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 automated 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 yr, 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 yr’s Leagues Cup, was awarded Greatest Participant and High Scorer with a tournament-best 10 targets.
“I’m actually trying ahead to the kickoff of Leagues Cup,” stated Columbus Crew’s Cucho Hernández. “It’s at all times going to be thrilling successful titles with this membership — we’re in a really optimistic dynamic as a bunch, need to obtain issues, and can give it our all in each sport. It would even be thrilling for followers who can take pleasure in watching groups from farther away that they might not have been capable of 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,” stated LAFC’s Denis Bouanga. “The event is a good alternative to win a trophy, and we’re at all times making an attempt to win extra trophies at LAFC.”
“For me, it’s all about competitors — that’s nonnegotiable,” stated 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 phenomenal event,” stated CF Monterrey’s Germán Berterame. “I’m trying ahead to the matches and hope that this time will likely be in favor of LMX!”
How you can Watch on MLS Season Move
MLS Season Move will characteristic each dwell Leagues Cup match multi function place, with no blackouts. Matches will likely be obtainable in English, Spanish, or French the place obtainable. 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 without delay with Multiview on Apple TV 4K units and on iPad, in order that they by no means must miss a minute of the motion.1 And with the brand new Catch Up characteristic, 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 routinely chosen — together with targets, penalty kicks, crimson playing cards, and sure photographs and saves. As soon as every key play ends, customers are routinely taken to the subsequent play and may seamlessly skip between performs at any time.
MLS Season Move is offered by way of the Apple TV app on Apple units, sensible TVs, streaming units, set-top packing containers, and sport consoles, in addition to on the internet 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 area; inside an Setting, so the display feels 100 ft huge; 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 option to keep up to the mark on the groups and leagues they love. Customers can simply navigate between scores and upcoming video games; discover play-by-play info, staff 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 fun 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 offered to all Apple Music listeners inside the MLS Season Move devoted area. 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 world skilled soccer, and high-profile company. The weekly present is offered 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 characteristic 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 sensible TVs, streaming units, set-top packing containers, and sport consoles.
- Apple Sports activities is free to obtain, and is offered for all iPhone fashions operating iOS 17.2 or later.
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