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Apple Slashes 2025 MLS Season Pass to as Low as $25

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Apple has significantly discounted the MLS Season Pass for the remainder of the 2025 season, offering the annual subscription at $29, or $25 for Apple TV+ subscribers, down from the regular $99 price.

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The reduced rate covers the rest of the current MLS season and playoffs, including access to every match live and on demand, with separate English and Spanish commentary, with French available for Canadian matches. Other features of the pass include "MLS 360," a whip-around show featuring highlights and commentary from every game, and "Sunday Night Soccer," a newly introduced featured match broadcast every Sunday.

This price drop is consistent with Apple's pricing strategy in previous years, gradually lowering the cost of entry as the season progresses. Monthly subscriptions remain unchanged at $14.99 per month, or $12.99 per month with Apple TV+. The discounted annual subscription is only valid through the end of the 2025 season, after which it will automatically renew at the standard $99 price unless canceled.

MLS Season Pass originally launched in 2023 as part of Apple's 10-year partnership with Major League Soccer. Subscribers who want to take advantage of the new discounted price can sign up via the Apple TV app. To prevent automatic renewal at the full price next year, users must manually cancel their subscription before the start of the 2026 season.

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🥱 Make MLS great again (aka free to watch) it would make Apple look like a world leader if they did that. Instead they gate keep the MLS right when Lionel Messi (the worlds most popular footballer in the history of the sport and foreseeable future) comes to the states to play.

Call it the Apple Effect, thanks Tim Crook

For those who aren’t interested in soccer, the rest of the world doesn’t really care whether or not you like it. The untapped potential of this market would be huge for our country. We’d go from laughing stock of the world to the world’s best. It starts with making games free to watch
 
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iFishishh said:
🥱 Make MLS great again (aka free to watch) it would make Apple look like a world leader if they did that. Instead they gate keep the MLS right when Lionel Messi (the worlds most popular footballer in the history of the sport and foreseeable future) comes to the states to play.

Call it the Apple Effect, thanks Tim Crook

For those who aren’t interested in soccer, the rest of the world doesn’t really care whether or not you like it. The untapped potential of this market would be huge for our country. We’d go from laughing stock of the world to the world’s best. It starts with making games free to watch
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FWIW, Messi and his team lost the Leagues Cup last night against Seattle: 3-0.
 
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iFishishh said:
🥱 Make MLS great again (aka free to watch) it would make Apple look like a world leader if they did that. Instead they gate keep the MLS right when Lionel Messi (the worlds most popular footballer in the history of the sport and foreseeable future) comes to the states to play.

Call it the Apple Effect, thanks Tim Crook

For those who aren’t interested in soccer, the rest of the world doesn’t really care whether or not you like it. The untapped potential of this market would be huge for our country. We’d go from laughing stock of the world to the world’s best. It starts with making games free to watch
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Yes, Messi was great, a worthy contender for the greatest ever but he just isn't physically able to play football at the highest level.
Perhaps with Argentina around him he still has a few years left as others will do the running around but judging from the Club WC a few months ago his team should be called "Messi's friends retirement home".
IMHO the USA should concentrate more in younger home talents.
 
ossifer said:
Why do people come here to comment about their hate for soccer? Wow, impressive. Not for you, fine move on. Don’t be an ass about it. Do you want android people coming here spouting all kinds of bs about how they hate iPhones?
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Yeah not sure what all this lame, anti-soccer grandstanding is about. The commenters here so far need to go touch grass and have some fun that’s not simply participating in hateful capitalism/buying stuff. No likable person cares you hate soccer. I’ll probably buy the MLS pass now since it’s cheaper.
 
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iFishishh said:
🥱 Make MLS great again (aka free to watch) it would make Apple look like a world leader if they did that. Instead they gate keep the MLS right when Lionel Messi (the worlds most popular footballer in the history of the sport and foreseeable future) comes to the states to play.

Call it the Apple Effect, thanks Tim Crook

For those who aren’t interested in soccer, the rest of the world doesn’t really care whether or not you like it. The untapped potential of this market would be huge for our country. We’d go from laughing stock of the world to the world’s best. It starts with making games free to watch
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It’s happening slowly because the biggest sports in most non-urban communities now are the soccer leagues, surpassing baseball/tball. Fewer and fewer kids care about baseball.
In the cities, basketball is dominant.

Football participation maintains its niche until high school when popularity still explodes.

But among kids, I see a lot of soccer jerseys on. As a kid, I played soccer and our town and county were pretty soccer forward, but most places had little to no opportunities for kids to play organized soccer.
 
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ossifer said:
Why do people come here to comment about their hate for soccer? Wow, impressive. Not for you, fine move on. Don’t be an ass about it. Do you want android people coming here spouting all kinds of bs about how they hate iPhones?
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This is the average American mindset... just don't comprehend why football is the most popular sport in the world.
 
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I've found the Apple TV system to work well for MLS, no issues with the delivery of the service. My issues are with MLS itself: their refereeing is incompetent at best, they seem to allow Inter Miami do whatever they want (SUAREZ WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK DUDE??? BAN HIM) and the lack of meaningful competition (read: no pro/rel) really damage the overall product. I believe soccer is on the rise and will inevitably catch up/overtake some American sports (baseball seems like it's trying hard to go extinct) but gosh, I don't feel like I'm going to pay to watch the inconsistency of MLS again after this year.
 
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I've found the Apple TV system to work well for MLS, no issues with the delivery of the service. My issues are with MLS itself: their refereeing is incompetent at best, they seem to allow Inter Miami do whatever they want (SUAREZ WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK DUDE??? BAN HIM) and the lack of meaningful competition (read: no pro/rel) really damage the overall product. I believe soccer is on the rise and will inevitably catch up/overtake some American sports (baseball seems like it's trying hard to go extinct) but gosh, I don't feel like I'm going to pay to watch the inconsistency of MLS again after this year.
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Everybody complains about the referee around the World :D

Has Suárez bitten anyone already?
 
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pamon said:
further proves soccer is not a major sport in the US and won't be. The major 4 takes a majority of the ratings and probably wrestling gets more viewers in the US than soccer
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America’s hottest new sport is pickleball. Let’s not act like it’s an accomplishment to be the odd man out for the most popular sport on the planet.
 
Here in Canada, it's basically the same story: soccer has never been popular except with immigrants. According to statistics, soccer's popularity among the locals ranks about the same as sled dog racing: a niche sport at best.
And that's fine – each country has its preferences. You go to France or Italy and find out that ice hockey and baseball aren't exactly popular there either.
 
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Jeeve Stubbs said:
Here in Canada, it's basically the same story: soccer has never been popular except with immigrants. According to statistics, soccer's popularity among the locals ranks about the same as sled dog racing: a niche sport at best.
And that's fine – each country has its preferences. You go to France or Italy and find out that ice hockey and baseball aren't exactly popular there either.
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Difference is: football is the worlds most popular sport with insane amounts of fans around the world (and money involved). The World Cup final in 2022 had 1.42 billion viewers, compared to 127.7 million watching superbowl 2025. USA and Canada are probably the only countries except the Vatican where football is not a top sport priority.
 
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