Orlando City Announces 2025 Major League Soccer Season Schedule

Major League Soccer released its 2025 schedule this afternoon, telling us when, where, and against whom Orlando City will play during the upcoming season. As usual, the Lions will play 34 regular-season games, 17 at home and 17 on the road. They’ll open the season at home as they’ve done every year since joining MLS in 2015, hosting the Philadelphia Union on Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. The club will end the 2025 season on the road, traveling to Toronto for Decision Day on Oct. 18.

The bulk of Orlando City’s schedule will be against Eastern Conference opponents, facing each team twice in 2025  — once at home and once away. Additionally, the Lions will face six Western Conference foes once to complete the 34-game schedule.

The Western Conference opponents visiting Orlando this year include the Portland Timbers (Saturday, May 24), Sporting Kansas City (Saturday, Aug. 16), and the Vancouver Whitecaps (Saturday, Aug. 30). The Lions will visit the LA Galaxy (Saturday, March 29), the Colorado Rapids (Saturday, June 14), and St. Louis City (Wednesday, June 25 — the club’s first-ever MLS trip to St. Louis).

As expected, most of Orlando City’s games this season will take place on Saturday, with 27 of the team’s 34 games occurring on that day. Additionally, there will be four Wednesday games, two on Sundays, and one on a Friday.

The busiest month this year is May, when the Lions have seven games, including two midweek fixtures. March and July are the second-busiest months of the regular season with five games; April and August have four each; June and September each have three; October has two; and February has one game on the schedule.

As for rivalry games, the Lions will face Inter Miami and Atlanta United twice this season. The first game against Miami is on Sunday, May 18 in Fort Lauderdale. The return game in Orlando is on Sunday, Aug. 10. The first game against Atlanta this year will be at Inter&Co Stadium on Saturday, April 26 and the Lions will travel to Georgia on Wednesday, May 28.

A notable difference in the 2025 schedule from the past two years is the lack of a midseason break for the Leagues Cup. The tournament will still continue with 18 MLS clubs facing the 18 Liga MX clubs, but the games will be midweek and the MLS campaign will continue during the annual competition. The league will also play during the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup (sort of), which includes two games at Inter&Co Stadium. The league will break from June 15-24, while FIFA’s competition runs through the bulk of its group stage. Orlando hosts FIFA Club World Cup knockout matches on June 30 and July 4, but those dates don’t directly conflict with City matches.

The Lions won’t play during any of the four FIFA international windows this season. However, they will play four games during the 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup, which could see them lose forward Duncan McGuire to the U.S. National Team. However, since McGuire will not likely return from his shoulder surgery until May or June, it seems unlikely he would be selected for the team after not having played much, if at all, since November.

The 2025 MLS season will be televised on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV for the third consecutive year. In addition to their regular Saturday night lineup, the league is adding a Sunday night game each week this season. Orlando City will be in that slot twice — both against Inter Miami. FOX Sports will also air 34 games over linear television, including 15 on FOX and 19 on FS1. All FOX Sports broadcasts will also be available in Spanish on FOX Deportes. TSN and RDS will have at least one game per week featuring a Canadian club with matchups being announced in the coming weeks.

Here’s the schedule breakdown in terms of games by month:

• February: 1 (home)

• March: 5 (2 home, 3 away)

• April: 4 (2 home, 2 away)

• May: 7 (4 home, 3 away)

• June: 3 (1 home, 2 away)

• July: 5 (2 home, 3 away)

• August: 4 (3 home, 1 away)

• September: 3 (1 home, 2 away)

• October: 2 (1 home, 1 away)

Here’s the schedule breakdown by days of the week:

• Sunday: 2 (1 home, 1 away)

• Monday: 0

• Tuesday: 0

• Wednesday: 4 (2 home, 2 away)

• Thursday: 0

• Friday: 1 (away)

• Saturday: 27 (14 home, 13 away)

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Orlando City’s 2025 Schedule:

(Home games in bold)

• Saturday, Feb. 22 — Philadelphia Union, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, March 1 — Toronto FC, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, March 8 — New York City FC, Yankee Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, March 15 — New York Red Bulls, Sports Illustrated Stadium, 2:30 p.m.

• Saturday, March 22 — D.C. United, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, March 29 — LA Galaxy, Dignity Health Sports Park, 10:30 p.m.

• Saturday, April 5 — Philadelphia Union, Subaru Park, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, April 12 — New York Red Bulls, Inter&Co Stadium, 4:30 p.m.

• Saturday, April 19 — CF Montreal, Stade Saputo, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, April 26 — Atlanta United, Inter&Co Stadium, 7 p.m.

• Saturday, May 3 — Chicago Fire, Soldier Field, 8:30 p.m.

• Saturday, May 10 — New England Revolution, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Wednesday, May 14 — Charlotte FC, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Sunday, May 18 — Inter Miami, Chase Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, May 24 — Portland Timbers, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Wednesday, May 28 — Atlanta United, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, May 31 — Chicago Fire, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, June 14 — Colorado Rapids, Dick’s Sporting Good Park, 9:30 p.m.

• Wednesday, June 25 — St. Louis City, Energizer Park, 8:30 p.m.

• Saturday, June 28 — FC Cincinnati, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, July 5 — Charlotte FC, Bank of America Stadium, 7 p.m.

• Saturday, July 12 — CF Montreal, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Wednesday, July 16 — New York City FC, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, July 19 — New England Revolution, Gillette Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Friday, July 25 — Columbus Crew, Lower.com Field, 7:30 p.m.

• Sunday, Aug. 10 — Inter Miami, Inter&Co Stadium, 8 p.m.

• Saturday, Aug. 16 — Sporting Kansas City, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, Aug. 23 — Nashville SC, GEODIS Park, 8:30 p.m.

• Saturday, Aug. 30 — Vancouver Whitecaps, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, Sept. 13 — D.C. United, Audi Field, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, Sept. 20 — Nashville SC, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, Sept. 27 — FC Cincinnati, TQL Stadium, 2:30 p.m.

• Saturday, Oct. 4 — Columbus Crew, Inter&Co Stadium, 7:30 p.m.

• Saturday, Oct. 18 — Toronto FC, BMO Field, 6 p.m.