MLS announced details surrounding the much-mooted new reserve league on Monday. Dubbed the MLS Next Pro, the new league will launch next year, featuring 20 MLS reserve teams and one independent team, Rochester NY FC, formerly known as the Rochester Rhinos, off a multi-year hiatus.
For our purposes, LA Galaxy will not field a team in the league next year, but the release on MLS Next Pro does say that the Galaxy will field a team in the new circuit starting in 2023. Presumably, that means LA Galaxy II will move from the USL Championship, where they’ve been since 2014, although nothing has definitively indicated that’s the case just yet.