Opening Doors

Nashville SC

Debut: May 1 vs. Philadelphia

Seats: 30,000

Cost:$345 million

Architect: Populous

General contractor: Mortenson/Messer; Walter P Moore

Naming-rights partner: TBD

KICKER: The venue is the largest soccer-specific stadium in the U.S. and Canada.

St. Louis SC

Debuts: 2023

Cost:$457.8 million

Seats: 22,500

Architect: HOK; Snow Kreilich Architects

General contractor: Mortenson

Naming-rights partner: Centene Corp., a St. Louis-based health care company, landed the rights with a 15-year deal.

KICKER: The 2023 expansion team’s new home is expected to be completed in July.

Rights Stuff

$90 million— Annual value of the league’s eight-year media rights deals, which expire at season’s end. Fox and ESPN pay a combined $75 million and Univision pays $15 million.

Seating Chart

50%— Capacity allowed at Olympic Stadium (below), where CF Montreal will play its home opener on March 5; Montreal is the only MLS club that will start the season with attendance restrictions.

New Looks

Five clubs — the Colorado Rapids, LA Galaxy, New England Revolution, New York Red Bulls and Seattle Sounders — have unveiled new primary kits so far. The Revolution, a founding member of MLS, have a new logo for the first time, making them the last original team to make a change.

C-Suite Notes

In the past year, three clubs have named a woman either president or CEO, joining D.C. United and Danita Johnson and bringing the total of women leading the business side of an active MLS club to four; Carolyn Kindle Betz is the CEO of 2023 expansion club St. Louis City SC.

Ishwara Glassman Chrein

Title: President, Chicago Fire FC

Start date: June 2021

Prior position: Head of sports partnerships/business development, Verizon Media

Shari Ballard

Title: CEO, Minnesota United FC

Start date: October 2021

Prior position: Retired, president of multichannel retail, Best Buy

Kristin Bernert

Title: President, business operations, Columbus Crew SC

Start date: January 2022

Prior position: Co-founder, KB2 Sports

HQ Moves

No. 1— MLS employee number for President and Deputy Commissioner Mark Abbott, who joined the league in 1993 three years before it started play and announced that he is retiring at season’s end.