July 25, 2024
UPDATE
Leagues Cup returns to MLS Season Go on Apple TV on July 26
The World Cup-style event options all 47 golf equipment from Main League Soccer and Liga MX in a monthlong event throughout North America
Leagues Cup, the primary in-season membership event in North America throughout all males’s skilled sports activities, begins tomorrow, July 26, and MLS Season Go would be the solely place the place followers can watch each match.
The World Cup-style, monthlong event options all 47 golf equipment from Main League Soccer and Mexico’s Liga MX. All golf equipment pause their common seasons to take part within the event, which concludes with the highest three groups receiving computerized bids to the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup. Leagues Cup consists of 77 matches in stadiums throughout the U.S. and Canada, and followers in additional than 100 international locations and areas can get pleasure from all of the motion with an MLS Season Go subscription.
The upcoming event is the second in a historic 10-year partnership between Apple and Main League Soccer. Over 1.3 million followers attended Leagues Cup matches in its inaugural yr, 2023, when Inter Miami CF defeated Nashville SC to change into the first-ever Leagues Cup champions. Lionel Messi, who made his MLS debut for Inter Miami throughout final yr’s Leagues Cup, was awarded Greatest Participant and Prime Scorer with a tournament-best 10 targets.
“I’m actually wanting ahead to the kickoff of Leagues Cup,” mentioned Columbus Crew’s Cucho Hernández. “It’s all the time going to be thrilling successful titles with this membership — we’re in a really optimistic dynamic as a gaggle, wish to obtain issues, and can give it our all in each recreation. It is going to even be thrilling for followers who can get pleasure from watching groups from farther away that they might not have been in a position to see dwell.”
“Leagues Cup matchups are enjoyable and entertaining for each gamers and followers, and I’m excited to play in opposition to groups from Liga MX,” mentioned LAFC’s Denis Bouanga. “The event is a superb alternative to win a trophy, and we’re all the time attempting to win extra trophies at LAFC.”
“For me, it’s all about competitors — that’s nonnegotiable,” mentioned Tigres UANL’s André-Pierre Gignac. “It’s been nice to see the expansion of Leagues Cup, and I’m excited to compete.”
“It’s an honor to compete with MLS in Leagues Cup, which is a wonderful event,” mentioned CF Monterrey’s Germán Berterame. “I’m wanting ahead to the matches and hope that this time shall be in favor of LMX!”
The way to Watch on MLS Season Go
MLS Season Go will function each dwell Leagues Cup match multi functional place, with no blackouts. Matches shall be out there in English, Spanish, or French the place out there. Subscribers get unique on-demand content material and probably the most expansive and accessible programming lineup ever, together with Leagues Cup Countdown and Leagues Cup Wrap-Up in English, and Leagues Cup La Previa and Leagues Cup El Resumen in Spanish.
Followers can watch as much as 4 simultaneous matches directly with Multiview on Apple TV 4K gadgets and on iPad, so that they by no means must miss a minute of the motion.1 And with the brand new Catch Up function, viewers who tune in for a match after kickoff can watch all the important thing moments earlier than becoming a member of dwell, serving to them benefit from the match much more.2 As soon as Catch Up is chosen, followers are immersed in a sequence of key performs — which have been mechanically chosen — together with targets, penalty kicks, purple playing cards, and sure photographs and saves. As soon as every key play ends, customers are mechanically taken to the subsequent play and may seamlessly skip between performs at any time.
MLS Season Go is out there by the Apple TV app on Apple gadgets, sensible TVs, streaming gadgets, set-top packing containers, and recreation consoles, in addition to on the net at television.apple.com. Followers may entry MLS Season Go from the Apple TV app on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, the place they’ll watch video games alongside different apps of their bodily house; inside an Atmosphere, so the display feels 100 toes large; and in Spatial Audio for an much more immersive viewing expertise.
Apple Sports activities Retains Followers As much as Velocity
For a deeper have a look at Leagues Cup stats and standings, iPhone customers can observe the motion with Apple Sports activities, a free app for iPhone that offers sports activities followers a easy and quick approach to keep in control on the groups and leagues they love. Customers can simply navigate between scores and upcoming video games; discover play-by-play info, workforce stats, lineup particulars, and dwell betting odds; and faucet to go to the Apple TV app to look at dwell video games from Apple and linked streaming apps.3 Apple Sports activities additionally seamlessly syncs with favorites chosen inside the My Sports activities expertise, together with within the Apple TV app and Apple Information.
Extra Methods to Have a good time Leagues Cup
- Apple Music will introduce participant warmup playlists to have a good time choose matches all through Leagues Cup. The Leagues Cup anthem, “Nuestros Colores,” is out there to all Apple Music listeners inside the MLS Season Go devoted house. Choose MLS and Liga MX Membership playlists may also refresh with the most recent prime hits.
- The fan favourite Offside with Taylor Twellman on Apple Podcasts will launch devoted episodes unpacking main performs, information, and storylines of Leagues Cup. Hosted by MLS Season Go lead analyst Taylor Twellman, the podcast is the proper companion to all of the MLS motion and options athletes, coaches, and executives from world skilled soccer, and high-profile visitors. The weekly present is out there at no cost on Apple Podcasts.
- For much more on the most recent motion from across the league, followers can begin each week with Twellman’s Takes on MLS Season Go on Apple TV, YouTube, and TikTok.
- Multiview is supported on iPad (seventh era) or later.
- The brand new Catch Up function requires customers to replace to the most recent software program on Apple gadgets and replace the Apple TV app on all different gadgets, together with sensible TVs, streaming gadgets, set-top packing containers, and recreation consoles.
- Apple Sports activities is free to obtain, and is out there for all iPhone fashions working iOS 17.2 or later.
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