July 25, 2024
UPDATE
Leagues Cup returns to MLS Season Move 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 Move 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 contains 77 matches in stadiums throughout the U.S. and Canada, and followers in additional than 100 international locations and areas can take pleasure in all of the motion with an MLS Season Move 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 12 months, 2023, when Inter Miami CF defeated Nashville SC to turn into the first-ever Leagues Cup champions. Lionel Messi, who made his MLS debut for Inter Miami throughout final 12 months’s Leagues Cup, was awarded Greatest Participant and Prime Scorer with a tournament-best 10 targets.
“I’m actually trying 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, need to obtain issues, and can give it our all in each recreation. It’s going to even be thrilling for followers who can take pleasure in watching groups from farther away that they could 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 towards groups from Liga MX,” mentioned LAFC’s Denis Bouanga. “The event is a good alternative to win a trophy, and we’re all the time making an attempt 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 good looking event,” mentioned CF Monterrey’s Germán Berterame. “I’m trying ahead to the matches and hope that this time might be in favor of LMX!”
The way to Watch on MLS Season Move
MLS Season Move will function each dwell Leagues Cup match multi function place, with no blackouts. Matches might be accessible in English, Spanish, or French the place accessible. Subscribers get unique on-demand content material and essentially 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 units and on iPad, in order that they by no means need to 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 robotically chosen — together with targets, penalty kicks, pink playing cards, and sure pictures and saves. As soon as every key play ends, customers are robotically taken to the following play and may seamlessly skip between performs at any time.
MLS Season Move is out there via the Apple TV app on Apple units, good TVs, streaming units, set-top packing containers, and recreation consoles, in addition to on the net at television.apple.com. Followers also can entry MLS Season Move 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 Setting, so the display screen feels 100 toes broad; and in Spatial Audio for an much more immersive viewing expertise.
Apple Sports activities Retains Followers As much as Pace
For a deeper take a look at Leagues Cup stats and standings, iPhone customers can observe the motion with Apple Sports activities, a free app for iPhone that provides sports activities followers a easy and quick approach to keep on top of things on the groups and leagues they love. Customers can simply navigate between scores and upcoming video games; discover play-by-play data, group 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 throughout the My Sports activities expertise, together with within the Apple TV app and Apple Information.
Extra Methods to Have fun Leagues Cup
- Apple Music will introduce participant warmup playlists to rejoice choose matches all through Leagues Cup. The Leagues Cup anthem, “Nuestros Colores,” is out there to all Apple Music listeners throughout the MLS Season Move devoted house. Choose MLS and Liga MX Membership playlists will even refresh with the most recent high 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 Move lead analyst Taylor Twellman, the podcast is the proper companion to all of the MLS motion and options athletes, coaches, and executives from international skilled soccer, and high-profile visitors. The weekly present is out there free of charge 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 Move 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 units and replace the Apple TV app on all different units, together with good TVs, streaming units, 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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