Groups in Las Vegas, Phoenix, and San Diego want a franchise.
Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber could soon add the missing logo to the league’s website. The missing logo is that of the Sacramento expansion franchise, which should begin in 2023. It seems that the league has realized that there isn’t a white knight willing to save the franchise after Ron Burkle, the company’s largest funder, pulled out his money and get support from the franchise. Officially, the offer isn’t dead, but vultures are flying around and one of them is ready to step in to fill that void elsewhere. The other location could be Las Vegas, a very small market with limited financial resources. Garber raves about Las Vegas. Milwaukee Bucks co-owner of the National Basketball Association, Wes Edens, is pursuing an expanding franchise. The league is also looking at Phoenix and San Diego as potential expansion franchise sites. Oakland Athletics’ potential move from Major League Baseball to Las Vegas will not affect the MLS expansion decision
In 2017 MLS owners decided to add four teams to their group. The expansion process was slow and encountered some obstacles, with the Sacramento group being the newest problem. The MLS has developed a plan to find four groups of owners that MLS expansion teams in the United States could own. The league received interest from 12 cities, presumably with owners who could pay the bill for a team. The hope was to have two expansion franchises by the end of 2017 and two more in 2018. The expansion process did not go as planned and only three cities Austin, Cincinnati and Nashville had what it takes to run Teams # 25, # 26 and # to get. 27. St. Louis and Sacramento received franchises # 28 and # 29. Charlotte was ranked # 30. Major League Soccer wants 30 teams, but finding # 30 was a problem.
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