I'm not really a big MLS fan even though I live in Canada but the thought occured to me that if UEFA wants football to grow in North America that maybe they might try inluding a couple of the top teams from the MLS. I'm not entirely sure how it would unfold in regards to how many teams and how it would affect Europes top teams in qualifying for the tournament but I think this question has some legitimacy. Now I know that this question is going to recieve love and hate from footytubers but I will let the answer be up to you

No.

Maybe in the world club cup or something, but heres why.

1. UEFA is the european organization, north america is like a sort of separate jurisdiction.
2. The skill level is not there. The mls is filled with players who never made it into europe, or couldn't play in europe anymore. Perhaps an all-star team of mls players could survive in the europa league.
3. If mls teams could play in Europe, why not south american, asian, and african teams?

I do agree that it would help the mls leaps and bounds if they had more interaction around the world. The preseason game between real madrid and TFC was unreal. Christiano Ronaldo, playing in toronto! Who'd have thought it!

Well the biggest issue all the clubs would have is so much traveling and all the games wouldn't start the same time because timings are different everywhere. Plus Europeans teams are much more competitive than MLS. You already have clubs complaining when they go to Turkey or Russia and if you go to the US for a game on Wednesday, your going to be traveling for almost an entire day and will arrive back late on Thursday, your going to be jet lagged till Friday and then you have to start on Saturday in the morning. Would be very very tough

No offense, but this is perhaps one of the silliest questions that I read on footytube haha its the UEFA champions league so only European clubs should take part. The MLS are in concacaf, and take part in their champions league. Every region has there own champions league so why should the MLS be included in UEFA's? The MLS would get destroyed anyway, and it would be very embarrassing. No thanks. If the MLS want to play against a big European team then they need a team to win their tournament then go play them in the club world cup

What would people think about this idea:

We already have a world cup every four years (2010, 2014). We already have European (regional) championships in the years between (2012), hows about between those years (eg 2011, 2013), in the summertime, there is a tournament where each team that won their league from perhaps the top 8 or 16 footballing nations (England, Spain, Italy, Germany, etc) goes into a club-based world cup. Kind of like an International Champions League played in the off season? Man United, Barca, Wolfsburg

I know we have similar things running now, like the "World club championship" but it is a total joke of a tournament and something any team should be embarrassed to enter.

Would this be too many games for a player?

Should chelsea61 be checked for any sort of brain matter?

Sorry but No!  Uefa = Europe, not North America...

MLS have their own version of champions league.... If they cannot dominate that then what's the point of even attempting to play in UEFA champions league.... If they truly want to be up against the best they can get their opportunity in the annual World Club Cup in Japan

UEFA stands for Union of European Football Associations, MLS stands for Major League Soccer, they don't even call it football, I don't think the MLS would fit in haha. Besides, like other people have said there is a concacaf Champions League and MLS teams rarely even win that, they are usually knocked off by teams from La Liga Mexicana

No I agree with everyone else. It would be kind of weird. Plus yeah it is for Europe so it really wouldn't make sense but men.... Some people don't have to be so mean about it

I think everyone hit the nail on the head with this one.
1. Impractical - flights will be ridiculous and pretty expensive when everything adds up
2. UEFA - Union of European Football Associations, so having a concacaf team to play in that defeats its purpose.... That's why there is a concacaf Champions League.
3. If hypothetically, UEFA allows MLS to play in the UEFA Champions League, then the other Federations like conmebol (South America) and AFC (Asia) among others will want to join even though they already have the Copa Libertadores and Asian Champions League.
4. Even if MLS teams were allowed, they would get whooped on for a lack of better words
5. MLS wouldn't generate a big enough increase revenue for UEFA compared to the costs of including them for them to accept it.
6. I will guarantee that none of us will see an MLS team in the UEFA Champions League during our lifetime in its current format. The World Club Cup will probably be the only competition that will include all the Federations under FIFA for the time being.
7. Similar argument as my 3rd point, but you aren't going to have the USA competing at EURO 2012 or whatever year because USA has its own federation. That's why they play in the Gold Cup and Copa America sometimes.

Sorry Chelsea61, this question was meant to get you ridiculed sorta

I knew before I posted that this topic was a loaded question. The reason I asked was more to pick the brains of fellow footytubers. Beleive me I know that the logistics of having teams from all over the world compete is impractical to say the least. The subject has certainly stirred up some interesting comments though

That would be really weird to have MlS included in the UEFA champions league.... It just not belongs there

I think definately not, it is a european competition, it makes no sense to fly half way round the world to play one game. The way that mls teams can compete against european teams is in the club world championship at the end of every season. I think that this tournement should become bigger and include more teams, it would make participating alot more worthy if there were loads of teams in it. At the moment there is only like 8-10 teams who participate.
But yeah, no mls in the uefa(european) champions league it just wouldnt make sense

Mr. Chelsea61,

Even though you make a very valid point in saying that the addition of MLS teams to the UEFA would give the league a boost, I still don't agree with the fact that they should just be given free opportunities to the cup for many reasons.

The more obvious reason, and less important one, is that this competition is strictly a European competition. This leads me to the main reason: if you are going to add more teams from other continents, I can think of atleast 5 other country leagues outside Europe that offer much better and more competitive football and definitely deserve a spot more than MLS teams. Simply put, MLS shouldn't just get a free pass to the UEFA just so they can get better.

Finally, it is entirely up to the MLS and MLS team owners to revive the sport in north America, it is not the European soccer's duty. I live in Canada as well, and I would LOVE to see the MLS and football become a popular sport here