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Jon Arnold
Apr 28, 2025, 10:30 AM ET
The 2025 MLS play is present firmly underway, which means it's clip for ESPN's Power Rankings.
Who's climbing the table? Who's successful escaped fall? Our writers studied the enactment from crossed Matchday 10 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 Caps extended their pb atop the Western Conference with a 3-1 triumph implicit Minnesota connected Sunday. Pedro Vite netted a treble astatine BC Place aft Sebastian Berhalter's opener. The vibes are precise bully up of Wednesday's day with Miami successful Concacaf Champions Cup action.
2. Inter Miami CF
Previous ranking: 2
Miami whitethorn person felt it had 3 points secured, but a furious Dallas fightback saw the Florida squad autumn 4-3 connected Sunday. Preparation for the Concacaf Champions Cup, however, meant determination was nary Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez, Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba oregon different cardinal players -- truthful Miami keeps its spot for now.
3. Columbus Crew
Previous ranking: 3
The Crew bounced backmost good from their archetypal decision of the season, scoring a extremity successful each fractional to unafraid a 2-1 location triumph implicit San Jose. The goals -- from Sean Zawadzki and Max Arfsten -- inactive aren't coming from the guardant position, but manager Wilfried Nancy inactive won't beryllium excessively acrophobic arsenic agelong arsenic they support coming.
4. FC Cincinnati
Previous ranking: 5
Cincinnati guardant Kévin Denkey scored a double, including a stunning bicycle kick, successful a 2-1 triumph implicit Kansas City. The triumph extends FCC's triumph streak to 5 successful a enactment and keeps them undefeated astatine location successful 2025.
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'Wow!' Kevin Denkey scores sensational bicycle footwear for FC Cincinnati
Check retired this fantastic effort from FC Cincinnati's Kevin Denkey vs. SKC successful MLS.
5. Charlotte FC
Previous ranking: 4
Charlotte yet fell astatine location and did truthful to a astonishing opponent, dropping a 1-0 effect to New England astatine Bank of America Stadium. While the location broadside had much of the ball, generated galore much unsafe chances and outshot the visitors 18-7, Carles Gil's 77th-minute extremity for the Revs was the lone breakthrough.
6. Philadelphia Union
Previous ranking: 7
The Union rolled past D.C., scoring successful the 15th infinitesimal and adding 2 much successful the 2nd fractional for a 3-0 triumph astatine Subaru Park. For Philly, it paired nicely with past weekend's 3-0 triumph implicit Atlanta, though goalkeeper Andre Blake's cleanable expanse made the location side's scoreline look amended than their show whitethorn person warranted.
7. Colorado Rapids
Previous ranking: 8
Despite conceding conscionable earlier the half, the Rapids were capable to gain a constituent successful a 1-1 gully with Seattle. The stalemate extends their unbeaten streak to 3 weeks and keeps Colorado successful the logjam adjacent the apical of the Western Conference.
8. San Diego FC
Previous ranking: 6
It's the archetypal three-match losing streak successful San Diego history, with the enlargement nine falling 3-1 to RSL astatine Snapdragon Stadium connected Saturday. Hirving Lozano's extremity from the punishment spot was 1 of fewer positives for manager Mikey Varas to instrumentality distant from the lucifer arsenic helium present tries to get the squad backmost connected track.
9. Portland Timbers
Previous ranking: 13
The goals support coming for the Timbers, with a 4-2 triumph implicit the Galaxy connected Sunday nighttime making it 18 goals successful the past 7 matches for Phil Neville's group. The effect moves the Timbers into 2nd successful the West.
10. Seattle Sounders
Previous ranking: 10
Danny Musovski continued to find the backmost of the nett for the Sounders, finishing disconnected a debased transverse successful the 45th infinitesimal but conceding successful the 2nd fractional of a 1-1 gully with the Colorado Rapids. The Sounders haven't mislaid successful their past three.
11. Minnesota United
Previous ranking: 9
The bully quality for Minnesota was that it was capable to people aft 2 weeks of being unopen out, but the atrocious quality is that the extremity came precocious successful a 3-1 nonaccomplishment to Vancouver with the Loons already trailing by 3 goals.
12. Nashville SC
Previous ranking: 14
Nashville enactment unneurotic a ascendant performance, smashing the Fire 7-2 connected Saturday. Sam Surridge scored 4 goals, Hany Mukhtar had a pair, and NSC enjoyed what was conscionable astir a cleanable night.
13. LAFC
Previous ranking: 11
The Sunday Night Soccer spotlight shouldn't beryllium excessively agleam for a nine utilized to playing important matches, but LAFC needed Denis Bouanga to salvage a constituent -- which helium did with 2 goals aft the 70th infinitesimal contempt having a punishment saved -- successful a 2-2 gully with St. Louis City.
14. Orlando City
Previous ranking: 15
That's 1 mode to extremity a scoring slump. The Lions were yet to people successful April, but recovered goals aplenty successful a 3-0 triumph implicit Atlanta. In summation to the win, it's present been much than 400 minutes since Orlando conceded.
15. FC Dallas
Previous ranking: 17
FCD showed they person nary discontinue successful them, rallying from 3-1 down to instrumentality each 3 points from a travel to Florida successful a 4-3 triumph implicit Miami. While Inter didn't person their biggest stars connected the field, Dallas volition beryllium arrogant of its gritty showing, particularly with a agelong wounded database meaning galore of its ain accustomed starters didn't marque the trip.
16. Austin FC
Previous ranking: 12
The onslaught remains a large question people for Austin, and it wasn't firing successful a 2-0 decision to Copa Tejas rival Houston this weekend. Forward Brandon Vázquez missed retired with an injury, but the Verde inactive request much from wintertime summation Myrto Uzuni.
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Ondrej Lingr finds the backmost of the nett for Houston Dynamo
Ondrej Lingr finds the backmost of the nett for Houston Dynamo.
17. New York Red Bulls
Previous ranking: 18
Noah Eile headed successful his debut MLS extremity from a country footwear for the lone extremity of a 1-0 Red Bulls triumph implicit Montréal.
18. Houston Dynamo
Previous ranking: 20
The Dynamo were capable to bushed Texas rival Austin 2-0, and fans are plentifulness excited astir the caller addition. A week aft scoring a stoppage-time equalizer successful his debut, Ondrej Lingr capitalized disconnected a failed clearance to unfastened the scoring. A caller MLS prima whitethorn beryllium emerging.
19. New England Revolution
Previous ranking: 22
Call an ambulance, but not for the Revs, who proceed to ascent the array with a 3rd consecutive victory. This weekend, it was a 1-0 triumph implicit Charlotte, who antecedently hadn't dropped a constituent astatine home.
20. D.C. United
Previous ranking: 19
After the precocious of tasting triumph past week, it was backmost to the doldrums for D.C. Christian Benteke's hep wounded kept him from making the travel to Philadelphia, and United lacked attacking punch successful a 3-0 nonaccomplishment to the Union.
21. Real Salt Lake
Previous ranking: 25
Diego Luna made the astir of a 2nd chance. After the reddish paper helium was shown past clip retired was rescinded during the week, helium scored doubly successful his autochthonal California to gait RSL to a 3-1 triumph implicit San Diego.
22. Chicago Fire
Previous ranking: 16
The Fire volition privation to hitch this play from their representation quickly, conceding 7 successful a enactment earlier scoring 2 goals that could hardly beryllium called consolation successful a 7-2 decision to Nashville. Gregg Berhalter made a brace of changes successful the 37th infinitesimal erstwhile Chicago was already down 4-0. It didn't help.
23. St. Louis City SC
Previous ranking: 21
St. Louis apt volition beryllium blessed with its performance, but frustrated it had to settee for a constituent successful a 2-2 gully with LAFC connected Sunday. It's a effect successful a pugnacious spot to play, but the past triumph connected March 15 is getting further and further away.
24. New York City FC
Previous ranking: 24
Alonso Martínez won a punishment and converted it to springiness NYCFC a 1-0 triumph implicit Toronto. The extremity came soon aft a saucy infinitesimal from Martínez created a accidental for Hannes Wolf that was saved disconnected the line.
25. Toronto FC
Previous ranking: 23
Toronto couldn't support NYCFC disconnected the scoresheet, conceding a punishment and seeing it converted successful a 1-0 defeat. The Reds didn't enactment a changeable connected people successful the match.
26. Sporting Kansas City
Previous ranking: 26
Kansas City's topsy-turvy period continues, falling 2-1 to Cincinnati. Since the Peter Vermes epoch ended, it has been a triumph followed by a loss, followed by a win, followed by Saturday's defeat.
27. San Jose Earthquakes
Previous ranking: 27
The Quakes proceed to amusement creativity successful onslaught and were capable to people this week successful Columbus acknowledgment to a decorativeness from Josef Martínez, but the Crew were excessively overmuch to contain. Bruce Arena's men caput backmost to the West Coast aft suffering a 2-1 nonaccomplishment successful Ohio.
28. Atlanta United
Previous ranking: 28
It was different unsmooth play for Atlanta, losing to Orlando, 3-0. After falling 3-0 to Philadelphia past weekend, the past happening the Five Stripes needed was to suffer by the aforesaid scoreline to different squad successful the Eastern Conference.
29. CF Montréal
Previous ranking: 29
The hold for a triumph continues for fans successful Quebec, with Montréal incapable to find the backmost of the nett and conceding from a acceptable portion successful a 1-0 nonaccomplishment to the Red Bulls.
30. LA Galaxy
Previous ranking: 30
The squad showed a spot of tone aft conceding 3 consecutive goals, but the last effect inactive was a 4-2 location decision to Portland. The defending champions person 3 points done 10 matches.
