Vancouver Whitecaps

Look at the MLS playoff field long enough and you can make a case that all 16 teams have what it takes to be contenders -- or that they're pretenders.

As Truro prepare to make the longest round trip for a professional league match in English football history, here's a look at the furthest that teams have to travel every season.

- Daniel Ríos found the net in the first half, Thomas Müller and Kenji Cabrera scored in the second and the Vancouver Whitecaps blanked FC Dallas 3-0 on Sunday in a best-of-three first-round opener of the MLS Cup playoffs.

Thomas Müller scores penalty as Vancouver cruise in Game 1

Now that the Wild Card games are over with, the MLS postseason moves into the best-of-three Round 1. Who will move on? ESPN makes its predictions.

The regular season is in the rearview mirror and the playoffs are upon us, so which postseason contenders are best placed for a run to MLS Cup?

The Whitecaps come back to beat Orlando City thanks to this stooage time winner by Thomas Muller.

After clinching the Supporters' Shield, there can be no question who's on top of ESPN's MLS Power Rankings: the Philadelphia Union.

Sebastian Berhalter had two goals and an assist, Rayan Elloumi and Thomas Müller each added a goal, and the Vancouver Whitecaps in a 2-0 win over the San Jose Earthquakes on Sunday.

Son Heung-Min and Denis Bouanga are dragging LAFC up the Western Conference table as well as the order in ESPN's MLS Power Rankings.