The Champions League seems to be the best league in the world for soccer. I know the MLS have participated in something similar this year called the Superliga. I know that currently most MLS teams probably would not be able to compete at the level of teams participating in the Champions League right now, but in five to ten years MLS clubs will surely be amongst the greatest in the world.
2007-10-31 17:30:32 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ UEFA Champions League
NO. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TAKES PLACE UNDER THE AUSPICIES OF UEFA, THE UEROPEAN FOOTBALL BODY.
2007-11-03 21:45:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The (UEFA) Champions' League is the UEFA Confederation Club Championship. As such teams from other confederations are not able to compete in the (UEFA) Champions' League. However, the other confederations have their own Champions' League (though some use different titles -- e.g. South America calls their championship the Liberator's Cup.)
MLS gets two bids in the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Champions' League (as does the Mexican League). The other four spots in the quarter-finals are determined by club competitions (roughly equivalent to the Superliga) in Central America (which gets three spots) and the Carribean (which gets one). Typically, the brackets are established to "seed" the Mexican and U.S. teams so that they do not face each other in the quarters and so that the semi-finals (assuming all four teams win) would have a team from Mexico facing a team from MLS in each semi-final. This year, the two teams from MLS made the semi-finals and lost close matches to the two teams from Mexico.
At this point, D.C. United has won one of the two bids for 2008 by winning the MLS regular season title. The other bid will go to the winner of the MLS Cup. If D.C. United wins the MLS Cup, the second bid will go to Chivas USA as the second place team in the regular season. Pachuca (who won the Champions' League in 2007) has clinched one of the two Mexican bids by winning the Spring half of the Mexican League. Yesterday, Motagua (from the Honduran League won one of the three Central American spots). The Carribean tournament begins on Monday.
Contrary to a previous answer, MLS does not get a bid for the South American Championship.
It should be noted that the winners of each confederation's club championship gets a bid to the world club championship held in Japan every December. Since the current format was established, the finals every year have featured the South American Champion against the European Champion.
2007-10-31 18:44:14 · answer #2 · answered by Tmess2 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, the Champions League is only open to member clubs of the European Association, namely UEFA. MLS clubs will probably be eligible (if they are not already) to play in any CONCACAF competition and may well one day be accepted into South American cups. Until that happens, when they are playing at a higher level than they are now, it may take teams like DC United, Chicago Fire and the Galaxy a bit longer than 10 years before they can be considered a threat to the world's top teams. For what it's worth, I think this will happen eventually, though not in the next decade.
2007-11-01 06:31:50 · answer #3 · answered by Wee Shuggy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If MLS clubs relocated its team to another country, then UEFA could consider them to participate. However they'll need to join that country's league system - they would effectively start at the bottom of the amateur (Sunday Football) League & spend the best part of 10 years trying to gain promotion each year until they reach that professional league & then finish in the top 3 or 4..
But all this talk is pointless - so - No its not possible.
2007-11-01 05:30:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Champions League isn't really a league perse.
It is a European cup competition, and it is formatted as a cup competition.
The teams that play belong to their own regional league, the EPL, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga, etc, etc.
Two more things, one, they well never be able to participate. And two, they well never be on par with any of the major European Leagues. They well never come close, and right now, a literal All-Star team of the MLS could not even compete with an on form major European team.
2007-10-31 18:23:51 · answer #5 · answered by Wittmann 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Lol just imagine the results Barcelona 45-0 Seattle Sounders Bayern Munich 78-0 Houston Dynamo Real Madrid 69-0 La Galaxy
2016-05-26 06:06:38 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the UEFA Champions' League is strictly to clubs from Europe only & teams from Major League Soccer are not allowed to participate.
2007-11-01 01:58:24 · answer #7 · answered by foongwk140804 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
no. they can't. it's strictly for european clubs.
however, MLS league champions should be able to participate the american champions league. of course, going up against boca juniors type of teams from south america. if they can beat them all, they can enter the world champions club league which includes winners of each region's champions league. then they can play against the winner of european champions league winner.
2007-10-31 18:01:36 · answer #8 · answered by Liverpool 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A century wouldnt be long enough for football in america to hit off, no offence, but you have your sport, we have ours.
But, seeing as all your games actually derive from our games, then you shouldnt really have too much trouble in competing, its just the media attention and commercial side of things will never pick up in football. and its football, not soccer.
2007-11-02 09:52:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not possible since they are not based in Europe. unless of course America decided to join uefa then it could happen but i doubt if they would want to.
2007-11-01 00:21:12 · answer #10 · answered by BUST TO UTOPIA 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋