Which is too bad; I was looking forward to selling those tickets and paying for my entire season ticket in one stroke.
If MLS doesn't change its scheduling system, Miami will never play here when Messi's around; the way MLS rotates its interconference games means those two teams won't play until 2025 at the earliest, and if the pattern holds, 2025 would be a home game for Miami and the return game would be in Portland in 26.
We played at Miami in 2022, 2025 should be in Portland. Messi probably announces his retirement the weekend before they come to Portland - sell early.
3 home games against opposite conference teams, 15 teams in the east means we play each one at home about every 5 years, away about every 5 years. More expansion will make that less often.
Right - if we play each EC team at home once every five years, then the earliest/next time Miami comes to Portland would be 2026. The last time they were here was October 2021. But, to someone else's point elsewhere in the thread - even if MLS changes their scheduling system, and even if Messi is still playing in 2025, what are the odds a then-38-year-old Messi gets on a plane for 5 hours to play in Portland?
Not quite - we play them at home every 5 years (and away every 5 years) but on average we do one or the other every 2.5.
There are currently 15 teams in the East, we play 3 of them at home every year, 3 on the road every year.
That assumes no format change next year which appears impossible with the addition of San Diego.
I anticipate MLS will reduce the number of West vs East games to 2 home and 2 away starting in 2025, so we would only see every east team at Prov Park every 7.5 years with such a change and potentially delay Miami by another year. Only 4 opposite conference games would let each West (and East) team play 28 in conference games which is exactly each team in your conference twice -- so the question is do they keep the "2 rivals x 3 games" or move to fewer opposite conference games. They do better marketing rivalries than San Jose vs Charlotte, so I suspect it will be the East matchups that go.
Only having 14 teams in the West has allowed us to play everyone twice (26 fixtures, plus 2 "rivalries" three times for games 27 and 28, and then 3 East teams at home, 3 on the road for 34).
Also, schedule's out:
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/#competition=mls-regular-season&date=2024-02-10
Which is too bad; I was looking forward to selling those tickets and paying for my entire season ticket in one stroke.
If MLS doesn't change its scheduling system, Miami will never play here when Messi's around; the way MLS rotates its interconference games means those two teams won't play until 2025 at the earliest, and if the pattern holds, 2025 would be a home game for Miami and the return game would be in Portland in 26.
We played at Miami in 2022, 2025 should be in Portland. Messi probably announces his retirement the weekend before they come to Portland - sell early.
3 home games against opposite conference teams, 15 teams in the east means we play each one at home about every 5 years, away about every 5 years. More expansion will make that less often.
Right - if we play each EC team at home once every five years, then the earliest/next time Miami comes to Portland would be 2026. The last time they were here was October 2021. But, to someone else's point elsewhere in the thread - even if MLS changes their scheduling system, and even if Messi is still playing in 2025, what are the odds a then-38-year-old Messi gets on a plane for 5 hours to play in Portland?
Not quite - we play them at home every 5 years (and away every 5 years) but on average we do one or the other every 2.5.
There are currently 15 teams in the East, we play 3 of them at home every year, 3 on the road every year.
That assumes no format change next year which appears impossible with the addition of San Diego.
I anticipate MLS will reduce the number of West vs East games to 2 home and 2 away starting in 2025, so we would only see every east team at Prov Park every 7.5 years with such a change and potentially delay Miami by another year. Only 4 opposite conference games would let each West (and East) team play 28 in conference games which is exactly each team in your conference twice -- so the question is do they keep the "2 rivals x 3 games" or move to fewer opposite conference games. They do better marketing rivalries than San Jose vs Charlotte, so I suspect it will be the East matchups that go.
Only having 14 teams in the West has allowed us to play everyone twice (26 fixtures, plus 2 "rivalries" three times for games 27 and 28, and then 3 East teams at home, 3 on the road for 34).
Thank goodness.