MLS playoffs schedule: when do the Conference semi-finals start?
The MLS post-season returns this weekend for the Conference semi-finals , bringing together eight teams with genuine ambitions to lift MLS Cup . On Saturday 25 November the four Eastern Conference teams will face-off, with the Western Conference contingent playing on Sunday 26 November . All four games look finely poised and promise enormous drama with each team’s playoff fates on the line. Unlike in the best-of-three Round One, every playoff game from now on is a single-legged elimination tie . If you lose, you go home. Here are the eight teams still battling it out for MLS Cup glory... MLS Cup Playoffs: Conference semi-finalists Eastern Conference Orlando City Columbus Crew FC Cincinnati Philadelphia Union Western Conference Houston Dynamo Sporting Kansas City Seattle Sounders LAFC Sporting Kansas City , who finished eighth in the West, are the lowest seed left in the competition. They needed victory over San Jose Earthquakes in the Wild Card game to make it to Rou...