Overview
- Kickoff is Saturday, December 6, at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale with coverage on MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.
- Inter Miami earned home field by finishing with 65 points to Vancouver’s 63, and hosts have won 11 of the past 14 MLS finals.
- Lionel Messi enters after winning the MLS Golden Boot with 29 goals in 28 matches and Miami has outscored foes 13-1 in three do-or-die playoff games.
- Since Thomas Müller’s August arrival, Vancouver has lost just once in 16 matches and previously eliminated Miami 5-1 on aggregate in April’s Concacaf semifinals.
- If Vancouver wins, Müller would be the first player to claim both a World Cup and MLS Cup; if Miami triumphs, Messi, Rodrigo De Paul and Sergio Busquets would become the first trio to achieve that double.