Over the existence of the league there has been a lot of critics of the soccer league from many coaches and journalists around the world. We are now going to take a peek at the league as a business system and think about individual Low Cost Franchises that create the foundation of the league system. No matter what your opinion is of the league it has been a reasonably profitable in modern times and is progressing to expand each year with different Franchises waiting to signup to the league. The league was formed in 1993 as the foundation for the following years world cup finals, this was a guarantee that was given to FIFA if the country was awarded the world cup finals. It was considered that soccer would grow progressively as it has massive battles with more traditional sports in the US sporting arena, but this league would give it a stiff base of where to open. Every team began as Franchises For Sale prospects around the states of America, large quantities of investment was given by local groups and businesses to buy the Low Cost Franchises underway and to create a Home Based Franchise for each main city.

The first match kicked off in 1996 and the league included a small ten Home Based Franchise that were acquired by local groups and businesses as Franchise For Sale prospects. The attendances for the matches were a higher than average and the common outlook was respectable. But, at the beginning, the league never truly exploded and the player quality was comparatively weak, this coupled with the teams not being competitive with each other slowly put pay to turnout attendances. A Home Based Franchise would find it difficult with the long distances travelled and expenses that the MLS had at the start, so the Low Cost Franchises declined over this time.

After the 2002 world cup finals where the USA team go to the quarter-final phase there was a an increase in the reputation of soccer. There was a new leader in control of building the league into a key market for the Low Cost Franchises and under this system the league began to attract top players from around the soccer world.

The player quality on the pitch still remains lower than the average found at a top European club but the amount of top players that are now in the league, whether it be for the money or career choices, is getting better. Franchise For Sale in Toronto is now available and this enlarged the MLS appeal to Canada, where soccer is more recognised.

We will now peek at the Philadelphia Union team and how it has progressed since it’s creation to become a recognised Low Cost Franchises in the MLS.

Major League Soccer's newest expansion club are the Philadelphia Union, the 16th club to join the US and Canada-based league. Union are the first Pennsylvania-based club to join the league and the first major professional soccer club in Philadelphia since the 1980 fall of the Philadelphia Fury of the NASL.

The Philadelphia Union name pays praise to the central significance of the city of Philadelphia in the beginning of the United States, the "union" of 13 formerly British colonies. Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the Nations founding papers, were created in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia Union's prime colours of navy blue and gold pay compliments to the similarly-coloured Continental Army of the United States. The light blue is an affirmation both to the city of Philadelphia, whose principal city colours are light blue and gold, and to the Sons of Ben, a Union supporters company produced before the club began and who had adopted light blue and gold colours.