Discount Memberships Available

Major League Scout Memberships are now available for a reduced price of £10 until the new season kicks off.

New Look - For Now, Maybe

You will have noticed that we’ve a new (old) look around these parts tonight.

MLS Fantasy Question Time: Consult our panel ahead of 2019 season

Major League Scout are giving you the opportunity to ask questions of our esteemed panel of MLS personalities ahead of the 2019 season.

Rate My Team Update

Our Rate My Team tool and the associated Projections enjoyed an extensive update overnight as we applied tweaked player appearance probabilities based on the pre-season matches.

Scout Report : Keaton Parks

New York City FC’s off-season recruitment finally got underway with the loan signing of Benfica's midfielder Keaton Parks. 

New MLS Scout Head to Head Leagues 2019

Moving Target - Marlon Hairston

Houston Dynamo’s seemingly annual fight against mediocrity has been boosted with the signing of defender Marlon Hairston from Colorado Rapids for a reported $175,000 in TAM.

Being on time to the points party can save your MLS Fantasy season

Ever feel like you’ve arrived late to the points party?

The Art of Team Selection

Obviously the main secret to Fantasy Football  is picking the right players, then the right starting XI, then the right captain. However, things shouldn’t end there, there is still an art is how you order your XI. This art may not actually get you any more points so could be viewed as unnecessary vanity. How dare you! Order your troops right and not only can you benefit from a nicer team to look at but perhaps a nosey rival may be affected too.

Arsenal and Colorado Rapids: Time to collaborate

It would be beneficial for Arsenal Football Club to make better use of their American ownership and subsequent associations. One way would be to collaborate with the Colorado Rapids.

MLS Fantasy preseason guide now LIVE

Today we officially launched our pre-season guide page for build-up to the new season.

Hard Winter for Fantasy Managers

The Winter is a challenging time for the Fantasy Football addict. The heady days of March to October have passed and the seven months of the Major League Soccer Fantasy (MLS Fantasy) planning and transfers are over. Almost a year of battling for a mini-league, to grab a high rank or, for the select few, to win a Fantasy Football competition, have turned to dust in a second. The final whistle blew one Sunday afternoon in late-October and, as Major League teams across the country collectively exhaled, so did us Fantasy managers.

MLS Question Time - Consult our panel ahead of Preseason

With Preseason now up and running, MLS Fantasy managers can now look forward with a hint of excitement, at the fact that MLS is just around the corner.

MLS Fantasy 2019 - Price Prediction Game

Each pre-season the guessing game starts regarding player prices. This time around community regular Aaron has created a price prediction game as we gear up for Major League Soccer Fantasy launch in July.

MLS Expansion: Ranking the remaining potential markets

Austin FC's formal announcement as Major League Soccer's 27th expansion team has made the race to be the 28th team wide open. Here are the contenders 

Scout Report : Marcos Lopez

San Jose Earthquakes have bolstered their defensive ranks with the capture of Peruvian defender Marcos Lopez from Sporting Cristal.

How To Get The Perfect MLS Fantasy Team

With just a couple of weeks to go before the launch of another season, MLS Fantasy managers will struggle to create the perfect team.

MLS Fantasy Top Tips

Over the last two seasons I’ve really started to knuckle down and try to improve my rank. In 2017 I broke my personal best with a rank of 7,108, followed by my best rank to date of 3,109 last season. So what exactly happened? What factors did I consider that influenced my decisions and helped improve my rank? Or was it all down to blind luck? I’ve listed below several factors and pieces of advice that I received on MLS Scout that might help others see a nice rank jump next year.

Scout Report : Alex De John

Orlando City completed the first major transfer deal of the off-season earlier this week with their acquisition of Dalkurd FF defender Alex de John.

Scouting for Writers

To help with the continued growth of the editorial coverage on Major League Scout we are looking to expand our team of contributors.

Scout Report - Tommy McNamara

Houston Dynamo completed their first major off-season signing with the capture of former New York City FC midfielder Tommy McNamara during the MLS re-entry draft on December 11th, 2018, giving the Club exclusive rights to negotiate the players contract.

Four Ways To Make Your Draft League Fun

Let’s start with the glaringly obvious: when opponents stop playing they sap all the fun out of a draft league.

Introducing - Draft Kings Fantasy Football

Major League Scout are delighted to announce Draft Kings Daily Fantasy Football as our brand new partner game for the 2019 season.

Scout Report : Osvaldo Alonso

Minnesota United made their first major signing of the MLS off-season on Thursday, signing up Alonso to a possible DP contract, as it was reported that they were very interested Osvaldo Alonso.

Scout Report: Robinho Barbosa

Columbus Crew pulled off one of the most eye-catching moves of the Winter transfer window in MLS with the signing of Ceara midfielder Robinho Barbosa on a season-long loan.

New MLS Scout Head to Head Leagues: 2019 - 2020

LOOKING FOR A NEW CHALLENGE?

We here at MLS Scout have decided that for the upcoming 2019 MLS Fantasy season and beyond, we have decided to create a couple of Head to Head Leagues, which include promotion and relegation. 

The Last Man Standing Competition

Welcome to the first season of the unofficial Major League Soccer Scout Last Man Standing competition, which is built into the Major League Soccer Fantasy game.

Pre season section now LIVE

With July now upon us, the Pre-Season section of the site is up and running once again as we edge towards the first batch of friendlies. We’ve collated the current summer schedule for all 20 Premier League clubs and also added links to every article referencing the upcoming season, from Moving Targets to Sleepers, Great Expectations to Scout Reports to Fixture Analysis pieces, in addition to a look back at the three promoted sides displays in the previous campaign.

We’ll be updating the Pre-Season section on a daily basis, adding every article upon publication. Each team also has their own “Scout Notes” and “Form Players” sections – we’ll be scouring the friendlies and, as well as rolling out plenty of Scout Scribbles articles to cover the games, will be using this as a handy one-stop-shop for your guide ahead of next month’s kick-off.

The 2019 MLS Fixtures are active

The Major League Soccer fixture list for 2019 was released today at 9am, giving Fantasy managers an early idea of which teams to target in the opening few Gameweeks.

The Franchise - FC Cincinnati

We begin our in-depth coverage of the newly promoted teams with analysis of USL Outfit FC Cincinnati.

FC Cincinnati make their long awaited Major League Soccer debut in 2019 after learning of their schedule yesterday afternoon. It will be interesting to see how the new team does as in the last couple of season's barring Orlando City SC have at least made the MLS playoffs.