{"id":875549,"date":"2025-10-05T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/how-philadelphia-union-can-win-the-supporters-shield-this-weekend-mlssoccer-com\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T22:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:21:26","slug":"how-philadelphia-union-can-win-the-supporters-shield-this-weekend-mlssoccer-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/how-philadelphia-union-can-win-the-supporters-shield-this-weekend-mlssoccer-com\/","title":{"rendered":"How Philadelphia Union can win the Supporters&#8217; Shield this weekend | MLSSoccer.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/philadelphia-union\/\">Philadelphia Union<\/a> can lift the 2025 Supporters&#8217; Shield on Saturday when they host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/new-york-city-football-club\/\">New York City FC<\/a> at Subaru Park (7:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/philadelphia-union-vs-new-york-city-football-club\/umc.cse.1oyowyd3n5l42o2z0f2o2t97r?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000\">MLS Season Pass<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In their first season under head coach Bradley Carnell, Philadelphia are four points ahead with two games remaining (63 points; 19W-7L-6D). The club also won the Shield in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the Supporters&#8217; Shield is awarded to the team with the most regular-season points. The Shield winner also gets hosting priority for MLS Cup presented by Audi on Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Philadelphia <strong>will<\/strong> <strong>clinch the Supporters&#8217; Shield<\/strong> if:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>\u2705 Philadelphia win vs. New York City <strong>or&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u274c Philadelphia draw vs. New York City <strong>AND<\/strong> Miami lose\/draw vs. New England <strong>AND<\/strong> Cincinnati lose\/draw at New York <strong>AND<\/strong> Vancouver lose\/draw vs. San Jose <strong>AND<\/strong> LAFC lose\/draw vs. Atlanta <strong>or&#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u274c Miami lose\/draw vs. New England <strong>AND<\/strong> Cincinnati lose at New York <strong>AND<\/strong> San Diego lose\/draw at Houston <strong>AND<\/strong> Vancouver lose vs. San Jose <strong>AND<\/strong> LAFC lose\/draw vs. Atlanta<\/li>\n<\/ol><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2025\/matches\/phivsnyc-10-04-2025\/\">beat New York City<\/a> and won the Supporters&#8217; Shield.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Carnell ahead of Saturday&#8217;s match vs. New York City<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve always come up with narratives of, can we stay the hunters, as opposed to the hunted? We&#8217;ve always come up with different ways to push the season where it hasn&#8217;t felt comfortable, even though we were always in a comfortable position. There&#8217;s never been a bit of comfort in these walls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s always been some added driving initiatives to keep the competition, to keep it humble, to keep it on the ground and just moving one step at a time &#8230; So why change anything now? There&#8217;s another three points on the line, and it&#8217;s massive if we can get that, and it&#8217;ll be awesome. But trying to filter out the noise, and just to continue what we do, that&#8217;s been the whole sort of driving factor this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/how-philadelphia-union-can-clinch-supporters-shield-mls-2025-title\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Qiana Stoval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer The Philadelphia Union can lift the 2025 Supporters&#8217; Shield on Saturday when they host New York City FC at Subaru Park (7:30 pm ET | MLS Season Pass). In their first season under head coach Bradley Carnell, Philadelphia are four points ahead with two games remaining (63 points; 19W-7L-6D). The club also won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":875550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,2005,1668],"tags":[8547,8336],"class_list":{"0":"post-875549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-union","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-union"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}