MLS Season Pass returns

MLS Season Pass is back on AppleTV for the 2025 season, along with a few changes and some added accessibility.

Probably the most welcome change is that the service will once again be free for T-Mobile subscribers, who can redeem their pass through the T-Life app starting on Feb. 18. It’s basically the same deal they got in 2023, but did not get in 2024.

While not free, there is improved accessibility for others as well. MLS Season Pass is now available through Comcast/Xfinity and DirecTV residential. Xfinity users will actually get a free preview from Feb. 22-March 2 and will have MLS360 — the wrap-around show — available for free all year. Both they and DirecTV residential subscribers can also get the service through their normal channels, meaning they won’t need a separate streaming device. Previously, DirecTV only offered MLS Season Pass to commercial establishments.

For anyone else, you can use this affiliate link to subscribe, which will send a somewhat significant percentage of your fee to Sounder at Heart to help support independent media. The cost is $99/year or $79/year if you already have AppleTV+ (which can be canceled after one month…).

MLS Season Pass will also be undergoing a few changes, most notably the introduction of “Sunday Night Soccer” that will include an “enhanced production” and dedicated studio programming. Essentially, it marks the first time since MLS moved to Apple that they’ll have something like a dedicated national broadcast. The games will be called in English by Taylor Twellman and Jake Zivin with Andrew Wiebe doing sideline reporting, and in Spanish by Sammy Sadovnik and Diego Valeri. The Sounders are currently scheduled for five Sunday league games. MLS Wrap Up will follow the broadcast, during which they’ll do a recap of the entire weekend.

Less positively, the practice of having announcers on site for every game will apparently be stopped. MLS executive Seth Bacon told Jonathan Tannenwald that some games would feature both remote production and remote broadcasters.