2024 Major League Rugby season

2024 Major League Rugby season
Countries	United States (12 teams)
Date	March 2 — August 4
Matches played	94
Attendance	16,115 (average 171 per match)
Official website
majorleague.rugby
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The 2024 Major League Rugby season is the seventh season of Major League Rugby, the professional rugby union competition sanctioned by USA Rugby. The regular season began on March 2, 2024, and lasted through June 29, 2024, with the Championship Series to follow.^[1]

The Miami Sharks and Anthem Rugby Carolina made their league debut this season, as well as Rugby Football Club Los Angeles following their move from Atlanta. The Toronto Arrows and Rugby New York withdrew from the league following the 2023 season.^[2][3] This leaves a total of 12 teams competing for the 2024 season.

Teams and format

Following the departure of Toronto and New York, the arrival of Miami and Charlotte, and the relocation of Atlanta to Los Angeles, the League had 12 teams for the 2024 season. As a result, Chicago was moved to the Eastern conference, ensuring both conferences had 6 teams each.

Conference	Club	Metro area	Stadium	Capacity	Coach	Captain
Western Conference	Dallas Jackals	Dallas, Texas	Choctaw Stadium	48,114	Agustín Cavalieri	Jerónimo Gómez Vara
	Houston SaberCats	Houston, Texas	SaberCats Stadium	4,000	Pote Human	Johan Momsen
	Rugby Football Club Los Angeles	Carson, California	Dignity Health Sports Park	27,000	Stephen Brett	Niall Saunders
	San Diego Legion	San Diego, California	Snapdragon Stadium	35,000	Danny Lee	Blair Cowan
	Seattle Seawolves	Seattle, Washington	Starfire Stadium	4,500	Allen Clarke	Riekert Hattingh
	Utah Warriors	Salt Lake City, Utah	Zions Bank Stadium	5,000	Greg Cooper	Bailey Wilson
Eastern Conference	Anthem Rugby Carolina	Charlotte, North Carolina	American Legion Memorial Stadium	10,500	Alama Ieremia	Jake Turnbull
	Chicago Hounds	Chicago, Illinois	SeatGeek Stadium	20,000	Sam Harris	Bill Meakes
	Miami Sharks	Fort Lauderdale, Florida	AutoNation Sports Field	1,500	José Pellicena	Tomás Cubelli
	New England Free Jacks	Boston, Massachusetts	Veterans Memorial Stadium	5,000	Scott Mathie	Josh Larsen
	New Orleans Gold	New Orleans, Louisiana	Gold Mine	10,000	Cory Brown	Moni Tongaʻuiha
	Old Glory DC	Washington, D.C.	Maryland SoccerPlex	5,000	Simon Cross	Jamason Faʻanana-Schultz

Regular season

The regular season will consist of 18 weeks, with each team playing 16 matches, beginning on March 2, 2024, and ending on June 29.

Standings

2024 MLR Eastern Conference ( view talk edit )
	Club	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TB	LB	Pts
1	New England Free Jacks	16	11	0	5	463	344	119	65	45	4	1	55
2	New Orleans Gold	16	10	0	6	410	349	61	58	47	3	1	50
3	Chicago Hounds	16	8	1	7	454	387	67	65	51	0	1	45
4	Old Glory DC	16	7	2	7	394	416	-22	50	57	3	1	42
5	Miami Sharks	16	6	0	10	335	389	-54	40	51	2	2	32
6	Anthem Rugby Carolina	16	0	0	16	323	676	-353	47	102	3	0	7
Tiebreakers If teams are level at any stage, tiebreaker criteria are as follows (coin tosses or draw of lots will be used if those below fail): number of matches won the difference between points for and points against the number of tries scored the most points scored the difference between tries for and tries against the fewest red cards received the fewest yellow cards received

2024 MLR Western Conference ( view talk edit )
	Club	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TF	TA	TB	LB	Pts
1	Houston SaberCats	16	14	0	2	478	347	131	66	47	5	0	67
2	Seattle Seawolves	16	11	0	5	498	373	125	63	49	4	1	57
3	San Diego Legion	16	11	0	5	421	374	47	51	45	4	2	55
4	Dallas Jackals	16	6	0	10	482	450	32	71	62	5	3	43
5	Utah Warriors	16	5	0	11	424	471	-47	60	67	4	3	35
6	RFC Los Angeles	16	5	1	10	367	473	-106	54	67	4	2	32
Tiebreakers If teams are level at any stage, tiebreaker criteria are as follows (coin tosses or draw of lots will be used if those below fail): number of matches won the difference between points for and points against the number of tries scored the most points scored the difference between tries for and tries against the fewest red cards received the fewest yellow cards received

Matches

The following are the match results for the 2024 Major League Rugby regular season:

Home \ Away	CAR	CHI	DAL	HOU	LA	MIA	NE	NO	DC	SD	SEA	UTA
Anthem Rugby Carolina		–	28–68	–	–	–	13–46	5–40	32–46
Chicago Hounds	59–26				54–31	–	17-22	–	–	–	26–34
Dallas Jackals		–		27–30	–			22-35	–	23–30	–	22–20
Houston SaberCats		–	–		–	30–19	35–47			33–0	–	22–15
Rugby Football Club Los Angeles			29–32	12–27		–	12–34	–		–	5–36	36-32
Miami Sharks	50-21	19–23	17–38				–	–	–	21–22		–
NE Free Jacks	–	–	–			25–3		27–21	34–35		21–29	–
New Orleans Gold	34–19	21–38		–		27–42	–		18–6		–	–
Old Glory DC	–	22–22		17–38	22–22	–	–	–		11-27
San Diego Legion	–		–	–	19–18		–	33–20			–	32–33
Seattle Seawolves	–		34–32	40-42	–	29–18			–	25–19		–
Utah Warriors	44–19	29–15	–	–	–				31–24	–	13–23

Updated to match(es) played on May 2, 2024
Colors: Blue: home team win; Yellow: draw; Red: away team win.

Scheduled matches

Championship Series

Conference Semi-Finals (July 20–21)

Conference Finals (July 27–28)

Championship final (August 4)

References