It’s finally happened. Major League Soccer has awarded a franchise to play in Charlotte, North Carolina making it the 30th team in Major League Soccer. According to Commissioner Don Garber, this will likely be the last franchise awarded, at least for the time being. Garber went on to tout the potential financial growth of the league, no doubt justifying a record transfer fee of $325 million. Yet the 28th and 29th teams to be awarded franchises in the past couple of months, St. Louis and Sacramento, paid just $200 million. Has the value of the MLS as a league risen by 35% in the past two months?
We Now Have 30 MLS Teams
