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January 18 – March 1: MLS Preseason

• Jan 29 – Feb 8:
The Desert Friendlies (Tucson) — COL, HOU, NE, POR, SJ, SEA, SKC, FC Tucson

• Feb 9 – Feb 23:
Disney Pro Soccer Classic (Orlando) — CLB, DC, MTL, PHI, SKC, TOR, Orlando City, Tampa Bay

• Feb 13 – Feb 23:
Desert Diamond Cup (Tucson) — NE, NY, RSL, SEA

• Feb 16 – Feb 23:
Carolina Challenge Cup — CHI, HOU, VAN, Charleston

• Feb 17 – Feb 23:
Portland Timbers Tournament — DAL, POR, SJ, AIK

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NEW YORK – Major League Soccer announced its 2013 schedule on Wednesday, with a brand new wrinkle for a brand new year: Rivalry Week.

Eight of the nine matches in Week 3 of the 35-week season will pit regional rivals against one another, with the NBC Sports Group on board to air three live matches that weekend showcasing some of the league’s premier rivalries.

Among Rivalry Week’s matches are the first 2013 matchup between the Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers in Seattle, and a date at Red Bull Arena for the New York Red Bulls and D.C. United, who met there in the Eastern Conference semfinals last year. The weekend will also feature an installment of the Rocky Mountain Cup between host Real Salt Lake and the Colorado Rapids, an all-Canadian clash in Montreal between the host Impact and Toronto FC, and the only matchup of the year between Texas foes FC Dallas and the Houston Dynamo.


FULL 2013 MLS SCHEDULE: http://www.mlssoccer.com/schedule?mo..._schedule_form

Each of the League’s 19 clubs will play 34 matches, 17 at home and 17 away, over 35 weeks during the 2013 season, which officially kicks off on March 2, the earliest start date in league history. Within each conference, each club will play the same number of in-conference and out-of-conference games, following the same competition format as 2012, with inter-conference matches switching venues.

FULL NATIONAL TELEVISION SCHEDULE: http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/articl...es-us-networks

All non-national TV games will be broadcast locally and/or via subscription to Direct Kick and MLS Live, the digital streaming package for MLSsoccer.com, mobile devices and tablets.

The 2013 regular season concludes Sunday, Oct. 27, with five games, followed by the MLS Cup Playoffs. Only two clubs will reach MLS Cup 2013, and the one with a better regular-season record will host the championship game on Dec. 7 or 8, with details to be announced at a later date

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MLS announces 30-game TV schedule for TSN/RDS in Canada


NEW YORK — The three-way battle for Canada between the Montreal Impact, Toronto FC, and the Vancouver Whitecaps will begin and end on national television.

Major League Soccer announced the 2013 schedule for the TSN and RDS networks in Canada, a season-long package that includes 30 games, all featuring Montreal, Toronto, or Vancouver, as well as the 2013 MLS All-Star Game on July 31. The schedule will open with Vancouver-Toronto on March 2 on TSN and RDS2, and finish with Toronto-Montreal on October 26 on TSN and RDS.

The four Canadian networks, TSN, TSN2, RDS and RDS2, will also broadcast the MLS All-Star Game on July 31, and select matches featuring US-based teams that the league says it will announce in the coming weeks.

All MLS games on the TSN and RDS networks can also be seen live on TSN Mobile TV and Télé Mobile RDS in Canada.


http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/articl...-tsnrds-canada

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Univision Deportes adds 23 MLS games to broadcast schedule


Univision is giving fans what they want: more soccer.

The broadcast company annouced Wednesday that it will broadcast an additional 23 MLS regular-season matches on its new sports network, Univision Deportes Network (UDN). The MLS games on UDN will begin Saturday at 6 pm ET, when the Colorado Rapids host the Philadelphia Union in their 2013 season opener at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.

UDN's schedule comes in addition to sister network UniMás' broadcast of 26 MLS regular-season games, for a total of 49 nationally televised MLS games on the Univision family of networks.

To view Univision Deportes Network's broadcast lineup, check out the schedule here.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/schedule?mo..._schedule_form