Our annual collection of post-mortems rolls on with the collection of teams that made it to Game 3 in Round One of the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs, but no further.

You can find the Western Conference non-playoff teams HERE , the Eastern Conference non-playoff teams HERE , the Wild Card losers HERE , and the teams that got swept in Round One HERE .

Ok, in we go, examining the seasons of five teams that are spending this week thinking about what might have been.

Charlotte FC

2025 in a nutshell

They just about hit – or maybe even exceeded, with that 59-point regular-season – the expectations most people had laid out for them after a promising 2024 campaign. But even if the end was ultimately kind of predictable (another Round One exit), the way they got there definitely wasn’t.

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