Season trivia for MLS 2025
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2025 MLS season in United States.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2025 season were the players Anders Dreyer - Hirving Lozano (San Diego FC), Tadeo Allende - Lionel Messi (Inter Miami) and Lionel Messi - Jordi Alba (Inter Miami). Together they scored 6 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2025 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Milan Iloski, playing for San Diego FC, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 9 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Vancouver Whitecaps FC-San Diego FC.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In September 2025, Denis Bouanga (Los Angeles FC) scored 9 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2025 season.
Most braces by player
Lionel Messi in Inter Miami scored (at least) two goals in a match twelve times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2025 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2025 season was Kévin Denkey in FC Cincinnati, in total he did it ten times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Lionel Messi in Inter Miami during the 2025 season, in total he did this eight times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2025 season was Denis Bouanga, in total he scored seven penalties for his Los Angeles FC.
Most penalty goals by team
Most goals from the penalty spot was a feat shared by two teams, and the teams that each scored nine penalty goals were Vancouver Whitecaps FC and Nashville SC.
Most own goals by player
three players share the less-than-honourable title of "most own goals" during the 2025 season in MLS. These players each scored two own goals and they were:
Most own goals by team
three teams each scored four own goals, and the teams that were best at putting the ball into their own net were New York City FC, Colorado Rapids and Seattle Sounders FC.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were three players who scored in 6 consecutive matches during the 2025 season, and the players who achieved this were:
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
The best streak of matches with an assist was 4 matches in the season 2025, a feat achieved byAnders Dreyer (San Diego FC) and Manu Garcia (Sporting Kansas City)
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
The players who were involved in goals in the most consecutive matches during the 2025 season were Lionel Messi (Inter Miami) and Idan Toklomati (Charlotte FC), with a streak of 7 matches in a row with at least one goal and/or assist.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Lionel Messi in Inter Miami who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 16 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Lionel Messi in Inter Miami scored a total of 19 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in MLS during the 2025 season.
Most consecutive wins
Charlotte FC was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2025 season, with a total of 9 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
The longest unbeaten streak belonged to Orlando City SC and Nashville SC, who had 12 consecutive matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2025 season, there were four teams that had 5 consecutive losses, and those teams were D.C. United, LA Galaxy, Charlotte FC and Sporting Kansas City.
Most matches in a row without a win
LA Galaxy managed the feat of not winning a single match in 16 consecutive matches during the 2025 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The teams that were best at trailing and then eventually winning the match were San Diego FC and New York City FC, and these teams turned the game around six times in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
St. Louis City SC, Real Salt Lake and Sporting Kansas City were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in five different matches during the 2025 season.