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''Soccer Night in America'' (also known as ''MLS Saturday/MLS on Fox Soccer'') was a weekly presentation of
Major League Soccer Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...
games on FOX Soccer that began in 2003. From
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, FOX Soccer showed 25 to 30 live games each season, plus 2 to 3 playoff games. In 2007, ''MLS Saturday'' started showing a 30-minute pregame and a 30-minute postgame show for each game. In 2011, ''MLS on Fox Soccer'' was rebranded as ''Soccer Night in America'', with its production revamped to provide a viewing experience similar to '' NFL on Fox''. However, Fox was outbid by NBC Sports Network for its MLS package for the 2012–2014 seasons. In 2015, ''Soccer Night in America'' was again rebranded as '' MLS Soccer Sunday'' due to a new deal between Fox and
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, with games on Fox Sports 1 airing from 7-9 pm ET.


See also

*'' MLS Primetime Thursday'' *''
MLS Game of the Week Major League Soccer (MLS) is a professional Association football, soccer league in North America and the highest level of the United States soccer league system. It comprises 30 teams, with 27 in the United States and 3 in Canada, and is sanc ...
'' *'' MLS Soccer Sunday''


References

{{MLS on Fox Major League Soccer on television 2003 American television series debuts 2011 American television series endings Fox Soccer original programming