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Nashville SC's 2025 schedule released, including Decision Day game vs. Lionel Messi's Inter Miami
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Lionel Messi and Supporters Shield champion Inter Miami have booked its trip to Nashville for the upcoming season .
MLS released its 2025 schedule for all 30 teams on Thursday, which includes two conference matchups between Nashville SC and Inter Miami. Under first-year coach Javier Mascherano , Inter Miami will host NSC on July 12 (6:30 p.m. CT), before traveling to Nashville on Decision Day, Oct. 18, to close out the regular season.
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This will be NSC coach B.J. Callaghan's first full season in charge, after taking over from interim coach Rumba Munthali in July and leading Nashville to a 3-1-7 record to close out the season. Nashville finished the season 13th in the Eastern Conference, with 36 points and a 9-9-16 record.
Nashville opens the season against the New England Revolution on Feb. 22 at Geodis Park (7:30 p.m. CT). NSC will also travel out west to face Major League Soccer's newest expansion team, San Diego FC, on July 25 (9:30 p.m. CT).
The 2025 MLS regular season kicks off on Feb. 22 with 13 games, the first of which features Messi and Inter Miami hosting NYCFC . The regular season will close out with Decision Day, before the start of the MLS Cup Playoffs, the schedule for which will be released at a later date.
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The MLS All-Star Game will take place on July 23 at Q2 Stadium in Austin , with the opponent still to be announced. The All-Star Game will see a squad of top MLS players face off against a foreign opponent or against another league's all-stars.
The MLS will pause from June 14-25 to allow time for the FIFA Club World Cup and Concacaf Gold Cup, which are both being hosted by U.S. cities. Both Inter Miami and the Seattle Sounders will compete in the Club World Cup, which sees a new 32-team format this season.
Nashville and Geodis Park will play host to three Club World Cup group stage games . First a Group D match between León and ES Tunis on June 20 (5 p.m. CT), then a Group C match between Auckland City and Boca Juniors on June 24 (2 p.m. CT) and finally a Group H match between Neymar 's Al Hilal and Pachuca on June 26 (8 p.m. CT).
Nashville SC is scheduled to play at least three games on national television, the first of which is at the Philadelphia Union on March 16 (1 p.m. CT, FOX). Also being broadcasted nationally is an away trip to Atlanta United on May 3 (1:30 p.m. CT, FOX) and a May 28 matchup at the Columbus Crew (7 p.m. CT, FS1).
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Nashville SC schedule 2025
All MLS games in the 2025 regular season can be watched through MLS Season Pass on AppleTV, with select games set to be broadcasted nationally, as indicated below.
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February
Feb. 22:vs. New England Revolution; 7:30 p.m.
March
March 1:at New York Red Bulls ; 6:30 p.m.
March 8:vs. Portland Timbers ; 7:30 p.m.
March 16:at Philadelphia Union; 1:00 p.m., FOX
March 22:vs. CF Montreal ; 7:30 p.m.
March 29:vs. FC Cincinnati ; 7:30 p.m.
April
April 5:at Charlotte FC ; 1:30 p.m.
April 12:vs. Real Salt Lake ; 7:30 p.m.
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April 19:at Seattle Sounders; 6:30 p.m.
April 26:vs. Chicago Fire ; 7:30 p.m.
May
May 3:at Atlanta United; 1:30 p.m., FOX
May 10:vs. Charlotte FC; 7:30 p.m.
May 14:vs. New York Red Bulls; 7:30 p.m.
May 17:vs. DC United ; 7:30 p.m.
May 24:at Toronto FC ; 6:30 p.m.
May 28:at Columbus Crew; 7 p.m., FS1
May 31:vs. New York City FC; 3:30 p.m.
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June
June 14:at Chicago Fire; 7:30 p.m.
June 25:at New England Revolution; 6:30 p.m.
June 28:at DC United; 6:30 p.m.
July
July 5:vs. Philadelphia Union; 7:30 p.m.
July 12:at Inter Miami; 6:30 p.m.
July 16:vs. Columbus Crew; 7:30 p.m.
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July 19:vs. Toronto FC; 7:30 p.m.
July 25:at San Diego FC; 9:30 p.m.
August
Aug. 23:vs. Orlando City SC ; 7:30 p.m.
Aug. 30:vs. Atlanta United; 7:30 p.m.
September
Sept. 13:at FC Cincinatti; 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 20:at Orlando City SC; 6:30 p.m.
Sept. 27:vs. Houston Dynamo ; 7:30 p.m.
October
Oct. 4:at CF Montreal; 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 18:vs. Inter Miami; 5 p.m.
Harrison Campbell can be reached at hcampbell@gannett.com and follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @hccamp .
This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Nashville SC schedule released for 2025 MLS season
