Orlando was a new market for MLS, which returned to Florida for the first time since folding their Miami and Tampa Bay franchises before the 2002 season.

Chivas USA, which had called the Los Angeles area home since 2005 and shared the StubHub Center with the LA Galaxy.

The league folded Chivas in October 2014, after the conclusion of the regular season, though it announced plans to add a second LA-area club, Los Angeles FC, in 2018.

The regular season concluded with all teams playing at the same scheduled time, a league first.

The 2015 season saw the launch of a new United States television and media rights deal with English-language ESPN and Fox Sports and Spanish-language Univision Deportes.

The deal, formally announced in May 2014, sees regular weekly game broadcasts on ESPN2 (Sunday afternoons) and Fox Sports 1 (Sunday evenings), as well as a regular Friday night match on UniMás and/or Univision Deportes Network.

As part of the deal, the networks also share coverage of the U.S. Soccer men's and women's national teams.

[6] MLS also reached a four-year agreement with Eurosport to air live matches in many other European countries.

The allocations will be ranked in reverse order of finish for the 2014 season, taking playoff performance into account.

[21] Once the club uses its allocation ranking to acquire a player, it drops to the bottom of the list.