July 30 – Sporting Kansas City’s partnership with Populous to revamp their home stadium, Children’s Mercy Park positions the club within a broader trend of MLS stadium enhancements that’s transforming matchday experiences across the league.
July 28 – Major League Soccer (MLS) has managed to shoot itself in the foot spectacularly, slapping, Lionel Messi, its biggest draw with a suspension for missing an exhibition match.
July 25 – Don Garber finds himself in an impossible position. The Major League Soccer (MLS) commissioner’s defence of the league’s ban on political signage rings hollow when federal agents are quite literally snatching people off the streets in broad daylight.
July 25 – The rules are clear: show up for the Major League Soccer All-Star Game, or sit out your club’s next match. Simple as that.
July 24 – Former Manchester United striker, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández is in the process of ruining his reputation after the Mexican Football Federation’s fine and warning for his jaw-dropping TikTok misogyny.
July 24 – Former Manchester United and Mexico national team striker Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández has been fined and formally warned by the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) after making a series of sexist comments on social media.
July 23 – The National Women’s Soccer League’s (NWSL) 16th club has officially planted its flag: Denver Summit FC. After months of open fan voting, the name emerged as the favourite – a far cry from the chaos in Boston, where the original BOS Nation FC was rebranded to Boston Legacy FC after a public backlash.
July 18 – US third tier pro league, the National Independent Soccer Association (NISA), that looked about to fold has instead unveiled a rebrand designed to reflect its evolving role in the American soccer ecosystem.
July 11 – The most iconic name in American soccer is back. The Cosmos – dropping the ‘New York’ to reflect their new New Jersey home – are set to return in 2026 under the ownership of North Jersey Pro Soccer, the Paterson-based organisation that’s just pulled off one of the most significant acquisitions in recent soccer history.
July 10 – Sometimes failure is more compelling than success, a fact US broadcasting giant Fox can now attest to after it saw its Concacaf Gold Cup final numbers boom, with viewers tuning in to watch the US Men’s National Team’s latest capitulation.
July 10 – The 2025 Gold Cup will go down as one of the most competitive and evenly matched finals tournaments in Gold Cup history. Of the 31 matches played, 24 were decided by single goal.
Nine matches finished as a draw. In the quarter finals three of the four match-ups were decided by a penalty shoot-out.
July 8 – Having praised the opportunity of the Gold Cup and the importance of being able to have his team together for an extended time at a proper competition, US coach Mauricio Pochettino has turned edgy and frustrated after having lost the final 2-1 to Mexico on Sunday night in Houston.
Mexico 2 USA 1
July 6 – In front of a sold-out crowd of 70,925 in the NRG Stadium in Houston, Mexico beat the USA 2-1 to win the 2025 Gold Cup.
July 6 – Concacaf has announced that today’s 2025 Gold Cup Final at NRG Stadium, Houston, between the United States and Mexico, is sold out.
July 4 – On June 14 the city of Los Angeles in California was being swarmed by ICE agents, communities were being torn apart and families broken apart, daily protests had seen areas of the city closed, and US president Donald Trump had called in the National Guard and even US Marines from Camp Pendleton to strike fear into the heart of a state that he says is out of control.