The conference has produced 17 Supporters' Shield champions and 11 MLS Cup winners in Major League Soccer's first 28 seasons.
[3] Changes from 2019: Inter Miami CF was added in the 2020 expansion, [4] Nashville SC was added since the MLS is Back Tournament up to the end of the 2020 season;[5] Chicago Fire SC was renamed Chicago Fire FC.
Changes from 2020: Nashville SC moved in from the Western Conference;[6] the Montreal Impact was renamed Club de Foot Montréal.
Changes from 2021: Charlotte FC was added as a then-unnamed expansion franchise in 2019, with its first season initially set for 2021[7] but delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2019, the playoffs returned to a single match format (including the conference finals), hosted by the higher ranked team through the regular season.
Toronto in 2017 also won the Canadian Championship, being the only MLS team to therefore take a clean sweep of all titles available to them.
† – Miami Fusion were declared winners of the Eastern Division in 2001 after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks forced the cancellation of the rest of the regular season.
In total, the MLS East all-star team has 4 wins, 1 draw, and 1 loss against the west.