Major League Soccer was founded as the top professional soccer league in the United States, a condition set by FIFA when it awarded the 1994 World Cup to the country. The league played its first season in 1996 with ten teams, aiming to build the game after the failure of the earlier North American Soccer League. In its early years it struggled with financial problems and falling attendance, but it stabilised, built soccer-specific stadiums and expanded steadily, adding Canadian clubs. The arrival of famous players such as David Beckham in 2007 raised its profile, and Lionel Messi joined Inter Miami in 2023. It now has around thirty teams in the United States and Canada.
Before and after
- 31 October 1993Death of Federico Fellini
- 1 November 1993Creation of FreeBSD
- 1 November 1993Founding of European Union
- 15 December 1993Release of Schindler's List
- 17 December 1993Origins of Major League Soccer
- 20 December 1993Founding of Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 30 December 1993Holocene calendar
- 1 January 1994Los Chiapas conflict
- 19941994 Genocide against Tutsi
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The era
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