Modern YORK (Wednesday, October 2, 2024)– For the to begin with time in club history, Associate Miami CF have won the Supporters’ Shield, an grant given to the MLS group with the best generally customary season record by the supporters. Miami clinched the trophy this evening by vanquishing the Columbus Group, 3-2, much obliged to two objectives from Lionel Messi and an objective from Luis Suárez. Messi scored in the 45th miniature with a slight touch past the goalkeeper (Observe Here) sometime recently including his moment in first-half stoppage time with an electrifying free kick (Observe Here). After Columbus scored rapidly after halftime, Suárez reestablished the two-goal advantage in the 48th miniature (Observe Here) as Miami held on to the 3-2 win much obliged to a punishment kick spare by Drake Calendar with six minutes remaining (Observe Here).
Photo and video resources of Connect Miami’s season and tonight’s coordinate can be found **HERE**.
With the award, the Herons have clinched the best seed in the Eastern Conference and home-field advantage all through the Audi 2024 MLS Glass Playoffs. As the Supporters’ Shield victors, Connect Miami will compete in the 2025 Concacaf Champions Container, stamping the second-straight season they will take part in the competition.
Miami will have a playoff amusement for the to begin with time in club history when they confront the champ of the Audi 2024 MLS Glass Playoffs Eastern Conference Wild Card coordinate between the No. 8 and No. 9 seeds in the Circular One Best-of-3 Arrangement. Miami will have the to begin with diversion of the arrangement and the third, if vital, at Chase Stadium, and their adversary will have the moment diversion of the arrangement The full Audi 2024 MLS Glass Playoffs plan will be reported at a afterward date.
Debuting in MLS in 2020, Associate Miami is presently the 17th diverse club in the league’s 29 seasons to win the Supporters’ Shield, and as it were the 6th dynamic club to win it inside their to begin with five seasons in MLS. Since growing the customary season to 34 recreations in 2011, Miami is as it were the third group to win the Supporters’ Shield after lost the playoffs in the past season, joining LAFC in 2022 and the San Jose Seismic tremors in 2012.
In his moment year at the steerage, head coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino has driven Associate Miami to a 20-4-8 record with a plus-25 objective differential. The Supporters’ Shield marks Martino’s ninth trophy as a director in club soccer and fourth as an MLS head coach. After today’s matches, Martino holds a .655 winning rate (60-25-28 record) in the standard season, which is the most elevated winning rate by a coach in MLS history (least 20 diversions coached).
Over the course of the season, Miami exceeded expectations when they were trailing or in near diversions. In the 16 recreations that Miami conceded the opening objective, they overseen to deliver a .625 winning rate (8-4-4 record), which is the best check in the alliance. As it were one other club has won five such diversions this season and no other group has a winning rate over .500. Miami is moreover the moment group in MLS history to win at slightest eight diversions when conceding the to begin with objective of the coordinate (barring the shootout period). In one-goal diversions, the Herons have delivered a 9-1-0 record, which is the best winning rate (.900) in MLS this season.
Miami’s assault in 2024 has been driven by their whiz forward twosome of Lionel Messi (17 objectives, 15 helps) and Luis Suárez (18 objectives, six helps). Among the pioneers in objectives per 90 minutes this season (min. five objectives), Messi positions to begin with at 1.01 objectives per 90 minutes and Suárez sits third at 0.89. The twosome created a few person standout minutes en course to the Supporters’ Shield as they got to be the to begin with match of colleagues in MLS history to win MLS Player of the Matchday respects at slightest three times each in a single season. The Supporters’ Shield marks Messi’s 46th diverse major career trophy and third since joining Connect Miami CF final summer (Associations Glass 2023 and 2024 Copa América).
The club too had steady execution all through the standard season from standouts counting MLS All-Stars Jordi Alba (four objectives, 12 helps) and Sergio Busquets (seven helps), two-time MLS Container winner Julian Gressel (12 helps), and youthful rising stars Tomás Avilés, Benjamin Cremaschi, Diego Gómez, and Federico Redondo. To date, the Herons have had 30 players see activity in the standard season with 15 of those getting on the score sheet. In net, Drake Callender begun 31 of the 32 customary season matches, making 98 spares and including five shutouts.
Miami can set the MLS single-season focuses record (73 in 2021, Unused Britain Transformation) with wins in their remaining two games:
- Saturday, October 5 at Toronto FC (4 p.m. ET, MLS Season Pass on Apple TV)
- Saturday, October 19 vs. Unused Britain Insurgency (6 p.m. ET, MLS Season Pass on Apple TV)
Below is the list of all-time Supporters’ Shield victors, as sorted in switch chronological arrange.
MLS Supporters’ Shield Winners
| Season | Club | Points | Points per Game (ppg) |
| 2024 | Inter Miami CF | 68 points* | 2.13 ppg* |
| 2023 | FC Cincinnati | 69 points | 2.03 ppg |
| 2022 | LAFC | 67 points | 1.97 ppg |
| 2021 | New England Revolution | 73 points | 2.15 ppg |
| 2020 | Philadelphia Union | 47 points | 2.04 ppg |
| 2019 | LAFC | 72 points | 2.12 ppg |
| 2018 | New York Red Bulls | 71 points | 2.09 ppg |
| 2017 | Toronto FC | 69 points | 2.03 ppg |
| 2016 | FC Dallas | 60 points | 1.76 ppg |
| 2015 | New York Red Bulls | 60 points | 1.76 ppg |
| 2014 | Seattle Sounders FC | 64 points | 1.88 ppg |
| 2013 | New York Red Bulls | 59 points | 1.74 ppg |
| 2012 | San Jose Earthquakes | 66 points | 1.94 ppg |
| 2011 | LA Galaxy | 67 points | 1.97 ppg |
| 2010 | LA Galaxy | 59 points | 1.97 ppg |
| 2009 | Columbus Crew | 49 points | 1.63 ppg |
| 2008 | Columbus Crew | 57 points | 1.90 ppg |
| 2007 | D.C. United | 55 points | 1.83 ppg |
| 2006 | D.C. United | 55 points | 1.72 ppg |
| 2005 | San Jose Earthquakes | 64 points | 2.00 ppg |
| 2004 | Columbus Crew | 49 points | 1.63 ppg |
| 2003 | Chicago Fire | 53 points | 1.77 ppg |
| 2002 | LA Galaxy | 51 points | 1.82 ppg |
| 2001 | Miami Fusion | 53 points | 2.04 ppg |
| 2000 | Kansas City Wizards | 57 points | 1.78 ppg |
| 1999 | D.C. United | 57 points | 1.78 ppg |
| 1998 | LA Galaxy | 68 points | 2.12 ppg |
| 1997 | D.C. United | 55 points | 1.72 ppg |
| 1996 | Tampa Bay Mutiny | 58 points | 1.81 ppg |
*Inter Miami CF still has two games remaining in the 2024 regular season.
