{"id":76968,"date":"2026-08-04T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/new-mls-commissioner-says-promotion-and-relegation-wont-be-coming-anytime-soon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T19:58:46","slug":"new-mls-commissioner-says-promotion-and-relegation-wont-be-coming-anytime-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/new-mls-commissioner-says-promotion-and-relegation-wont-be-coming-anytime-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"New MLS commissioner says promotion and relegation won\u2019t be coming \u2018anytime soon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Larry Berg officially introduced to media and MLS staff<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Berg to take over for Don Garber on 1 January 2027<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MLS will have a new commissioner starting in 2027, but don\u2019t expect the league to adopt the promotion and relegation system seen in league systems throughout the world anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Berg, a co-owner of MLS club Los Angeles FC and the league\u2019s incoming boss, said in his introductory press conference on Tuesday that he doesn\u2019t think that the long-mooted idea of bringing \u201cpro\/rel\u201d to the North American league is \u201cappropriate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/aug\/04\/mls-larry-berg-promotion-relegation-comissioner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Berg officially introduced to media and MLS staff Berg to take over for Don Garber on 1 January 2027 MLS will have a new commissioner starting in 2027, but don\u2019t expect the league to adopt the promotion and relegation system seen in league systems throughout the world anytime soon. Larry Berg, a co-owner of &#8230; <a title=\"New MLS commissioner says promotion and relegation won\u2019t be coming \u2018anytime soon\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/04\/new-mls-commissioner-says-promotion-and-relegation-wont-be-coming-anytime-soon\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New MLS commissioner says promotion and relegation won\u2019t be coming \u2018anytime soon\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}