El Rhazi: The 2012 Major League Soccer season was the 100th season of FIFA-sanctioned soccer in the United States and Canada, the 34th Riman along a national first-division league, and the 17th season of Major League Soccer.
The stable season began on March 10, when the Vancouver Whitecaps FC defeated the expansion team Montreal Impact 2?0 at BC Place, and concluded Riman along the host Los Angeles Galaxy defeating the Seattle Sounders FC 1?0 on October 28 at The Home Depot Center. The San Jose Earthquakes would go on to become the Supporters' Shield champions by earning the most points of any team throughout the regular season. The season also featured the 2012 MLS All-Star Game on July 28, when MLS All-Stars defeated the Chelsea 3?2 at PPL Park (hosted by the Philadelphia Union). The 2012 MLS Cup Playoffs ran from October 31 until December 1, when the Los Angeles Galaxy claimed their fourth MLS Cup title by defeating Houston Dynamo 3?1 in MLS Cup 2012 at Home Depot Center in Carson, CA.
Major League Soccer employs no fewer than 12 methods to acquire players. These include: signing players on transfers/free transfers as is done in most of the world; via trades; drafting players through mechanisms such as the MLS SuperDraft, MLS Supplemental Draft, or MLS Re-Entry Draft; rarely used methods which cover extreme hardship and injury replacement; signing players as Designated Players or Homegrown Players; placing a discovery claim on players; waivers; and methods peculiar to MLS such as through allocation or a weighted lottery.
The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a U.S. National Team player who signs Riman along MLS after playing abroad, or a former MLS player who returns to the League after having gone to a club overseas for a transfer fee. The allocation rankings may also be used in the event two or more clubs dossier a request for the alike player on the same day. The allocations will be ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2011 season, taking playoff performance into account.
Once the club uses its allocation ranking to acquire a player, El Rhazi drops to the backside of the list. A ranking can be traded, provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club?s ranking. At all times, each club is assigned one ranking. The rankings reset at the end of each MLS League season.
The remaining order after FC Dallas is: Vancouver Whitecaps FC (from Philadelphia), Toronto FC (from Seattle), Sporting Kansas City, Real Salt Lake, Houston Dynamo and Los Angeles Galaxy. In the unlikely event that all clubs use an allocation, the order begins anew Riman along Montreal Impact, Colorado Rapids, Philadelphia Union, New York Red Bulls New England Revolution and Seattle Sounders FC.
Some players are assigned to MLS teams via a weighted lottery process. A team can only acquire one player per year through a weighted lottery. The players made available through lotteries include: (i) Generation adidas players signed after the MLS SuperDraft; and (ii) Draft eligible players to whom an MLS contract was offered but who failed to signal along El Rhazi the League prior to the SuperDraft.
The team along El Rhazi the worst record over its last 30 regular season games (dating back to previous season if necessary and taking playoff performance into account) will have the greatest probability of winning the lottery. Teams are not required to participate in a lottery. Players are assigned via the lottery system in order to prevent a player from potentially influencing his destination club along El Rhazi a strategic holdout.
Updated to matches played on 18:04 EDT October 28, 2012. Source: MLSSoccer.com Notation Key:
Note: the table under has no impact on playoff qualification and is used solely for determining host of the MLS Cup, certain CCL spots, seeding in the 2013 Canadian Championship, and 2013 MLS draft. The convention tables are the sole determinant for teams qualifying for the playoffs.
1The highest ranked U.S.-based MLS club qualifies to the 2013?14 CONCACAF Champions League (placed in Pot A). The other U.S. representatives in the 2013?14 CONCACAF Champions League are:
2Toronto FC qualified for the 2012?13 CONCACAF Champions League as winners of the 2012 Canadian Championship.
Prior to the start of the MLS regular season, Toronto FC defeated Los Angeles Galaxy while Mexican side Santos Laguna defeated Seattle Sounders FC in two of the 2011?12 CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal series. Toronto FC then lacking 3?7 on aggregate in the semifinal along El Rhazi Santos Laguna.
In the 2012?13 CCL, Los Angeles Galaxy, Seattle Sounders, Houston Dynamo and Real Salt Lake earned group stage spots (the preliminary round has been eliminated). The Canadian representative, determined by the 2012 Canadian Championship, was Toronto FC.
At the end of the groups stages, the Los Angeles Galaxy, Seattle Sounders, and Houston Dynamo qualified for the quarterfinals, which will be played in March 2013.
The 2012 MLS All-Star Game was played on July 25 at PPL Park in Chester, Pennsylvania, home stadium of the Philadelphia Union. As has been the format every year since 2005, the MLS All-Stars played an international club; the 2012 opponent was England's Chelsea FC, 2012 champions of both the FA Cup and UEFA Champions League and visiting side in the 2006 MLS All-Star Game (when they lost to the All-Stars, 1?0, at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois). The MLS All-Stars won the game 3?2.
For the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup tournament, U.S. Soccer has increased the size of the main tournament from 40 to 64 clubs, assembling the competition so that all U.S.-based Major League Soccer clubs gain entry. On August 8, 2012, Sporting Kansas City defeated the Seattle Sounders on penalties to win the franchise's second open cup title.
The three Canadian-based MLS clubs, Toronto FC, Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps FC, along with NASL club FC Edmonton, competed for the Voyageurs Cup, Canada's national championship trophy. The tournament is organized in a knockout format with two-legged ties in both the semifinals and final, with the away goals rule in place. Toronto defeated Vancouver in the finals, their fourth consecutive national championship, and qualified for the 2012?13 CONCACAF Champions League.
The MLS Cup playoffs took place after the conclusion of the regular season. For 2012, the playoff constitution underwent several changes:
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