2025–26 Major Arena Soccer League season

The 2025–26 Major Arena Soccer League season is the eighteenth season of the league and the eleventh season as the Major Arena Soccer League. The regular season started on November 28, 2025, and ends on March 29, 2026. Each team will play 24 games for a total 96 games to be played.

Changes from 2024–25

The league dropped from 12 teams from the 2024–25 season to 8 teams. With only 8 teams in the league, the playoff structure adjusted to having the top 6 teams qualify for the Ron Newman Cup Playoffs, with the top 2 seeds receiving a first-round bye.

Teams

Stadiums and locations

Returning

8 of the 12 teams that competed in the previous season returned for the 2025–26 season

• Baltimore Blast
• Empire Strykers
• Kansas City Comets
• Milwaukee Wave
• San Diego Sockers
• St. Louis Ambush
• Tacoma Stars
• Utica City FC

Dropped to MASL 2

• The Harrisburg Heat relocated to Hershey Park Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania for the 2025–26 season. The Heat have temporarily moved to M2 due to the arena dates only working with the M2 schedule. The Heat will return to MASL for the 2026–2027 season.

Folded

• The Dallas Sidekicks, Texas Outlaws, and Chihuahua Savage were removed from the league's list of teams on its website prior to the start of the season. Both Dallas and Texas had arena complications, while the Texas Outlaws violated a league rule becoming bankrupt, and Chihuahua folded

Change in season format

For the first time in league history, each team will have the opportunity to play every opponent.

Regular season

Teams get 3 points for a regulation win, 2 points for an overime/shootout Win, 1 Point for an overtime/shootout loss.

Last update: March 11th, 2026

2026 Ron Newman Cup

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References

External links

• Official website