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# 2025 MLS Season Previews, Day 1: Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati & Colorado
- URL: https://www.backheeled.com/mls-season-previews-atlanta-austin-charlotte-chicago-cincinnati-colorado/
- Published: 2025-02-17T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-19T13:01:23.000Z
- Description: With a new MLS season starting this weekend, we’re dropping in-depth previews for all 30 teams.
- Author: Backheeled Staff
- Tags: MLS

## Atlanta United

[Atlanta United 2025 MLS season previewWe’re taking you through Atlanta’s offseason action, hopes, fears, tactics & much more.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/icon/Backheeled-2-Sq-Light-123.png)BackheeledJoseph Lowery![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/thumbnail/atlanta_2025.jpg)](https://www.backheeled.com/atlanta-united-2025-mls-season-preview-transfers-tactics-stars-predictions/)

*After one of the most expensive offseasons in MLS history, can Atlanta United finally get back to their winning ways?*

## Austin FC

[Austin FC 2025 MLS season previewWe’re taking you through Austin’s offseason action, hopes, fears, tactics & much more.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/icon/Backheeled-2-Sq-Light-122.png)BackheeledJoseph Lowery![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/thumbnail/austinfc.jpg)](https://www.backheeled.com/austin-fc-2025-mls-season-preview-transfers-tactics-stars-predictions/)

*Austin have broken their club-record incoming transfer fee three times in the last two transfer windows. Will spending help them compete for trophies?*

## Charlotte FC

[Charlotte FC 2025 MLS season previewWe’re taking you through Charlotte’s offseason action, hopes, fears, tactics & much more.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/icon/Backheeled-2-Sq-Light-121.png)BackheeledJoseph Lowery![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/thumbnail/charlotte.jpg)](https://www.backheeled.com/charlotte-fc-2025-mls-season-preview-transfers-tactics-stars-predictions/)

*It's time for Dean Smith's second season in Charlotte. And this year? He has one of the most intriguing attacks in MLS.*

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## Chicago Fire

[Chicago Fire 2025 MLS season previewWe’re taking you through Chicago’s offseason action, hopes, fears, tactics & much more.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/icon/Backheeled-2-Sq-Light-120.png)BackheeledJoseph Lowery![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/thumbnail/chicago.jpg)](https://www.backheeled.com/chicago-fire-2025-mls-season-preview-transfers-tactics-stars-predictions/)

*Gregg Berhalter is back in MLS. Can he help lead the Chicago Fire back to their former glory?*

## FC Cincinnati

[FC Cincinnati 2025 MLS season previewWe’re taking you through Atlanta’s offseason action, hopes, fears, tactics & much more.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/icon/Backheeled-2-Sq-Light-119.png)BackheeledJoseph Lowery![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/thumbnail/cincinnati.jpg)](https://www.backheeled.com/fc-cincinnati-2025-mls-season-preview-transfers-tactics-stars-predictions/)

*Lucho Acosta, out. Evander, in. Even after losing the 2023 MLS MVP, Cincinnati's roster is one of the best in the league. Will that roster lead to a new trophy in the cabinet?*

## Colorado Rapids

[Colorado Rapids 2025 MLS season previewWe’re taking you through Atlanta’s offseason action, hopes, fears, tactics & much more.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/icon/Backheeled-2-Sq-Light-118.png)BackheeledJoseph Lowery![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/22/3c/223ce17d-3253-4d03-873b-ce236408cde2/content/images/thumbnail/coloradorapids.jpg)](https://www.backheeled.com/colorado-rapids-2025-mls-season-preview-transfers-tactics-stars-predictions/)

*Colorado made a handful of savvy offseason pickups. Did those moves help them close the gap with the best in the West?*