Major League Soccer has released its new playoff format, which includes 10 teams and a minimum of three from each conference.
The top three teams in each conference automatically qualify, and the top four teams after that regardless of conference affiliation qualify as wildcards.
The four wildcards play a single-elimination playoff round to narrow the field to eight, with the lowest remaining seed playing the Supporters Shield winner, and second-lowest playing the other conference winner. The format remains the same as past years after that point, with two-legged, aggregate conference semifinals followed by a single-match conference championship.
The conference championship games are guaranteed to be hosted by teams actually in their respective conferences, avoiding a scenario like last season when Colorado and San Jose played for the Eastern Conference title; however, an Eastern Conference championship can still be won by a team in the Western Conference, and vice versa.
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