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Jon ArnoldJun 16, 2025, 08:53 AM ET
The 2025 MLS play is firmly underway, which means it's clip for ESPN's Power Rankings.
Who's climbing the table, and who's successful escaped fall? Our writers studied the enactment from crossed Matchday 18 to travel up with this week's bid of each 30 teams successful the league. Let's dive in.
1. Vancouver Whitecaps
Previous ranking: 1
The Whitecaps fell 2-1 to the Columbus Crew connected the road, conceding 2 goals aboriginal and struggling to get backmost successful the contest. The Caps had earned a triumph with respective cardinal absences aft its dense Concacaf Champions Cup decision past week, but this week saw them travel backmost to earth. Still, it's conscionable their 2nd nonaccomplishment successful league play this year.
2. Philadelphia Union
Previous ranking: 2
Bradley Carnell's clump keeps getting it done arsenic the Union earned a 2-1 triumph against Charlotte FC. Substitute Markus Anderson scored heavy successful stoppage-time to interruption the deadlock, which is adjacent much awesome erstwhile you recognize that planetary absences mean the Union not lone are missing their halfway of U.S. players, but besides starting goalkeeper Andre Blake, Jamaica's No. 1.
3. Minnesota United
Previous ranking: 3
Things were going to program with Minnesota United doubly taking the lead, but the Loons fell 4-2 astatine location to San Diego FC. It snaps a five-match undefeated tally crossed each competitions, though it's conscionable the 2nd decision Minnesota has suffered since May 1.
4. Inter Miami CF
Previous ranking: 4
After scoring 5 goals successful a beardown league show to nonstop them off, Inter Miami couldn't bushed Al Ahly goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy successful the opening lucifer of the Club World Cup. Porto and Palmeiras are up next.
5. Nashville SC
Previous ranking: 5
Nashville topped the Chicago Fire 2-0 connected the road, earning a triumph acknowledgment to goals from Hany Mukhtar and Sam Surridge. That duo is becoming 1 manager BJ Callaghan tin trust connected on with Andy Najar: the Honduras planetary is missing the Gold Cup to assistance the Boys successful Gold, which helium did with an assistance Saturday.
6. Columbus Crew
Previous ranking: 6
After a frustrating 5-1 nonaccomplishment to Inter Miami past clip out, the Crew were capable to find a beardown bounce-back win, beating the league-leading Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1. Ibrahim Aliyu scored aboriginal and Diego Rossi added a 2nd successful the 23rd minute, but much importantly it looked similar Wilfried Nancy's preferred benignant of shot for the afloat 90 minutes.
7. Seattle Sounders
Previous ranking: 7
The Sounders are retired of league enactment for respective weeks, enjoying the perk of their historical 2022 Concacaf Champions Cup triumph and taking portion successful the Club World Cup. Reigning Copa Libertadores champions Botafogo, Atlético Madrid and existent UEFA Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain await.
8. San Diego FC
Previous ranking: 8
After conceding early, it looked similar San Diego FC mightiness beryllium different squad that falls into Minnesota United's trap, but winger Anders Dreyer wasn't going to fto that happen. Just moments aft the opener, helium answered with a extremity from the halfway circle. SDFC stuck to its ain benignant and the Danish MVP campaigner scored different from the spot, adjacent assisting 1 of teammate Milan Iloski's 2 goals arsenic well.
9. Orlando City
Previous ranking: 9
Sometimes it's astir uncovering a mode to triumph nary substance the circumstances, and Orlando City did that with a 1-0 triumph against the Colorado Rapids. The extremity came connected 1 of 5 shots connected people successful the full match, though Opta information qualified nary of them arsenic a large chance.
10. LAFC
Previous ranking: 10
After earning a spot successful the Club World Cup acknowledgment to a triumph implicit Club América successful the playoff, LAFC rapidly started to hole for the tournament. They unfastened Monday against Chelsea earlier gathering Tunisian elephantine Esperance de Tunis and Brazilian powerfulness Flamengo.
11. FC Cincinnati
Previous ranking: 11
Kevin Denkey's right-footer gave Cincy a 1-0 triumph connected the roadworthy against the New England Revolution connected Saturday. It's his 11th extremity of the season, bully for 3rd successful the league astatine this signifier and conscionable 2 down person Tai Baribo.
12. Portland Timbers
Previous ranking: 12
The Timbers drew 1-1 with the San Jose Earthquakes astatine Providence Park, a good effect against a league rival connected its face. But the information that the Quakes were down to 10 men and conceded aft the 90th infinitesimal volition dim immoderate enthusiasm the location squad felt astatine earning a point.
13. Charlotte FC
Previous ranking: 13
Wilfried Zaha got connected the scoresheet again, but Charlotte FC couldn't gain immoderate points, falling 2-1 to the Philadelphia Union connected Saturday. Consistency continues to elude manager Dean Smith: Charlotte past won 2 successful a enactment connected April 12 and April 19.
14. San Jose Earthquakes
Previous ranking: 14
San Jose was capable to claw a gully retired of a pugnacious situation, leaving Portland aft a 1-1 gully with the Timbers. Even with Ian Harkes sent disconnected for his 2nd yellowish earlier the hr people and having little of the ball, the Quakes created much unsafe chances than the Timbers.
15. New York Red Bulls
Previous ranking: 15
Despite a bully tally of signifier for the Red Bulls, triumph successful Texas turned retired to beryllium excessively overmuch to ask, with a 2-1 decision to Austin FC snapping a four-match winning streak crossed each competitions. They beryllium conscionable 2 points supra the playoff line, but successful the jam-packed East besides conscionable six points from second.
16. New York City FC
Previous ranking: 18
Hannes Wolf continues to beryllium a extremity machine, capping disconnected a flurry of goals successful the 2nd fractional of a 4-0 triumph implicit Atlanta United with a double. The Austrian's 8 goals necktie him with guardant Alonso Martinez -- who missed this crippled with Costa Rica astatine the Gold Cup -- for the squad lead.
17. Chicago Fire
Previous ranking: 16
At slightest it went amended this time. The Chicago Fire fell 2-0 to Nashville SC astatine home, but aft Nashville's 7-2 triumph successful their erstwhile meeting, it's a scoreline that looks respectable -- particularly erstwhile seeing the Fire enactment 7 shots connected people Saturday against a Nashville squad that was much effectual with 2 goals connected 3 shots connected target.
18. Austin FC
Previous ranking: 19
Brandon Vazquez atoned for an earlier ain extremity with the victor for Austin FC successful a 2-1 triumph implicit the New York Red Bulls astatine Q2 Stadium. It's the 2nd triumph a enactment up of the league-wide Gold Cup layoff, with the perchance exhausted Seattle Sounders adjacent connected the schedule.
19. New England Revolution
Previous ranking: 17
The Revs had power of play, but couldn't situation FC Cincinnati with unsafe chances and fell 1-0 astatine Gillette Stadium this weekend. It snaps a three-match unbeaten tally the squad enactment together. Next up, they enactment astatine location to conscionable Nashville.
20. FC Dallas
Previous ranking: 23
After trading goals early, FC Dallas took vantage of Sporting KC defender Khiry Shelton getting his marching orders successful a 4-2 roadworthy triumph for the Texas team. Lucho Acosta scored erstwhile from the spot and again precocious connected a breakaway caused by a antiaircraft breakdown. FCD volition beryllium hoping they support getting these types of performances from the erstwhile MVP.
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21. Colorado Rapids
Previous ranking: 20
The Rapids had the shot and tried to marque it count, but Orlando City denied them immoderate genuinely unsafe chances successful a 1-0 loss. That makes 3 defeats successful a enactment for the Rapids, with 1 extremity scored successful that stretch.
22. Houston Dynamo
Previous ranking: 21
The Dynamo had much of the shot and much shots but mislaid wherever it mattered successful a 3-1 location decision to CF Montreal. With Jack McGlynn connected U.S. duty, Ondrej Lingr turned creator arsenic good arsenic finisher. While helium scored the one, helium needed much enactment successful attack.
23. D.C. United
Previous ranking: 24
D.C. went connected the roadworthy and fell 2-0 to Real Salt Lake. After a 7-1 location nonaccomplishment past week, it could beryllium seen arsenic a positive? A pugnacious look successful a lucifer successful which DCU enactment 1 changeable connected target.
24. Atlanta United
Previous ranking: 22
A Thursday nighttime travel to the Bronx wasn't what Atlanta United needed, falling 4-0 to New York City FC. It each went incorrect successful conscionable a fewer minutes, too, with the Five Stripes conceding 3 goals betwixt infinitesimal 55 and infinitesimal 59 -- 2 of them to Hannes Wolf.
25. Real Salt Lake
Previous ranking: 25
No Luna, nary problem? RSL was capable to get a 2-0 triumph implicit D.C. United contempt apical attacker Diego Luna being connected planetary work with the United States. Johnny Russell scored successful the archetypal half, Zavier Gozo successful the 2nd and Rafael Cabral kept the cleanable expanse for a triumph that snapped a seven-match winless streak.
26. Sporting Kansas City
Previous ranking: 26
Despite an aboriginal goal, Sporting KC fell to FC Dallas 4-2 astatine location successful a crippled marred by a penalty, a reddish paper and SKC's antiaircraft errors. The "new-coach bounce" whitethorn not person afloat arrived -- though Santi Muñoz's 2nd extremity successful 5 MLS matches is simply a boost for morale.
27. Toronto FC
Previous ranking: 27
After a May 31 decision to Charlotte FC, TFC doesn't instrumentality to enactment until a June 25 contention against the New York Red Bulls, with astir fans taking the clip to basal connected Canada successful the Gold Cup.
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Marco Reus' stellar back-heel walk sets up the Galaxy equalizer
Marco Reus makes a superb back-heel walk to Matheus Nascimento for the goal, pulling the Galaxy level astatine two.
28. St. Louis City SC
Previous ranking: 28
A chapeau instrumentality from Joao Klauss assured St. Louis City got retired of Saturday's matinee with the LA Galaxy with a constituent successful a 3-3 draw. All 3 goals from the Brazilian were assisted by antithetic players, and interim brag David Critchley volition anticipation it shows a squad getting connected the aforesaid page.
29. CF Montréal
Previous ranking: 29
When a squad is struggling, you conscionable ne'er cognize erstwhile that triumph is going to come. For CF Montreal, it came Saturday with a 3-1 triumph successful a pugnacious roadworthy spot against the Houston Dynamo. For a squad that has scored conscionable 15 goals this season, getting 3 -- 2 from Prince Owusu and 1 from defender Jalen Neal -- volition consciousness similar progress.
30. LA Galaxy
Previous ranking: 30
The Galaxy showed a batch of bosom successful a 3-3 gully with St. Louis City. They fell down doubly and each clip battled back. Not keeping a pb the Galaxy took precocious acknowledgment to a 2nd Gabriel Pec extremity successful the 87th infinitesimal volition sting, but 2 consecutive matches without a nonaccomplishment counts arsenic progress.
