MLS Team Names by Description

This team adopted their name from other top-flight clubs that played near this body of water in Seattle

This team's president dropped its French title for this English word because he wanted the team to affect this Canadian city and the local soccer community

After relocating from San Jose, this team's president believed this new name matched the its city's residents as "energetic, hard-working, risk-taking."

This team's name serves as a homage to the region's significant involvement during the American War for Independence

This 2009 expansion team is this Pacific Northwest city's fourth team to by this name that is a reference to the this city's history in the logging industry

This 2017 expansion team's name was chosen based on a survey of the team's supporters

This team's name was derived by this city being known as "Home to the Stars"

This team's name serves as a homage to its city history of manufacturing

This team's name is a reference to the 13 colonies coming together and this city serving as first capital of the United States

This team is named in memory of this urban conflagration that destroyed nearly 3.5 square miles of this city and killing roughly 300 residents

Initially called the Burn as a reference to the state's vast oil fields and hot temperature, in 2005, this club changed it's name to "FC" to coincide playing games at a new soccer-specific stadium

This club was initially know as the Wizards, but changed its name in 2010 to keep with trend of using European titles, though this club's use of the title came with some controversy

In 2006, this original team was named after its new owners, an energy drink company

This team revived the name of a former NASL team that played in the San Francisco Bay Area and acknowledged its stadium sits on a fault line

Joining the MLS in 2015, this Central Florida team found inspiration from a club in Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom

This original team's name found inspiration from English clubs and serves the setting of this country's federal district

The owner of this 2014 expansion team wanted his team's name to be "timeless"

This South Florida club's name is a Spanish homage to the city's ethnically diverse population

To the dismay of locals, this Carolina club relied on the European tradition as recognition that soccer is a global game

This team's name is a reference to the snow-packed North Shore Mountains in this Pacific Northwest city

In 2004, this owner gave his team a royal title in hopes to form a partnership with a top La Liga team from Madrid

The ownership group of this Ohio-based expansion team settled on a name that would take hold regionally and globally

This original team's name is a reference to the vast waterways found throughout the Rocky Mountains and river basin

The ownership group of this 2007 Canadian expansion team chose this name due to overwhelming fan support for the European conventional initialism

This team's name is inspired by its goal to bring these twin cities together

This capital club got its name as ownership determined that initials pay respect to the sport that is enjoyed across the globe

This club was named by its ownership group as a homage their English Premier League team in Manchester

This 2017 expansion team got its name from fan survey that supported keeping the European conventional name