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Jon ArnoldJul 7, 2025, 11:23 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 the play to bid each 30 teams successful the league. Let's dive in.
1. Nashville SC
Previous ranking: 3
Despite a reddish paper to Jonathan Pérez successful the 63rd minute, Nashville hung connected and got to stoppage clip astatine 0-0. Then, Hany Mukhtar drew a punishment kick, awarded aft a VAR review, and converted it to unafraid each 3 points with a 1-0 triumph implicit Philadelphia. NSC's past nonaccomplishment successful immoderate contention was April 19.
2. Vancouver Whitecaps
Previous ranking: 1
The Whitecaps are banged up, missing cardinal players similar Andrés Cubas, Ali Ahmed and Sam Adekugbe for assorted periods of time. It showed successful a 3-0 decision to the Galaxy connected July 4, a squad that antecedently had conscionable 1 triumph truthful acold this season.
3. Philadelphia Union
Previous ranking: 2
Union manager Bradley Carnell handed a commencement to 15-year-old Cavan Sullivan and his squad weathered the tempest against Nashville for astir the full contest. In stoppage time, however, the Union conceded a punishment to Hany Mukhtar and fell 1-0 for a 2nd decision successful arsenic galore matches.
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Montreal Impact vs. Inter Miami CF - Game Highlights
Watch the Game Highlights from Montreal Impact vs. Inter Miami CF, 07/05/2025
4. Inter Miami CF
Previous ranking: 6
Miami knocked disconnected immoderate Club World Cup rust oregon fatigue successful a shaky opening 2 minutes against Montréal and past looked each spot the squad they sometimes amusement flashes of being. Lionel Messi scored doubly and acceptable up different successful the 4-1 romp. Welcome back.
5. FC Cincinnati
Previous ranking: 9
The Evander Show continues, and everyone wants a summons to spot the Cincinnati attacker who scored a extremity and acceptable up the 2nd successful a 2-1 triumph implicit Chicago. He has 5 goals and 2 assists successful the past 3 matches.
6. San Diego FC
Previous ranking: 4
San Diego is utilized to being the squad that comes from down to get a win, but it was Houston pulling it disconnected astatine SDFC's disbursal this weekend. Despite holding a 3-2 pb successful the 87th minute, San Diego saw its four-match triumph streak snapped successful a 4-3 loss.
7. Minnesota United
Previous ranking: 8
Minnesota took attraction of concern connected the Fourth of July, dominating its distant contention with Dallas for a 2-1 victory. Carlos Harvey, 1 of respective players the Loons were missing due to the fact that of planetary absences successful the past fewer contests, returned and scored the opener.
8. Columbus Crew
Previous ranking: 7
With an aboriginal extremity from Diego Rossi, the Crew hoped to instrumentality each 3 points from their travel to Seattle but ended up settling for a 1-1 stalemate with the Sounders. Even being distant from home, they closed retired good and had chances to find the triumph but volition spell location blessed extending their unbeaten tally to four.
9. Seattle Sounders
Previous ranking: 5
After returning from the Club World Cup with a win, the Sounders played a decent lucifer Sunday and emerged with a 1-1 gully with Columbus. Their expectations volition beryllium higher erstwhile Jordan Morris, Pedro de la Vega and different cardinal players instrumentality to the starting XI.
10. Orlando City
Previous ranking: 10
For the 2nd consecutive week, Orlando dominated its contention but was incapable to unafraid each 3 points, earning a 2-2 gully with Charlotte connected Saturday. The squad rallied from 2 goals down but would've hoped to marque its 67-33 possession borderline much acutely felt.
11. LAFC
Previous ranking: 11
After returning to enactment pursuing the Club World Cup past weekend, LAFC were again inactive, with their lucifer astatine Austin postponed due to the fact that of the tragic flooding successful Central Texas.
12. San Jose Earthquakes
Previous ranking: 12
For the 3rd clip successful 4 matches, the Quakes secured a 1-1 gully -- this clip doing truthful against the Red Bulls. After losing DeJuan Jones to a reddish paper conscionable aft the hr mark, the constituent feels similar an achievement.
13. Portland Timbers
Previous ranking: 15
David Da Costa's long-range extremity was the quality arsenic the Timbers topped New England 2-1 connected Saturday. Portland sits 4th successful the West and bounced backmost good from a concerning 3-0 nonaccomplishment to Toronto past week, making that effect look similar the anomaly.
14. New York Red Bulls
Previous ranking: 13
Emil Forsberg's aboriginal extremity enactment the Red Bulls connected a bully way successful a agelong roadworthy travel to look San Jose, but adjacent aft the Quakes went down to 10 men, they weren't capable to find a 2nd extremity and settled for a 1-1 draw.
15. Charlotte FC
Previous ranking: 16
It is ever The Pep Biel Show successful Charlotte, with the Spanish attacker scoring the opening extremity and assisting a 2nd connected a acceptable piece, but Charlotte fto the pb gaffe distant and settled for a 2-2 gully with Orlando. The Crown present is winless successful its past four.
16. New York City FC
Previous ranking: 17
NYCFC logged a 3-1 triumph implicit Toronto connected Thursday, taking vantage of the instrumentality of guardant Alonso Martínez from the Gold Cup for an attacking detonation that saw goals from Hannes Wolf, Mitja Ilenic and Kevin O'Toole.
17. Chicago Fire
Previous ranking: 14
The Fire couldn't chill disconnected red-hot Evander successful a 2-1 nonaccomplishment to Cincinnati. Philip Zinckernagel scored the consolation goal, his seventh extremity successful the past 8 matches. While Chicago looks up for a conflict for the playoff places, it has fallen successful 3 of its erstwhile 4 contests.
18. Austin FC
Previous ranking: 18
Austin's contention with LAFC was postponed this play retired of respect to those affected by the flooding successful Central Texas. The Verde volition instrumentality to enactment successful a U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal connected Tuesday.
19. Houston Dynamo
Previous ranking: 22
In the craziest lucifer of the play -- by acold -- Houston rallied precocious and got a treble from Ezequiel Ponce, including a extremity successful the 100th minute, to gain a 4-3 triumph implicit San Diego astatine Snapdragon Stadium. It's the 2nd triumph successful a enactment for the Dynamo, who volition person a accidental astatine the postseason if they're capable to amusement that benignant of heart.
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San Diego FC vs. Houston Dynamo - Game Highlights
Watch the Game Highlights from San Diego FC vs. Houston Dynamo, 07/05/2025
20. FC Dallas
Previous ranking: 19
It's 3 defeats successful a enactment for Dallas, aft Eric Quill's squad conceded 2 earlier a Logan Farrington consolation. They've had cardinal absences astatine the back, but conceding 9 goals successful 3 matches indicates much than simply unit problems.
21. Real Salt Lake
Previous ranking: 23
Noel Caliskan acceptable the code with a sixth-minute extremity and Salt Lake continues to make successful the onslaught adjacent with Diego Luna connected planetary duty, beating St. Louis 3-2 connected Saturday. RSL had to clasp disconnected a rally from the visitors but were capable to debar decision for the 3rd clip consecutively.
22. Colorado Rapids
Previous ranking: 20
The Rapids proceed to conflict with wounded absences, falling 2-1 to Kansas City astatine location connected the Fourth of July. Dejan Joveljic's fourth-minute opener deflated the location squad and a 2nd extremity was a upland excessively hard to climb.
23. New England Revolution
Previous ranking: 21
The Revs haven't won successful their past four, falling to Portland, 2-1. Once again, they conceded archetypal and past battled back. If they could halt digging holes to ascent retired of, they'd beryllium successful the Eastern Conference playoff places.
24. Sporting Kansas City
Previous ranking: 26
An aboriginal extremity from Dejan Joveljic enactment Sporting successful a festive temper connected the Fourth of July and Erik Thommy added the 2nd arsenic SKC secured a 2-1 roadworthy triumph against Colorado connected Friday.
25. Atlanta United
Previous ranking: 25
How a squad that spent truthful overmuch connected its onslaught is inactive mustering specified small punch is immense enigma that Atlanta doesn't look adjacent to solving. At slightest the backmost enactment performed successful a scoreless gully with D.C.
26. CF Montréal
Previous ranking: 26
Montréal capitalized connected an aboriginal Messi mistake, but the second-minute extremity by Prince Owusu was the lone agleam spot. Messi scored twice, including a wonderment extremity that volition adhd to his lengthy item reel, arsenic Montréal fell, 4-1.
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Mitja Ilenic slots successful a extremity to treble NYCFC's lead
Mitja Ilenic extends NYCFC's pb successful the 49th minute.
27. Toronto FC
Previous ranking: 27
It's a caller epoch for Toronto, who bid farewell to Italian DPs Federico Bernardeschi and Lorenzo Insigne during the week. The results, for now, stayed the same, though, arsenic the Canadian broadside fell 3-1 to NYCFC connected the road.
28. D.C. United
Previous ranking: 28
Despite Christian Benteke's instrumentality to the starting lineup, D.C.'s onslaught inactive lacked spark successful a dismal gully with Atlanta. D.C. had 2 shots connected people to Atlanta's one.
29. LA Galaxy
Previous ranking: 30
Joseph Paintsil's double, with his household successful the stadium, helped the Galaxy unafraid a daze 3-0 triumph implicit Vancouver. It not lone doubled their triumph full connected the play but makes it 4 of the past 5 games successful which Greg Vanney's clump has avoided defeat.
30. St. Louis City SC
Previous ranking: 29
St. Louis City volition instrumentality bosom from its combat backmost successful a 3-2 nonaccomplishment to Salt Lake, scoring erstwhile they were 2-0 down and again astatine 3-1, but that does small to obscure the hard facts: They're winless successful their past five, and 4 of those person been losses.
