Our annual collection of post-mortems rolls on with the two Wild Card losers, Orlando City and Real Salt Lake .

You can find the Western Conference non-Audi MLS Cup Playoffs teams HERE , and the Eastern Conference ones HERE .

In we go, examining the seasons of the two teams with the longest continuous postseason streaks in MLS. Seriously, I bet you didn’t know that one!

Orlando City

2025 in a nutshell

For the first two-thirds of the season, they looked like one of the half-dozen best teams in the league. Part of that was Martín Ojeda playing at a Best XI clip, part of it was Luis Muriel finally looking like a DP, part of it was Pedro Gallese turning back the clock, and part of it was Alex Freeman being such a devastating attacking presence that head coach Óscar Pareja

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