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Denis Bouanga scored on a penalty kick in the first half and Cristian Olivera scored early in the second to lead Western Conference regular-season champion Los Angeles FC to a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps on Sunday night in a best-of-three first-round series for the MLS Cup. LAFC took a 1-0 lead in the 30th minute on the PK...

Marlon Santos scored his first MLS goal in stoppage time Saturday night to help Los Angeles FC beat the San Jose Earthquakes 3-1 in the regular season finale for both teams. LAFC (19-8-7), which is tied with the LA Galaxy atop the Western Conference with 64 points, earned the No. 1 seed in the playoffs based on goal differential —…

Playing in their fifth final in the last two years, LAFC snapped their four-game losing streak in title games with a 3-1 victory in extra time over Sporting Kansas City in the 2024 U.S. Open Cup Final.

Dejan Joveljic scored two of the LA Galaxy’s four goals in the second half as they rallied from a two-goal halftime deficit for a 4-2 victory over Los Angeles FC in another thrilling edition of the El Tráfico rivalry Saturday night. Joveljic put the Galaxy ahead 3-2 in the 67th minute with a backheel goal, completing a flurry of...

Southern California’s fiercest soccer rivalry returns this Fourth of July, as the LA Galaxy and LAFC clash at the iconic Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena. With both teams riding high in the Western Conference, the next chapter in the El Tráfico rivalry promises fireworks both on and off the field. Both teams enter the match as the class of...

Cucho Hernandez scored a brace to help the Crew beat LAFC 3-1 in the 2024 Leagues Cup Final Sunday for the team’s first triumph in the tournament.

Remember that scene in Rocky II where Apollo Creed tries to goad a recently retired Rocky Balboa to give him a rematch? Well, as Creed learned, be careful what you wish for. For eight long months, the Los Angeles Football Club has been fixated on their loss to the Columbus Crew at Lower.com Field in the 2023 MLS Cup Final…

Less than two weeks removed from their titillating El Trafico showdown at the Rose Bowl, Major League Soccer’s two LA-based teams are going back in time with a modern twist. Both the LA Galaxy and LAFC debuted their new Retrograde Kits during their home matches on Wednesday. Both jerseys pay homage to the past while forging a path toward...

Kei Kamara and Denis Bouanga scored four minutes apart late in the first half, and Los Angeles Football Club beat the LA Galaxy 2-1 on Thursday night in front of 70,076 at the Rose Bowl in a matchup of the top two teams in the Western Conference. It was the second-largest crowd in MLS this season, surpassed only by the…

Southern California’s fiercest soccer rivalry returns this Fourth of July, as the LA Galaxy and LAFC clash at the iconic Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena. With both teams riding high in the Western Conference, the next chapter in the El Tráfico rivalry promises fireworks both on and off the field. Both teams enter the match as the class of...

Olivier Giroud, France’s prolific goal scorer and a stalwart of European football, has sealed a deal to join Los Angeles FC (LAFC) in Major League Soccer this upcoming summer, as confirmed by sources close to the player on Tuesday. The 37-year-old, whose tenure with Italian giants AC Milan concludes at the season’s end, has inked an 18-month agreement with...

Denis Bouanga scored two goals, his second multi-goal game this season, to help Los Angeles FC rally from an early deficit for a 2-2 tie with the New York Red Bulls on Saturday night. Bouanga ripped a right-footer from the left corner of the penalty area into the back of the net to cap the scoring in the fifth minute…

Another chapter was written on Saturday in the Los Angeles soccer rivalry known as “El Trafico.” In a pulsating clash between two MLS titans, it was LAFC that emerged triumphant over their rivals, the LA Galaxy, in a thrilling 2-1 finish that handed Los Galácticos their first loss of the season. The match unfolded underneath the vibrant lights of...

The man who scored the most goals in Major League Soccer last season had never gone more than five games without a goal. Thankfully, that still holds true. LAFC forward Denis Bouanga did not score through the team’s first four games of the season, but he made up for lost time on Saturday night. Bouanga opened his 2024 account with…

The last time Hugo Lloris kept a clean sheet was over a year ago against treble champion Manchester City. The longtime Tottenham goalkeeper did it again on Saturday night, only this time from across the pond. Lloris made six saves as LAFC bounced back from a 3-0 loss last week in Salt Lake City with a 0-0 draw at home…

Hugo Lloris made seven saves and won his Major League Soccer debut, leading Los Angeles FC to a 2-1 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Saturday. Timothy Tillman and Mateusz Bogusz scored for LAFC, which began its drive for a third straight MLS Cup Final appearance after winning the league’s postseason title in 2022 and reaching the Final again last…

The price of being a sports fan can range from penny-pinching to opulence. On the eve of Major League Soccer’s 2024 Opening Night, a brand-new index study reveals the cheapest and most expensive soccer teams to be a fan of.

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Press pause on the Drake song, there will be no back-to-back titles for LAFC. The 28th MLS season ended with a rainstorm, as the Columbus Crew defeated the defending champion LAFC, 2-1, on Saturday night at the Historic Crew Stadium in Ohio. In a historic MLS season that saw the greatest soccer player of all-time join the league, the Crew…

“To be the champ, you’ve got to beat the champ,” former Mixed Martial Artists Mark Hunt once said. That will now be the daunting task for the Columbus Crew after reigning Champions LAFC secured a 2-0 victory over the Houston Dynamo during the Western Conference Final on Saturday night in Los Angeles. Columbus will host the MLS Cup Final...