The MLS 2025 play-offs are underway, and these are the eight teams with an early lead.<\/b>
\nMLS (Major League Soccer) has completed the first match of round 1 of the play-offs. The football competition in the United States, unlike most football leagues in Europe, uses a system of play-offs in which the best teams in the regular season compete in a knockout tournament, like NBA: the top eight teams in the Western Conference and the top eight teams in the Eastern Conference play to find a Conference Champion, and then those two play the MLS Cup to decide the overall champion.
Currently, 16 teams are competing in the \u00ab\u00a0round one\u00a0\u00bb of play-offs, which consists in a series of best-of-three matches. The winner will move to Conference semifinals, and from then on, it will be a single match.
After each team has played their first round one match, this is how the MLS play-offs are looking:<\/p>\n

Philadelphia Union 2(4) – 2(2) Chicago Fire FC<\/p>\n

Charlotte FC 0 – 1 New York City FC<\/p>\n

Inter Miami 3 – 1 Nashville<\/p>\n

FC Cincinnati 1 – 0 Columbus Crew<\/p>\n

San Diego 2 – 1 Portland Timbers<\/p>\n

Minnesota United FC 0(3) – 0(2) Seattle Sounders FC<\/p>\n

Los Angeles FC 2 – 1 Austin FC<\/p>\n

Vancouver Whitecaps FC 3 – 0 FC Dallas<\/p>\n

Therefore, Philadelphia, New York, Inter Miami and Cincinnati in the East and San Diego, Minnesota, Los Angeles and Vancouver in the West are leading in the play-offs, and will qualify for conference semi-finals if they win their next match.
MLS play-offs (match 2) continue from Saturday November 2 to Tuesday November 4.<\/p>\n