crew
Chicago Fire at Kansas City Wizards
Real Salt Lake at Colorado Rapids
FC Dallas at Los Angeles Galaxy
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Columbus Crew at FC Dallas
Chivas USA at Colorado Rapids
D.C. United at Real Salt Lake
Saturday, October 8, 2005
Los Angeles Galaxy at Chivas USA
MetroStars at D.C. United
Columbus Crew at Chicago Fire
Colorado Rapids at FC Dallas
New England Revolution at Kansas City Wizards
Real Salt Lake at San Jose Earthquakes
Saturday, October 15, 2005
Colorado Rapids at Real Salt Lake
Chicago Fire at New England Revolution
Columbus Crew at D.C. United
Kansas City Wizards at F.C. Dallas
San Jose Earthquakes at Los Angeles Galaxy
Sunday, October 16, 2005
MetroStars at Chivas USA
END OF 2005 REGULAR SEASON
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