Major League Soccer 2009

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Major League Soccer 2009
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master Real Salt Lake
Cup winners Seattle Sounders
Teams 16
Games 225
Gates 570  (ø 2.53 per game)
spectator 3,609,048  (ø 16,037 per game)
Top scorer Jeff Cunningham , 18 goals
← Major League Soccer 2008

The 14th Major League Soccer season begins with the Regular Season on March 19, 2009 and ended with the MLS Cup 2009 on November 22, 2009 at Qwest Field in Seattle . All results since the founding of the MLS can be found in the MLS's eternal table .

Real Salt Lake defeated the LA Galaxy 5-4 on penalties in the 2009 MLS Cup after the teams split 1-1 at the end of regular time. In the overall table at the end of the season, RSL reached eighth of fifteen places.

Innovations

  • The Seattle Sounders started playing as the 15th team in the Major League Soccer (Western Conference).
  • The two best teams from each conference and the four best-scoring teams from all other teams qualify for the playoffs. So far, the three best teams in each conference have been qualified.
  • Microsoft is promoting the Seattle Sounders with Xbox 360 Live .
  • The MLS Reserve Division was dissolved. The second teams of the MLS clubs played in it. Thus, the limits for the maximum number of players in a squad have been raised from 18 to 20. At the same time, the number of players in the developmental roster was reduced from 10 to 4. Thus, the total number of players that a club is allowed to have drops from 28 to 24 players.
  • Change of coach:
Sigi Schmid leaves the Columbus crew and becomes the new trainer of the Seattle Sounders.
Robert Warzycha is the new trainer of the Columbus Crew . He was previously the club's assistant coach.
Juan Carlos Osorio will leave the New York Red Bulls in late August.
He is followed by Richie Williams as interim coach, who was previously the team's assistant coach.

Season course

Regular season

Conference table

In addition to the two best teams in each conference, four teams with the next highest number of points qualify for the playoffs.

society Pt Games S. N U T + T- T
Eastern Conference
1 Columbus crew 49 30th 13 7th 10 41 31 +10
2 Chicago Fire 45 30th 11 7th 12 39 34 +5
3 New England Revolution 42 30th 11 10 9 33 37 −4
4th DC United 40 30th 9 8th 13 43 44 −1
5 Toronto FC 1 39 30th 10 11 9 37 46 −9
6th Kansas City Wizards 33 30th 8th 14th 9 33 42 −9
7th New York Red Bulls 21st 30th 5 19th 6th 27 47 −20
Western Conference
1 LA Galaxy 48 30th 12 6th 12 36 31 +5
2 Houston Dynamo 48 30th 13 8th 9 39 29 +10
3 Seattle Sounders 47 30th 12 7th 11 38 29 +9
4th CD Chivas USA 45 30th 13 11 6th 34 31 +3
5 Real Salt Lake 40 30th 11 12 7th 43 35 +7
6th Colorado Rapids 40 30th 10 10 10 42 38 +4
7th FC Dallas 39 30th 11 13 6th 50 46 +4
8th San Jose Earthquakes 30th 30th 7th 14th 9 36 50 −14
MLS Cup Playoffs 2009
MLS Cup Playoffs 2009 (Wildcard)
MLS Cup Playoffs 2009
MLS Cup Playoffs 2009 (Wildcard)

Status: October 28, 2009, source: web.mlsnet.com

Overall table

society Points Games S. N U T + T- TD
1 Columbus Crew (E1) 49 30th 13 7th 10 41 31 +10
2 LA Galaxy (W1) 48 30th 12 6th 12 36 31 +5
3 Houston Dynamo (W2) 48 30th 13 8th 9 39 29 +10
4th Seattle Sounders 47 30th 12 7th 11 38 29 +9
5 Chicago Fire (E2) 45 30th 11 7th 12 39 34 +5
6th CD Chivas USA 45 30th 13 11 6th 34 31 +3
7th New England Revolution 42 30th 11 10 9 33 37 −4
8th Real Salt Lake 40 30th 11 12 7th 43 35 +8
9 Colorado Rapids 40 30th 10 10 10 42 38 +4
10 DC United 40 30th 9 8th 13 43 44 −1
11 FC Dallas 39 30th 11 13 6th 50 46 +4
12 Toronto FC 1 39 30th 10 11 9 37 46 −9
13 Kansas City Wizards 33 30th 8th 13 9 33 42 −9
14th San Jose Earthquakes 30th 30th 7th 14th 9 36 50 −14
15th New York Red Bulls 21st 30th 5 19th 6th 27 47 −20
MLS Supporters' Shield , MLS Cup Playoffs 2009, US Open Cup 2010, CONCACAF Champions League 2010/11
MLS Cup Playoffs 2009, US Open Cup 2010
MLS Cup Playoffs 2009

1 Toronto FC cannot qualify for the US Open Cup as the club is from Canada. If the team concludes the season on a qualifying place for the US Open Cup, this starting place is automatically assigned to the next higher team. The same applies to a qualification place for the CONCACAF Champions League . Toronto FC can only qualify for this competition through the Canadian Championship . Also here qualifies, should Toronto get a qualifying place, the next higher team.

Playoffs

  Conference semifinals Conference finals MLS Cup 2009
                               
  E1  Columbus crew 0 2            
E4  Real Salt Lake 1 3  
E4  Real Salt Lake n.E. 5
Eastern Conference
  E2  Chicago Fire 4th  
E2  Chicago Fire 1 2
E3  New England Revolution 2 0  
E.  Real Salt Lake n.E. 5
  W.  LA Galaxy 4th
W1  LA Galaxy 2 1
 
W4  CD Chivas USA 2 0  
W1  LA Galaxy n.V. 2
Western Conference
  W2  Houston Dynamo 0  
W2  Houston Dynamo n.V. 0 1
  W3  Seattle Sounders 0 0  

Budweiser Golden Boot

The Budweiser Golden Boot is awarded to the best goalscorer of the regular season.

space Surname society G
1 United StatesUnited States Jeff Cunningham FC Dallas 17th
2 United StatesUnited States Conor Casey Colorado Rapids 16
3 ColombiaColombia Fredy Montero Seattle Sounders 12
4th United StatesUnited States Landon Donovan LA Galaxy 12
5 United StatesUnited States Robbie Findley Real Salt Lake 12
6th ArgentinaArgentina Guillermo Schelotto Columbus crew 12
7th ColombiaColombia Juan Pablo Angel New York Red Bulls 12
8th CanadaCanada Dwayne De Rosario Toronto FC 11
9 JamaicaJamaica Ryan Johnson San Jose Earthquakes 11
10 United StatesUnited States Josh Wolff Kansas City Wizards 11

Status: October 24, 2009.

MLS All-Star Game

The 14th MLS All-Star Game took place on July 29th at the Rio Tinto Stadium in Sandy . Opponent was Everton from the English Premier League .

Everton won 4-3 on penalties. After regular playing time it was 1: 1. No extra time was played. Everton FC goalkeeper Tim Howard has been named Player of the Game.

The goal for the MLS All-Star team was scored by Brad Davis of Houston Dynamo . Louis Saha scored the goal for Everton FC.

National Cup

For the third round of the cup, the three best teams from the two conferences of the previous season automatically qualify. The other teams from Major League Soccer play against each other in a qualifying tournament beforehand in order to play off the remaining two places.

Each qualified MLS team plays against a winner from the second round of the cup. Possible opponents come from the lower USL leagues.

Chicago Fire
CD Chivas USA
Columbus crew
DC United
Houston Dynamo
Kansas City Wizards
New England Revolution
Seattle Sounders

The winner of the tournament was the Seattle Sounders with a victory over DC United.

Toronto FC will be the only Canadian representative of the MLS to take part in this tournament.
Winner: Toronto FC

International competitions

Columbus crew
Red Bull New York - Preliminary Round (Qualifying Round)
DC United - Group Stage
Houston Dynamo - Group Stage
Toronto FC - Preliminary Round (Qualifying Round)
Chicago Fire - Final
New England Revolution - Semi-Finals
CD Chivas USA - preliminary round
Kansas City Wizards - Preliminary Round

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RSL tops Galaxy in PKs for MLS Cup title ( Memento of the original from November 26th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed November 23, 2009 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.mlsnet.com
  2. ↑ Regular Season ( English ) web.mlsnet.com. Archived from the original on March 19, 2010. Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ MLS goalscorer list on mlsnet.com ( memento of the original from January 30th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / web.mlsnet.com