There are few sports growing as fast in a specific location as football in North America. Rapidly catching up the big three — Baseball, basketball and football — it is estimated that soccer will rival the most followed sports in America and Canada.
While many soccer fans graduate to the Premier League and Bundesliga, higher-achieving European leagues that are the pinnacle of the club game, Major League Soccer still has played a major part in the explosive growth of the game. And it will continue to do.
A crucial aspect of the growth of MLS has been the expansion into new markets.