Editing Major League Soccer (section)

====Team names====
{{for-text|more information on MLS team names|the individual team entries}}

In the early years of MLS, teams were typically given official nicknames in the style of other U.S. sports leagues (e.g., [[Columbus Crew]], [[Los Angeles Galaxy]], [[New England Revolution]]). Several club names in MLS originated with previous professional soccer clubs, such as the 1970s-era [[North American Soccer League (1968–84)|NASL]] team names [[San Jose Earthquakes (1974–88)|San Jose Earthquakes]], [[Seattle Sounders (1974–83)|Seattle Sounders]], [[Portland Timbers (1975–82)|Portland Timbers]], and [[Vancouver Whitecaps (1974–84)|Vancouver Whitecaps]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Toye: Fans are delighted the old NASL names, Sounders, Timbers, Whitecaps and Quakes were saved |url=http://www.prostamerika.com/2012/09/24/toye-fans-are-delighted-the-old-nasl-names-sounders-timbers-whitecaps-and-quakes-were-saved/71346 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202155940/http://www.prostamerika.com/2012/09/24/toye-fans-are-delighted-the-old-nasl-names-sounders-timbers-whitecaps-and-quakes-were-saved/71346 |archive-date=February 2, 2014 |access-date=September 20, 2014}}</ref>

[[D.C. United]] was the only MLS team to adopt European naming conventions during the 1990s.<ref name="dc united name">{{Cite book |last=Dure |first=Beau |title=Long Range Goals: The Success Story of Major League Soccer |publisher=Potomac Books |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-59797-509-4 |location=Dulles, Virginia |pages=21–23}}</ref> In more recent years, European-style names have become increasingly common in MLS, with expansion teams such as [[Real Salt Lake]], [[Toronto FC]], [[New York City FC]], [[Atlanta United FC]], [[Minnesota United FC]], and [[FC Cincinnati]], along with rebrandings such as [[FC Dallas]] (formerly the Dallas Burn),<ref>{{cite news |last=Davis |first=Glenn |date=August 12, 2004 |title=On Soccer: Dallas Burn nickname about to become history |url=https://www.chron.com/sports/dynamo/article/on-soccer-dallas-burn-nickname-about-to-become-1974994.php |work=[[Houston Chronicle]] |accessdate=July 12, 2023 |archive-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713045533/https://www.chron.com/sports/dynamo/article/on-soccer-dallas-burn-nickname-about-to-become-1974994.php |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Sporting Kansas City]] (formerly the Kansas City Wizards),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Will the Kansas City Wizards become Sporting Kansas City? |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/blog/2010/11/will-the-kansas-city-wizards-become.html?page=all |date=November 16, 2010 |website=Kansas City Business Journal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822033753/http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/blog/2010/11/will-the-kansas-city-wizards-become.html?page=all |archive-date=August 22, 2014 |access-date=September 20, 2014}}</ref> and [[CF Montréal]] (formerly the Montreal Impact).

Austrian beverage company [[Red Bull GmbH]] owns and sponsors the [[New York Red Bulls]] as well as other sports teams outside the U.S.<ref name="nytimes.com" />