The 2025 Major League Cricket (also known as MLC 2025, or for sponsorship reasons as 2025 Cognizant Major League Cricket) was the third season of Major League Cricket, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league established in 2019 by American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) in the United States. The tournament was played from June 12 to July 13, 2025.
In the final, MI New York defeated defending champions the Washington Freedom by 5 runs in a last-over thriller to win their second title.
In May 2024, MLC announced plans to expand its season from 19 games to 34 by its third season. By January 2025, amidst concerns that the league's schedule would overlap with other T20 leagues like The Hundred, MLC announced that their season would run from mid-June to July, thereby avoiding conflict. A full schedule would be released in March, following the season's annual domestic draft.
The domestic draft, which was held in February 2025, saw a number of top players released by teams â key amongst them being Pat Cummins and Travis Head.
All six teams from the previous season will take part this season.
Initially, ahead of the season opener, the appearance of Afghan players in the tournament was in doubt due to U.S. President Donald Trump's travel ban on twelve countries, including Afghanistan. Trump's proclamation, however, allowed travel for players participating in a "major sporting event"; MLC was classified as such an event, thus Afghan players were allowed to participate.
Matches were held at three venues: Grand Prairie's Grand Prairie Stadium, Lauderhill's Broward County Stadium, and Oakland's Oakland Coliseum. This was the first tournament in which games were held at Oakland and Lauderhill; Morrisville's Church Street Park hosted games the previous two tournaments.
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