Soccer
Complete coverage of Minnesota United, Minnesota Aurora, the MLS and World Cup soccer. Latest scores, player stats, schedule, standings, game highlights and sports commentary from the Star Tribune.
Loons
Toye remains a Loons starter through recent scoring slump
Mason Toye started his seventh consecutive game Wednesday against while Abu Danladi was a substitute and veteran Angelo Rodriguez and newcomer Thomas Chacon again didn't get called.
Loons
Loons can clinch playoff berth tonight, but coach insists 'it's not easy'
Could this set up as one of those "trap" games, when everything looks to set up beautifully for a team, only to have something unexpected go wrong?
Loons
![Loons fans sang "Wonderwall" after their team's win Sunday afternoon. ] JEFF WHEELER • jeff.wheeler@startribune.com Minnesota United defeated R](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/3GAQADCLAK7DO5NZ2HNOQ7HLC4.jpg?h=91&w=145&fit=crop&bg=999&crop=faces)
Win and they're in: Loons can clinch first MLS playoff berth tonight
Minnesota United can make team history by beating Sporting Kansas City tonight at Allianz Field. A few other outcomes around the league tonight could also get the team through.
Loons
Calmness with class: Loons' Olum plays team DJ, too
An illness and a player suspension put versatile center back Lawrence Olum on the field Sunday and he could play again Wednesday as the Loons try to clinch a playoff spot.
Loons
Gameday preview: Sporting Kansas City vs. Minnesota United
SKC comes to Allianz Field for a second time this season on a three-game losing streak.
Loons
United hopeful Ike Opara, Kevin Molino will play Wednesday with a playoff spot in reach
United veteran Vito Mannone named goalkeeper on MLS Team of the Week for his 12 saves and 11th shutout Sunday in Portland.
Loons
Drawing it out: Scoreless tie means Loons don't make history
United's next chance to clinch its first MLS playoff spot will come Wednesday, when the Loons host Sporting Kansas City at Allianz Field.
Loons
Dazzling or flat, mystifying Minnesota United knows it can play
A playoff berth is now a victory away, but the Loons still needs to avoid inexcusable lapses.
Loons
Gameday preview: Minnesota United at Portland
The rewards are there for the taking for a Loons team looking for its first MLS playoff berth.
Loons
Minnesota United's Mason Toye, Hassani Dotson have hopes to compete in 2020 Olympics
The two Loons players have boosted their chances to play for the United States next year in Tokyo, if the Americans can make it.
Loons
Minnesota United can clinch playoff berth Sunday with a win, help
The Loons need to beat Portland and have either San Jose or Dallas lose.
Loons
Top-heavy English soccer not healthy for the game
The reaction to injury-ravaged Norwich City's recent upset of perennial power Manchester City underscores why the league's concentration of power is, long-term, bad for soccer.
Loons
Kallman says he's 'paying the consequences' with 10-game MLS suspension
Major League Soccer has suspended Minnesota United veteran defender Brent Kallman for 10 games for violating the league's substance-abuse policy.
Loons
Metanire, back from national team, provides Loons a spark
Romain Metanire made the hustle play that saved the ball along the sideline and created Darwin Quintero's eventual winning goal early in the second half.
Loons
Third-place Loons complete, healthy and with week to prepare for Portland
With his team back complete and healthy and no mid-week game scheduled, United coach Adrian Heath calls this week a time to "actually prepare and get some work done on the training field."
Loons
Quintero scores twice, Loons pick up three points with win over RSL
Sunday's scores were Darwin Quintero's team-leading ninth and 10th goals in MLS play and both came after Quintero displayed composure by controlling the ball with his dribble.
Loons
Quintero returns to Loons, Gasper suspended today vs Real Salt Lake
Minnesota United can move past Real Salt Lake and back into second place with today's game at Allianz Field that has all kinds of playoff implications.
Loons
Loons rookie St. Clair embodies 'sweeper keepers' redefining soccer
At 22, Dayne St. Clair is from a generation that never has known a time when goalkeepers used their hands to play a ball passed back to them by a teammate.
Loons
Gameday preview: Real Salt Lake vs. Minnesota United
Playoff implications are on the line. Only one point separates second-place Real Salt Lake and the fourth-place Loons
Loons
MLS West remains tight squeeze for Loons, everyone else
Once in second place, United — and every team around it — is in danger of missing the playoffs by the time "Decision Day" and the regular-season finale on Oct. 6.
Browse Sports Sections
Connect with Star Tribune Sports
Around the Region
- Bayer Leverkusen's record unbeaten march continues with a 2-0 win at Roma in Europa League
- Iraq qualifies for Paris Olympics men's soccer tournament with win over Indonesia at U23 Asian Cup
- Tim Howard, last in line of top American goalkeepers, enters U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame
- Soccer jersey dispute between Algeria and Morocco clubs over Western Sahara goes to sports court
- Champions League is being expanded and EPL teams have failed to take advantage
- Füllkrug fires Dortmund to 1-0 win over Mbappé's PSG in Champions League semifinal first leg
- PSG defender Lucas Hernández injured in Champions League semifinal first leg at Dortmund
- Mbappé leads full-strength PSG at Dortmund in Champions League semifinal
- Retired U.S. soccer star Carli Lloyd announces she and her husband are expecting baby in October
- Wrexham owners Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney want to expand stadium capacity to 55,000
Most Read
- Even if Reynoso returns to Loons, his old role has disappeared
- Loons coach shows he isn't afraid to mix things up — and it's working
- Twenty years after big save, Scurry sees progress in social equality
- History repeats as Loons fall to Kansas City
- Loons fall short in 2-1 loss to Austin despite furious final-minutes attack
