2016 Major League Soccer season

The 2016 Major League Soccer season featured 20 total clubs (17 based in the United States, 3 based in Canada). The regular season began on March 6 and ended on October 23. The playoffs began on October 26 and ended on December 10. The defending MLS Cup champions were the Portland Timbers, while the New York Red Bulls were the defending Supporters' Shield winners. FC Dallas won the Supporter's Shield for the first time, and the Seattle Sounders FC won their first MLS Cup in their history after defeating Toronto FC 5–4 in a penalty kick shootout, after playing to a 0–0 result after regulation and added extra time.

Major League Soccer

Season	2016
MLS Cup	Seattle Sounders FC (1st title)
Supporters' Shield	FC Dallas (1st shield)
Champions League (United States)	Colorado Rapids FC Dallas New York Red Bulls Seattle Sounders FC
Champions League (Canada)	Toronto FC
Matches played	340
Goals scored	956 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bradley Wright-Phillips (24 goals)
Best goalkeeper	Luis Robles (11 shutouts)
Biggest home win	5 goals: HOU 5–0 DAL (Mar 12) SEA 5–0 DAL (Jul 13) DC 6–1 CHI (August 27)
Biggest away win	7 goals: NYC 0–7 NY (May 21)
Highest scoring	8 goals: CLB 4–4 MTL (May 7) DC 6–2 CHI (Aug 27)
Longest winning run	4 games: New York Red Bulls (May 18 – Jun 19) New York City FC (Jun 18 – Jul 6) LA Galaxy (Jul 4 – Jul 23) Toronto FC (Jul 23 – Aug 6) Seattle Sounders FC (Sep 17 – Oct 2) D.C. United (Sep 24 – Oct 16) New York Red Bulls (Sep 24 – Oct 23) Toronto FC (Oct 23 – Nov 6) Montreal Impact (Oct 27 – Nov 22)
Longest unbeaten run	16 games: New York Red Bulls (Jul 10 – Oct 23)
Longest winless run	10 games: Columbus Crew SC (Jun 1 – Aug 13)
Longest losing run	4 games: New York Red Bulls (Apr 1 – Apr 16) New England Revolution (Jul 31 – Aug 20) Vancouver Whitecaps FC (Jul 31 – Aug 20) Philadelphia Union (Oct 1 – Oct 26)
Highest attendance	60,147 ORL 2–2 RSL (Mar 6)
Lowest attendance	10,144 NE 1–1 POR (Apr 27)
Total attendance	7,345,265
Average attendance	21,692
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Teams

Stadiums and locations

Main article: List of Major League Soccer stadiums

Western Conference Team Stadium Capacity Colorado Rapids Dick's Sporting Goods Park 17,424 FC Dallas Toyota Stadium 20,500 Houston Dynamo BBVA Compass Stadium 22,039 LA Galaxy StubHub Center 27,000 Portland Timbers Providence Park 21,144 Real Salt Lake Rio Tinto Stadium 20,213 San Jose Earthquakes Avaya Stadium 18,000 Seattle Sounders FC CenturyLink Field[A] 40,000 Sporting Kansas City Children's Mercy Park 18,467 Vancouver Whitecaps FC BC Place[A] 22,500

Eastern Conference Team Stadium Capacity Chicago Fire Toyota Park 20,000 Columbus Crew SC Mapfre Stadium 20,145 D.C. United RFK Stadium[A] 20,000 Montreal Impact Saputo Stadium 20,801 New England Revolution Gillette Stadium[A] 20,000 New York City FC Yankee Stadium[A] 30,000 New York Red Bulls Red Bull Arena 25,000 Orlando City SC Camping World Stadium[A] 33,500 Philadelphia Union Talen Energy Stadium 18,500 Toronto FC BMO Field 30,991

D.C. United Red Bulls Columbus New England Chicago Kansas City Toronto Philadelphia Montreal Orlando NYCFC Colorado Dallas Galaxy Houston Salt Lake Portland San Jose Seattle Vancouver Locations of teams for the 2016 Major League Soccer season Western Conference   Eastern Conference

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   Non-soccer specific stadium and artificially reduced capacity.

Personnel and sponsorship

Note: All teams use Adidas as kit manufacturer.

Team	Head coach	Captain	Shirt sponsor
Chicago Fire	Veljko Paunović	Răzvan Cociș	Valspar
Colorado Rapids	Pablo Mastroeni	Sam Cronin	Transamerica
Columbus Crew SC	Gregg Berhalter	Michael Parkhurst	Barbasol
D.C. United	Ben Olsen	Bobby Boswell	Leidos
FC Dallas	Óscar Pareja	Matt Hedges	AdvoCare
Houston Dynamo	Wílmer Cabrera	DaMarcus Beasley	BHP Billiton
LA Galaxy	Bruce Arena	Robbie Keane	Herbalife
Montreal Impact	Mauro Biello	Patrice Bernier	Bank of Montreal
New England Revolution	Jay Heaps	Lee Nguyen	UnitedHealthcare
New York City FC	Patrick Vieira	David Villa	Etihad Airways
New York Red Bulls	Jesse Marsch	Dax McCarty	Red Bull
Orlando City SC	Jason Kreis	Kaká	Orlando Health
Philadelphia Union	Jim Curtin	Brian Carroll	Bimbo
Portland Timbers	Caleb Porter	Liam Ridgewell	Alaska Airlines
Real Salt Lake	Jeff Cassar	Kyle Beckerman	LifeVantage
San Jose Earthquakes	Dominic Kinnear	Chris Wondolowski	Sutter Health
Seattle Sounders FC	Brian Schmetzer	Brad Evans	Xbox
Sporting Kansas City	Peter Vermes	Matt Besler	Ivy Funds
Toronto FC	Greg Vanney	Michael Bradley	Bank of Montreal
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Carl Robinson	Pedro Morales	Bell Canada

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Houston Dynamo	Owen Coyle	Mutual consent	May 25, 2016	10th in West, 18th overall	Wade Barrett (interim)	June 7, 2016
Orlando City SC	Adrian Heath	Mutual consent	July 6, 2016[1]	7th in East, 15th overall	Bobby Murphy (interim)	July 7, 2016
	Bobby Murphy (interim)	End of interim period	July 19, 2016	8th in East, 16th overall	Jason Kreis	July 19, 2016[2]
Seattle Sounders FC	Sigi Schmid	Mutual consent	July 26, 2016	9th in West, 17th overall	Brian Schmetzer (interim)	July 26, 2016[3]
Houston Dynamo	Wade Barrett (interim)	End of interim period	October 28, 2016	10th in West, 18th overall	Wílmer Cabrera	October 28, 2016[4]

Standings

Eastern Conference

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	New York Red Bulls	34	16	9	9	61	44	+17	57	MLS Cup Conference Semifinals
2	New York City FC	34	15	10	9	62	57	+5	54
3	Toronto FC	34	14	9	11	51	39	+12	53	MLS Cup Knockout Round
4	D.C. United	34	11	10	13	53	47	+6	46
5	Montreal Impact	34	11	11	12	49	53	−4	45
6	Philadelphia Union	34	11	14	9	52	55	−3	42
7	New England Revolution	34	11	14	9	44	54	−10	42
8	Orlando City SC	34	9	11	14	55	60	−5	41
9	Columbus Crew SC	34	8	14	12	50	58	−8	36
10	Chicago Fire	34	7	17	10	42	58	−16	31

Source: MLS

Western Conference

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Dallas	34	17	8	9	50	40	+10	60	MLS Cup Conference Semifinals
2	Colorado Rapids	34	15	6	13	39	32	+7	58
3	LA Galaxy	34	12	6	16	54	39	+15	52	MLS Cup Knockout Round
4	Seattle Sounders FC	34	14	14	6	44	43	+1	48
5	Sporting Kansas City	34	13	13	8	42	41	+1	47
6	Real Salt Lake	34	12	12	10	44	46	−2	46
7	Portland Timbers	34	12	14	8	48	53	−5	44
8	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	34	10	15	9	45	52	−7	39
9	San Jose Earthquakes	34	8	12	14	32	40	−8	38
10	Houston Dynamo	34	7	14	13	39	45	−6	34

Source: MLS

Overall standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	FC Dallas (S)	34	17	8	9	50	40	+10	60	CONCACAF Champions League
2	Colorado Rapids	34	15	6	13	39	32	+7	58
3	New York Red Bulls	34	16	9	9	61	44	+17	57
4	New York City FC	34	15	10	9	62	57	+5	54
5	Toronto FC	34	14	9	11	51	39	+12	53	CONCACAF Champions League
6	LA Galaxy	34	12	6	16	54	39	+15	52
7	Seattle Sounders FC (C)	34	14	14	6	44	43	+1	48	CONCACAF Champions League
8	Sporting Kansas City	34	13	13	8	42	41	+1	47
9	Real Salt Lake	34	12	12	10	44	46	−2	46
10	D.C. United	34	11	10	13	53	47	+6	46
11	Montreal Impact	34	11	11	12	49	53	−4	45
12	Portland Timbers	34	12	14	8	48	53	−5	44
13	Philadelphia Union	34	11	14	9	52	55	−3	42
14	New England Revolution	34	11	14	9	44	54	−10	42
15	Orlando City SC	34	9	11	14	55	60	−5	41
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	34	10	15	9	45	52	−7	39
17	San Jose Earthquakes	34	8	12	14	32	40	−8	38
18	Columbus Crew SC	34	8	14	12	50	58	−8	36
19	Houston Dynamo	34	7	14	13	39	45	−6	34
20	Chicago Fire	34	7	17	10	42	58	−16	31

Source: MLS
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) total wins; 3) total goal differential; 4) total goals scored;
(C) MLS Cup Champion; (S) Supporters' Shield

MLS Cup Playoffs

Main article: 2016 MLS Cup Playoffs

Bracket

	Knockout round					Conference semifinals							Conference finals							MLS Cup December 10 – Toronto, Ontario
						E5	Montreal Impact	1	2	3
	October 27 – Washington, D.C.
						E1	New York Red Bulls	0	1	1
	E4	D.C. United	2
	E5	Montreal Impact	4
													E5	Montreal Impact	3	2	5
	Eastern Conference
													E3	Toronto FC (a.e.t.)	2	5	7
						E3	Toronto FC	2	5	7
	October 26 – Toronto, Ontario
						E2	New York City FC	0	0	0
	E3	Toronto FC	3
	E6	Philadelphia Union	1
																				E3	Toronto FC	0 (4)
																				W4	Seattle Sounders FC (p)	0 (5)
						W4	Seattle Sounders FC	3	1	4
	October 27 – Seattle, Washington
						W1	FC Dallas	0	2	2
	W4	Seattle Sounders FC	1
	W5	Sporting Kansas City	0
													W4	Seattle Sounders FC	2	1	3
	Western Conference
													W2	Colorado Rapids	1	0	1
						W3	LA Galaxy	1	0	1 (1)
	October 26 – Carson, California
						W2	Colorado Rapids (p)	0	1	1 (3)
	W3	LA Galaxy	3
	W6	Real Salt Lake	1

Attendance

See also: Major League Soccer attendance

Average home attendances

Ranked from highest to lowest average attendance.

As of October 24, 2016^[5]

Pos.	Team	GP	Cumulative	High	Low	Mean
1	Seattle Sounders FC	17	724,809	53,302	39,269	42,636
2	Orlando City SC	17	502,478	60,147	23,802	31,324
3	New York City FC	17	462,336	37,858	22,736	27,196
4	Toronto FC	17	451,917	30,262	22,212	26,583
5	LA Galaxy	17	427,492	27,167	19,651	25,147
6	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	17	379,603	27,038	18,836	22,330
7	Portland Timbers	17	359,448	21,144	21,144	21,144
8	Montreal Impact	17	351,366	27,545	16,318	20,669
9	New York Red Bulls	17	350,535	25,218	15,167	20,620
10	New England Revolution	17	343,150	39,587	10,144	20,185
11	San Jose Earthquakes	17	338,816	50,816	18,000	19,930
12	Real Salt Lake	17	335,909	20,389	18,036	19,759
13	Sporting Kansas City	17	333,155	20,618	18,563	19,549
14	Houston Dynamo	17	323,361	21,601	15,045	19,597
15	Philadelphia Union	17	297,825	18,681	15,011	17,519
16	Columbus Crew SC	17	291,128	20,389	13,114	17,125
17	D.C. United	17	290,381	30,943	12,094	17,081
18	Colorado Rapids	17	276,721	18,759	10,670	16,278
19	Chicago Fire	17	265,234	18,976	12,073	15,602
20	FC Dallas	17	239,601	16,215	10,381	14,094
–	Total	340	7,375,144	60,147	10,144	21,692

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   Non-soccer specific stadium and artificially reduced capacity.

Highest attendances

Regular season

As of October 24, 2016^[6]

Rank	Home team	Score	Away team	Attendance	Date	Week	Stadium
1	Orlando City SC	2–2	Real Salt Lake	60,147	March 6, 2016 (2016-03-06)	1	Orlando Citrus Bowl
2	Seattle Sounders FC	3–1	Portland Timbers	53,302	August 21, 2016	25	CenturyLink Field
3	San Jose Earthquakes	1–1	Los Angeles Galaxy	50,816	June 25, 2016 (2016-06-25)	15	Stanford Stadium
4	Seattle Sounders FC	2–1	Real Salt Lake	50,022	October 23, 2016	34	CenturyLink Field
5	Seattle Sounders FC	1–1	Los Angeles Galaxy	48,458	July 31, 2016	22	CenturyLink Field
6	Seattle Sounders FC	0–2	New York City FC	47,537	June 25, 2016	15	CenturyLink Field
7	Seattle Sounders FC	1–0	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	47,111	September 17, 2016	30	CenturyLink Field
8	Seattle Sounders FC	0–1	Colorado Rapids	41,028	May 21, 2016 (2016-05-21)	11	CenturyLink Field
9	Seattle Sounders FC	0–1	Los Angeles Galaxy	40,813	July 9, 2016	18	CenturyLink Field
10	Seattle Sounders FC	5–0	FC Dallas	40,101	July 13, 2016	19	CenturyLink Field

Player statistics

Goals

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	25
2	David Villa	New York City FC	24
3	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	17
	Ignacio Piatti	Montreal Impact
5	Fanendo Adi	Portland Timbers	16
	Dom Dwyer	Sporting Kansas City
	Ola Kamara	Columbus Crew
8	Giovani Dos Santos	LA Galaxy	14
	Cyle Larin	Orlando City SC
	Diego Valeri	Portland Timbers

Hat-tricks

Main article: List of Major League Soccer hat-tricks

Player	Club	Against	Result	Date
Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	Toronto FC	3–0	May 28
Ola Kamara	Columbus Crew SC	Real Salt Lake	4–3	May 28
Roland Alberg	Philadelphia Union	Chicago Fire	4–3	June 22
Didier Drogba	Montreal Impact	Philadelphia Union	5–1	July 23
Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	D.C. United	4–1	July 23
Frank Lampard	New York City FC	Colorado Rapids	5–1	July 30
Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	New England Revolution	4–1	August 6
Clint Dempsey	Seattle Sounders FC	Orlando City SC	3–1	August 7
Patrick Mullins	D.C. United	Chicago Fire	6–2	August 27
Mauro Manotas	Houston Dynamo	Portland Timbers	3–1	September 24
Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	New York City FC	5–0	November 6

Assists

Rank	Player	Club	Assists
1	Sacha Kljestan	New York Red Bulls	20
2	Sebastian Giovinco	Toronto FC	15
3	Mauro Díaz	FC Dallas	13
	Benny Feilhaber	Sporting Kansas City
	Justin Meram	Columbus Crew
6	Giovani Dos Santos	LA Galaxy	12
7	Luciano Acosta	D.C. United	11
	Steven Gerrard	LA Galaxy
	Andrea Pirlo	New York City FC
	Joao Plata	Real Salt Lake

Clean Sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Clean Sheets
1	Luis Robles	New York Red Bulls	11
2	Chris Seitz	FC Dallas	10
3	Brian Rowe	LA Galaxy	9
4	David Bingham	San Jose Earthquakes	8
	Steve Clark	Columbus Crew SC
	Stefan Frei	Seattle Sounders FC
	Tim Melia	Sporting Kansas City
	Josh Saunders	New York City FC
9	Tim Howard	Colorado Rapids	7
10	7 players		6

Awards

Player of the Month

Month	Player	Club	Stats
March	Joao Plata	Real Salt Lake	3G, 2A
April	Fanendo Adi	Portland Timbers	3G, 1A
May	Bradley Wright-Phillips	New York Red Bulls	6G, 2A
June	Yura Movsisyan	Real Salt Lake	3G
July	Frank Lampard	New York City FC	6G, 1A
August	Nicolás Lodeiro	Seattle Sounders FC	2G, 6A
September	Chad Marshall	Seattle Sounders FC	1G
October	Justin Meram	Columbus Crew	1G, 4A

Weekly awards

Week	MLS Player of the Week		MLS Goal of the Week		MLS Save of the Week
	Player	Club	Player	Club	Player	Club
1	Mike Magee[7]	LA Galaxy	Ignacio Piatti[8]	Montreal Impact	Evan Bush[9]	Montreal Impact
2	Andrew Wenger[10]	Houston Dynamo	Cyle Larin[11]	Orlando City SC	Brian Rowe[12]	LA Galaxy
3	Felipe[13]	New York Red Bulls	Felipe[14]	New York Red Bulls	Tim Melia[15]	Sporting Kansas City
4	Michael Barrios[16]	FC Dallas	Thomas McNamara[17]	New York City FC	Bobby Shuttleworth[18]	New England Revolution
5	Kaká[19]	Orlando City SC	Adam Jahn[20]	San Jose Earthquakes	Joe Bendik[21]	Orlando City SC
6	Fabián Espíndola[22]	D.C. United	Alberto Quintero[23]	San Jose Earthquakes	David Bingham[24]	San Jose Earthquakes
7	Giovani dos Santos[25]	LA Galaxy	Ignacio Piatti[26]	Montreal Impact	Nick Rimando[27]	Real Salt Lake
8	Emmanuel Boateng[28]	LA Galaxy	Luciano Acosta[29]	D.C. United	David Bingham[30]	San Jose Earthquakes
9	Jake Gleeson[31]	Portland Timbers	Maxim Tissot[32]	Montreal Impact	Joe Bendik[33]	Orlando City SC
10	Ignacio Piatti[34]	Montreal Impact	Ignacio Piatti[35]	Montreal Impact	Tim Melia[36]	Sporting Kansas City
11	Kekuta Manneh[37]	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Blas Perez[38]	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	Joe Bendik[39]	Orlando City SC
12	Bradley Wright-Phillips[40]	New York Red Bulls	Cyle Larin[41]	Orlando City SC	Joe Bendik[39]	Orlando City SC
13	Ola Kamara[42]	Columbus Crew SC	Kevin Molino[43]	Orlando City SC	Luis Robles[44]	New York Red Bulls
14	Chris Pontius[45]	Philadelphia Union	Chris Pontius[46]	Philadelphia Union	Nick Rimando[47]	Real Salt Lake
15	Mike Grella[48]	New York Red Bulls	Júlio Baptista[49]	Orlando City SC	Jake Gleeson[50]	Portland Timbers
16	Roland Alberg[51]	Philadelphia Union	Lamar Neagle[52]	D.C. United	Andre Blake[53]	Philadelphia Union
17	Jack Harrison[54]	New York City FC	Cristian Maidana[55]	Houston Dynamo	Joe Bendik[56]	Orlando City SC
18	Ilsinho[57]	Philadelphia Union	Lee Nguyen[58]	New England Revolution	Brian Rowe[59]	LA Galaxy
19	Diego Valeri[60]	Portland Timbers	Jack Harrison[61]	New York City FC	Joe Bendik[62]	Orlando City SC
20	Sebastian Giovinco[63]	Toronto FC	Ignacio Piatti[64]	Montreal Impact	Joe Bendik[65]	Orlando City SC
21	Frank Lampard[66]	New York City FC	Cyle Larin[67]	Orlando City SC	Joe Bendik[68]	Orlando City SC
22	Sebastian Giovinco[69]	Toronto FC	Javier Morales[70]	Real Salt Lake	Joe Bendik[71]	Orlando City SC
23	Bradley Wright-Phillips[72]	New York Red Bulls	Shkelzen Gashi[73]	Colorado Rapids	Bill Hamid[74]	D.C. United
24	Clint Dempsey[75]	Seattle Sounders FC	Luis Solignac[76]	Chicago Fire SC	Joe Willis[77]	Houston Dynamo
25	Patrick Mullins[78]	D.C. United	Yura Movsisyan[79]	Real Salt Lake	Joe Bendik[80]	Orlando City SC
26	Frank Lampard[81]	New York City FC	Giovani dos Santos[82]	LA Galaxy	Brad Knighton[83]	New England Revolution
27	Giovani dos Santos[84]	LA Galaxy	Joao Plata[85]	Real Salt Lake	Joe Bendik[86]	Orlando City SC
28	Kelyn Rowe[87]	New England Revolution	Cyle Larin[88]	Orlando City SC	David Ousted[89]	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
29	Mauro Manotas[90]	Houston Dynamo	Shkelzen Gashi[91]	Colorado Rapids	Brad Knighton[92]	New England Revolution

Team of the Week

Team of the Week
Week	Goalkeeper	Defender	Midfielder	Forward
1[93]	Bingham (SJ)	Cole (LA) Moor (TOR) Zimmerman (DAL)	Chara (POR) Fagundez (NE) Martinez (RSL) McNamara (NYC)	Larin (ORL) Magee (LA) Piatti (MTL)
2[94]	Blake (PHI)	Beasley (HOU) Ciman (MTL) Williams (COL)	Mustivar (SKC) Pontius (PHI) Sunday (RSL) Wenger (HOU)	Dwyer (SKC) Piatti (MTL) Villa (NYC)
3 [95]	Shuttleworth (NE)	Hollingshead (DAL) Rosenberry (PHI) Waston (VAN)	Díaz (DAL) Felipe (NYR) Higuita (ORL) Zardes (LA)	Adi (POR) Bruin (HOU) Sapong (PHI)
4 [96]	Ousted (VAN)	Bravo (NYC) Jacobson (VAN) Tierney (NE)	Bunbury (NE) Díaz (DAL) McNamara (NYC) Morales (VAN)	Barrios (DAL) Castillo (DAL) Urruti (DAL)
5 [97]	Ousted (VAN)	Kappelhof (CHI) Maund (RSL) Rogers (LA) Shea (ORL)	Alonso (SEA) Higuita (ORL) Neagle (DC) Plata (RSL)	Gashi (COL) Kaká (ORL)
6 [98]	Melia (SKC)	Ciman (MTL) Marshall (SEA) Matarrita (NYC)	Barnes (HOU) Chara (POR) Koffie (NE) Piatti (MTL)	Amarikwa (SJ) Espíndola (DC) Saborío (DC)
7 [99]	Rimando (RSL)	Beitashour (TOR) Ciman (MTL) Phillips (RSL)	Ivanschitz (SEA) Jones (COL) Meram (CLB) Piatti (MTL)	Adi (POR) Castillo (DAL) Dos Santos (LA)
8[100]	Ousted (VAN)	Boswell (DC) Harvey (VAN) Moor (TOR)	Barnetta (PHI) Boateng (LA) Bradley (TOR) Kljestan (NYR)	Dos Santos (LA) Giovinco (TOR) Wright-Phillips (NYR)
9[101]	Gleeson (POR)	Scott (SEA) Wynne (SJ) Zusi (SKC)	Allen (RSL) Felipe (NYR) Gashi (COL) Kljestan (NYR) Valeri (POR)	Drogba (MTL) Villa (NYC)
10[102]	Irwin (TOR)	Horst (HOU) Matarrita (NYC) Perquis (TOR)	Jones (COL) Kljestan (NYR) Nagbe (POR) Piatti (MTL)	Kudo (VAN) Morris (SEA) Zardes (LA)
11[103]	Worra (DC)	Hernandez (NYC) Williams (COL) Zimmerman (DAL)	Espinoza (SKC) Manneh (VAN) Nyarko (DC) Quintero (SJ)	Giovinco (TOR) Pérez (VAN) Villa (NYC)
12[104]	Bendik (ORL)	Glad (RSL) Marquez (PHI) Sjöberg (COL)	Acosta (DAL) Grella (NYR) Kaká (ORL) McCarty (NYR) Nagbe (POR)	Akindele (DAL) Wright-Phillips (NYR)
13[105]	Robles (NYR)	Allen (NYC) Beasley (HOU) Opare (DC)	Kljestan (NYR) Molino (ORL) Nguyen (NE) Piatti (MTL)	Drogba (MTL) Kamara (CLB) Wright-Phillips (NYR)
14[106]	Gleeson (POR)	Medranda (SKC) Opara (SKC) Ridgewell (POR) Rosenberry (PHI)	Chara (POR) Nogueira (PHI) Pontius (PHI) Roldan (SEA)	Kamara (CLB) Movsisyan (RSL)
15[107]	Hamid (DC)	Burch (COL) Moor (TOR) Abdul-Salaam (SKC)	Salinas (SJ) Felipe (NYR) Feilhaber (SKC) Harrison (NYC) Grella (NYR)	Villa (NYC) Martínez (RSL)
16[108]	Irwin (TOR)	Matarrita (NYC) Wynne (SJ) Robinson (DC)	Kaká (ORL) Valeri (POR) Alberg (PHI) Díaz (DAL) Neagle (DC)	Manneh (VAN) Dwyer (SKC)
17[109]	Hamid (DC)	Beasley (HOU) Zimmerman (DAL) Ramos (CHI)	Zusi (SKC) Gerrard (LA) Díaz (DAL) Harrison (NYC)	Kamara (NE) Kamara (CLB) Salazar (MTL)
18[110]	Gleeson (POR)	Phillips (RSL) Van Damme (LA) Hedges (DAL) Morrow (TOR)	Alberg (PHI) Larentowicz (LA) Feilhaber (SKC) Ilsinho (PHI)	Doyle (COL) Kamara (NE)
19[111]	Robles (NYR)	Sjöberg (COL) Bernárdez (SJ) Maund (RSL)	Castillo (DAL) Kljestan (NYR) Valeri (POR) Díaz (DAL) Ivanschitz (SEA)	Villa (NYC) Dos Santos (LA)
20[112]	Ousted (VAN)	Oyongo (MTL) Van Damme (LA) Woodberry (NE)	Muyl (NYR) Kljestan (NYR) Cronin (COL) Piatti (MTL)	Dwyer (SKC) Giovinco (TOR) Drogba (MTL)
21[113]	Bingham (SJ)	Opara (SKC) Van Damme (LA) Moor (TOR)	Molino (ORL) Lodeiro (SEA) Lampard (NYC) McNamara (NYC)	Urruti (DAL) Giovinco (TOR) Plata (RSL)
22[114]	Bush (MTL)	Burch (COL) Chanot (NYC) Moor (TOR)	Valeri (POR) Lodeiro (SEA) Morales (RSL) Hairston (COL)	Morris (SEA) Giovinco (TOR) Dempsey (SEA)
23[115]	Bingham (SJ)	Birnbaum (DC) Agus (HOU) Marshall (SEA)	Pontius (PHI) Barnetta (PHI) Davis (NYR) Finlay (CLB)	Villa (NYC) Wright-Phillips (NYR) Dwyer (SKC)
24[116]	Willis (HOU)	Parkhurst (CLB) Olave (RSL) Horst (HOU) Matarrita (NYC)	Roldan (SEA) Feilhaber (SKC) Accam (CHI)	Dempsey (SEA) Wright-Phillips (NYR) Altidore (TOR)
25[117]	Howard (COL)	Camara (MTL) Næss (CLB) Rosenberry (PHI)	Beckerman (RSL) Kaká (ORL) Felipe (NYR) Valeri (POR) Barrios (DAL)	Mullins (DC) Movsisyan (RSL)
26[118]	Johnson (CHI)	Farrell (NE) Zimmerman (DAL) Collin (NYR) Meira (CHI)	Lletget (LA) Díaz (DAL) Lampard (NYC) Rowe (NE)	Wright-Phillips (NYR) de Leeuw (CHI)
27[119]	Howard (COL)	Vytas (POR) Waston (VAN) Stewart (SJ)	Garcia (HOU) Kaká (ORL) Azira (COL) Koffie (NE) Fagundez (NE)	Altidore (TOR) Dos Santos (LA)

End-of-season awards

Award	Player/Club
Most Valuable Player	David Villa[120]
Defender of the Year	Matt Hedges[121]
Goalkeeper of the Year	Andre Blake[122]
Coach of the Year	Óscar Pareja[123]
Rookie of the Year	Jordan Morris[124]
Newcomer of the Year	Nicolás Lodeiro[125]
Comeback Player of the Year	Chris Pontius[126]
Golden Boot	Bradley Wright-Phillips[127]
Fair Play Player Award	Keegan Rosenberry[128]
Fair Play Team Award	Columbus Crew SC[128]
Humanitarian of the Year	Matt Lampson[129]
Referee of the Year	Alan Kelly[130]
Assistant Referee of the Year	Frank Anderson[130]
Goal of the Year	Shkëlzen Gashi[131]
Save of the Year	Joe Bendik[132]

Best XI

Goalkeeper	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Andre Blake, Philadelphia	Axel Sjöberg, Colorado Matt Hedges, Dallas Jelle Van Damme, LA Galaxy	Mauro Díaz, Dallas Giovani dos Santos, LA Galaxy Sacha Kljestan, Red Bulls Ignacio Piatti, Montreal	Sebastian Giovinco, Toronto Bradley Wright-Phillips, Red Bulls David Villa, New York City

Player transfers

Main article: List of Major League Soccer transfers 2016

Allocation ranking

The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a player who is in the MLS allocation list. The MLS allocation list contains select U.S. National Team players and players transferred outside of MLS garnering a transfer fee of at least $500,000. The allocations will be ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2015 season, taking playoff performance into account.^[133]

Once the club uses its allocation ranking to acquire a player, it drops to the bottom of the list. A ranking can be traded provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club's ranking. At all times each club is assigned one ranking. The rankings reset at the end of each MLS season.

Original Ranking	Current Ranking	Club	Date Allocation Used (Rank on that date)	Player Signed	Previous Club	Ref
1	1	Chicago Fire[A][B]				[134][135]
4	2	New York City FC
5	3	Real Salt Lake
6	4	Houston Dynamo
7	5	Orlando City SC
8	6	San Jose Earthquakes
9	7	Toronto FC
10	8	New England Revolution
11	9	Sporting Kansas City
12	10	LA Galaxy
13	11	D.C. United
14	12	Montreal Impact
15	13	Seattle Sounders FC
16	14	Vancouver Whitecaps FC
17	15	FC Dallas
18	16	New York Red Bulls
19	17	Columbus Crew SC
20	18	Portland Timbers
2	19	Colorado Rapids[A]	March 20, 2016 (1)	Tim Howard	Everton	[134]
3	20	Philadelphia Union[B]	August 3, 2016 (1)	Alejandro Bedoya	Nantes	[135]

1. ^
   On January 14, 2016, Colorado Rapids acquired the number 1 allocation ranking (original ranking number 1), a first-round selection (15th overall) in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft, and a second-round selection (33rd overall) in the 2016 SuperDraft from Chicago Fire in exchange for the number 2 allocation ranking (original ranking number 2), a first-round selection (12th overall) in the 2016 SuperDraft, and a second-round selection (22nd overall) in the 2016 SuperDraft.
2. ^
   On August 3, 2016, Philadelphia Union acquired the number 1 allocation ranking (original ranking number 2) from Chicago Fire in exchange for the number 2 allocation ranking (original ranking number 3), a first-round selection in the 2017 MLS SuperDraft, and the Discovery Priority on a player to be named later.

Television

See also: MLS on television

United States

In the 2016 MLS season, 96 games aired in the United States on national television. English-language broadcasts once again included Soccer Sunday doubleheaders — 29 games on ESPN and 5 on ESPN2 (mainly on Sunday afternoons), 4 on Fox, and 30 on Fox Sports 1 (mainly on Sunday evenings). The 2016 season marked MLS's debut on the Fox network channel.^[136] Spanish-language broadcasts included 28 games on UniMás (mainly on Friday evenings).^[136]

U.S. TV viewership ('000)

Wkd	Date(s)	ESPN	FS1	UDN	Ref	Notes
1	March 6	362	267	148	[137]	The UDN match aired from 10:00 pm to 12:08 am, outside its usual window.
2	March 11–13	197	175	84	[138]
3	March 18–20	179	184	98	[139]	MLS matches went head-to-head against the NCAA basketball tournament.
4	March 25–27					No Games on TV (international window).
5	April 1–3		261	185		No Games on ESPN (MLB opening day).
6	April 8–10	386	183 270	192		Two Games on FS1, 183k NYCFC-CHI, 270k LAG-POR
7	April 15–17	229	138	109	[140][141]
8	April 22–24	180	176		[142]	No Games on Unimas.
9	April 29–May 1	302	199	51	[143][144]
10	May 6–8	225	199	93	[145]
	May 20–22	463	636* 210	190	[146]	*New York derby was broadcast on FOX instead of FS1.
	July 1–3	439	136		[147]
	July 8–10	223	171	84	[148]
	July 15–17	322	118		[149]
AVG	2016	262.1	205.8	120		2016 Average

Notes:

• All viewership numbers are in thousands.
• Average viewership for the previous 2015 season was 245,000 (ESPN2), 197,000 (FS1), and 244,000 (Univ).

Other countries

TSN, RDS and Sportsnet aired matches in Canada of primarily the three Canadian-based teams.

MLS aired on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom, Eurosport in Continental Europe, Abu Dhabi Media in the Middle East and North Africa, Letv Sports in China, beIN Sports in Asia-Pacific, ESPN and Fox Sports in Latin America, SporTV in Brazil and Fox Sports in Africa.

2016 attendances

The following is a list of the average attendance for each of the twenty MLS teams at their regular-season games. It includes the team, the average attendance for the 2016 regular season and the 2015 regular season, the percentage change in attendance from season-to-season, the home venue, the home venue's capacity, and the percent of capacity.^[150]

Team	2016 Attendance	2015 Attendance	Change	Stadium	Capacity (Unrestricted)	Percent (2016)
Seattle Sounders FC	42,636	44,247	-4%	CenturyLink Field	39,115 (69,000)	109% (62%)
Orlando City SC	31,324	32,847	-5%	Camping World Stadium	19,500 (65,000)	161% (48%)
New York City FC	27,196	29,016	-6%	Yankee Stadium	27,470 (49,638)	99% (55%)
Toronto FC	26,583	23,451	+13%	BMO Field	30,226	88%
LA Galaxy	25,138	23,392	+7%	StubHub Center	27,167	93%
Vancouver Whitecaps FC	22,330	20,507	+9%	BC Place	22,120 (54,500)	101% (41%)
Portland Timbers	21,144	21,144	0%	Providence Park	21,144	100%
Montreal Impact	20,669	17,750	+16%	Saputo Stadium	20,801	99%
New York Red Bulls	20,620	19,657	+5%	Red Bull Arena	25,219	82%
New England Revolution	20,185	19,627	+3%	Gillette Stadium	20,000 (66,829)	101% (30%)
San Jose Earthquakes	19,930	20,979	-5%	Avaya Stadium	18,000	111%
Real Salt Lake	19,759	20,160	-2%	Rio Tinto Stadium	20,213	98%
Sporting Kansas City	19,597	19,687	-0.5%	Children's Mercy Park	18,467	106%
Houston Dynamo	19,021	20,658	-8%	BBVA Compass Stadium	22,039	86%
Philadelphia Union	17,519	17,451	0%	PPL Park	18,500	95%
Columbus Crew SC	17,125	16,513	+4%	Mapfre Stadium	20,145	85%
D.C. United	17,081	16,244	+5%	RFK Stadium	20,000 (45,596)	85% (37%)
Colorado Rapids	16,278	15,657	+4%	Dick's Sporting Goods Park	18,061	90%
Chicago Fire	15,602	16,003	-3%	Toyota Park	20,000	78%
FC Dallas	14,094	16,015	-12%	Toyota Stadium	20,500	67%

Note: Vancouver's and Seattle's attendances are both over 100% capacity because, for select games, they open up additional sections above the regular limited capacity. Orlando's and New England's attendances are over 100% because their capacities are artificial; both teams regularly sell more tickets than the limit. San Jose's attendance is over 100% capacity because they played one game at Levi's Stadium (68,000 capacity).

Coaches

Eastern Conference

• Chicago Fire: Veljko Paunović
• Columbus Crew SC: Gregg Berhalter
• D.C. United: Ben Olsen
• Montreal Impact: Mauro Biello
• New England Revolution: Jay Heaps
• New York City FC: Patrick Vieira
• New York Red Bulls: Jesse Marsch
• Orlando City SC: Jason Kreis
• Philadelphia Union: Jim Curtin
• Toronto FC: Greg Vanney

Western Conference

• Colorado Rapids: Pablo Mastroeni
• FC Dallas: Óscar Pareja
• Houston Dynamo: Owen Coyle, Wade Barrett and Wílmer Cabrera
• Los Angeles Galaxy: Bruce Arena
• Portland Timbers: Caleb Porter
• Real Salt Lake: Jeff Cassar
• San Jose Earthquakes: Dominic Kinnear
• Seattle Sounders FC: Sigi Schmid and Brian Schmetzer
• Sporting Kansas City: Peter Vermes
• Vancouver Whitecaps FC: Carl Robinson

See also

• List of Major League Soccer transfers 2016
• 2016 MLS Cup Playoffs