12 Facts About MLS Cup

MLS Cup is the annual championship game of Major League Soccer and the culmination of the MLS Cup Playoffs.

US -based team that wins the MLS Cup is awarded one of the country's four berths in the following season's CONCACAF Champions League.

Inaugural MLS Cup was held on October 20,1996, in which DC United defeated the LA Galaxy.

From 2001 through 2004, the MLS Cup finals saw a rising of the California Clasico when cross-state rivals L A Galaxy and the San Jose Earthquakes clashed together in the 2001 final.

The result prompted MLS Cup to create new wild-cards that were used starting in 2006, where only a certain number of clubs per conference could qualify, and the next best overall teams regardless of conference would qualify.

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The MLS Cup scudetto is worn by the winning team the season following the victory.

The 2012 final featured both the Galaxy and Dynamo again, making it the first since 2007 that an MLS Cup final was a rematch of the previous final.

Seattle Sounders FC faced Toronto FC in the 2016 MLS Cup, which was played at BMO Field in Toronto on the evening of December 10,2016.

MLS Cup Final was aired on English-language networks ABC from 1996 to 2008, and ESPN from 2009 to 2014.

The MLS Cup bounced around different networks in the first three seasons of the league's presence in Canada; what was then the bold network aired the 2007 Cup Final, with CBC airing the next year's Final and GolTV Canada airing the Final the year after that.

Finally, the MLS Cup final was held at the home field of the finalist with the highest point total during the regular season.

In cup history, the MLS Cup champions have been awarded with three different trophies.