Promotion/Relegation in Major League Soccer/ US Soccer?

Promotion/Relegation in Major League Soccer/ US Soccer? Exploring the odd machinations of the battle between the USL and NASL, and the potential of ever having promotion/relegation in US Professional Soccer. The Straight Red Card. Seattle Sounders. Rochester Rhinos.

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Sports

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• US Soccer
• Major League Soccer
• MLS
• USSF
• USL
• NASL
• Rochester Rhinos
• AC St. Louis
• The Straight Red Card
• Derek Richey
• Brett Corbit
• Seattle Sounders.

[STaT1o23]

on the flip end of that, the MLS owners who came in during this current expansion boom, since RSL came in will definitely need to get a piece of that windfall pie too. I suggest they recieve their expansion fee recouped, that way everybody is on even keel as far as the fuss over the money they stand to lose if they go down. Now if the US does NOT get the WC Bid, it will safely be a good 20-30 years from now, unless the US goes after another WC Bid in that time.

[dwreck1971]

@STaT1o23

I'm not sure I see future World Cup bids playing a huge role in the P/R story. Americans are now emotionally invested enough in soccer club teams that it goes beyond the mere connection to the national team. I'm banking that the steady growth of the sport is likely, regardless.

[ChampCarforlife]

@dwreck1971

I think in next show you should revisit this subject now that the NASL is now a D2 league.

[dwreck1971]

@ChampCarforlife

Unfortunately they only have 8 teams.

[trwfilmsinc]

The lack promotion relegation could have killed the USA's World Cup bid. Wasn't that topic one of the first things Sepp Blatter asked Pres. Obama?

But I think first and foremost, before we even think about promotion and relegation, we need (as you said) a stable D2 and D3 league. Possibly the first step towards this is having a home-away leg playoff between the worst team in MLS and best team in NASL. MLS team wins the playoff, they stay in MLS, NASL team wins...they got to MLS.

[Ge0vone]

I'm all for promotion and relegation

[98raza20]

MLS should buy into USL and create US lower leagues while introducing promotion and relegation. People say the owners wouldn't agree to move to it coz they spent all the money getting into MLS, I say they spent it getting it into the US soccer including USL. We should think about MLS long term future instead of getting our hands on the owners money. And + new teams would have to start at the bottom of USL forcing them to invest into the squad if they want MLS not just buy their way into MLS.

[trwfilmsinc]

Also, they could possibly do what the Scottish Premier League does, and have stadia requirements. If that's the case, MLS will set a standard that every MLS club meets and no NASL club can meet...probably somewhere around a capacity of 16,500 seats. (Since the small SSS in MLS is around 17K, while the largest NASL stadium is around 13K).

[pwnage1731]

If you build the culture they will come. :D

[STaT1o23]

@dwreck1971

You just have to expose the public to it, plus it answers the question/issue MLS has of reaching out to regions not presently and likely won't get to be in MLS automatically. It's definitely high risk, high reward if they did it. Depending on how much money USSF receives overall from the WC, which could and likely will be a TON, that's the biggest hurdle at least from the ownership side of it.