{"id":80985,"date":"2026-11-06T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/major-league-rugby-could-get-buffalo-team-amid-talks-with-17-other-locations\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T11:55:09","slug":"major-league-rugby-could-get-buffalo-team-amid-talks-with-17-other-locations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/major-league-rugby-could-get-buffalo-team-amid-talks-with-17-other-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Rugby could get Buffalo team amid talks with 17 other locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Buffalo Thunderbolts would enter league in 2028<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>League could expand in time for 2031 World Cup<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Major League Rugby will play with just five teams in 2027 but has signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majorleague.rugby\/news\/major-league-rugby-signs-letter-of-intent-with-buffalo-group-pursuing-2028-expansion\">a letter of intent<\/a> with the Buffalo Thunderbolts regarding a bid for entry in 2028 and is in discussions with 17 groups regarding future expansion.<\/p>\n<p>MLR was formed in 2018, and by 2022 the competition supported 13 teams. In 2025, teams in Utah, Miami, Los Angeles, Houston and New Orleans dropped out.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/nov\/06\/major-league-rugby-could-get-buffalo-team-amid-talks-with-17-other-locations\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo Thunderbolts would enter league in 2028 League could expand in time for 2031 World Cup Major League Rugby will play with just five teams in 2027 but has signed a letter of intent with the Buffalo Thunderbolts regarding a bid for entry in 2028 and is in discussions with 17 groups regarding future expansion. &#8230; <a title=\"Major League Rugby could get Buffalo team amid talks with 17 other locations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/major-league-rugby-could-get-buffalo-team-amid-talks-with-17-other-locations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Major League Rugby could get Buffalo team amid talks with 17 other locations\">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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80985","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=80985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}