MLS stats including leaders in goals, assists, yellow and red cards

As of 2024, Landon Donovan had made more assists than any other player in MLS history, with a total of 136. This was one more than the player with the second-most assists, Steve Ralston.

As of 2024, Chris Wondolowski had scored more goals than any other MLS player, with a career total of 171. Meanwhile, Landon Donovan scored a total of 145 goals.

Lionel Messi was the highest-paid MLS player in 2025, earning over 20 million U.S. dollars per year. Toronto FC's Lorenzo Insigne ranked second, with a guaranteed annual income of over 15 million U.S. dollars.

As of 2024, the LA Galaxy had won the MLS Cup more times than any other team, with six titles in total. Meanwhile, D.C. United has lifted the trophy on four occasions.

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In 2024, the most valuable MLS team was Los Angeles FC, with the club being worth an estimated 1.2 billion U.S. dollars. Meanwhile, Inter Miami ranked in second place, with a value of just over one billion U.S. dollars.

The National Football League (NFL) was the most watched sports league in the United States in 2023. Viewers watched a combined 974.7 billion minutes of football action across the 284 televised games between November 2022 and November 2023. Meanwhile, Major League Baseball (MLB) ranked second with a little less than 330 billion combined minutes from viewers.

How much does a Super Bowl ad cost?

The price of running an ad during the Super Bowl has tripled over the past two decades. In 2024, advertisers paid an average of seven million U.S. dollars to air a 30-second commercial during the Super Bowl LVI broadcast. The renowned sporting event is highly anticipated each year and is watched by millions around the world. In the U.S., the 2024 edition of the Super Bowl was watched by over 123 million Americans.

How many people watch the World Series?

Unlike the Super Bowl, MLB World Series TV viewership experienced an overall decrease over the past two decades. The games of the 2023 World Series, in which the Texas Rangers achieved a five-game series win over the Arizona Diamondbacks, were watched by around nine million viewers. This shows a considerable drop from the previous year, when nearly 12 million people tuned in to see the Houston Astros win the Commissioner’s Trophy.

With each player taking home a handsome 8.32 million U.S. dollars every year, the NBA is the professional sports league with the highest player wages worldwide. In second place is the Indian Premier League, an annual cricket competition contested each year between eight franchises representing eight different Indian cities.

Big money in the NBA Although the wages that players in the NBA take home are astronomical, the average annual salaries vary from one team to another. Whilst the New York Knicks pay their players an average of 7.08 million U.S. dollars a year, Portland Trail Blazers spent around 10.04 million U.S. dollars annually on each of their stars in 2019/20. NBA salaries have tremendously increased throughout the years reaching 8.32 million U.S. dollars in 2019/20 compared to 4.6 million U.S. dollars in 2015/16.