# 2022–23 Major Arena Soccer League season

The 2022–23 Major Arena Soccer League season was the fifteenth season for the league. The regular season started on November 25, 2022, and ended on April 2, 2023. Each team played a 24-game schedule. 45 anniversary of professional, indoor soccer in North America

## Changes from 2021–22
### Teams
#### Returning

* Mesquite Outlaws
* Monterrey Flash

#### Rebranding

* Ontario Fury to Empire Strykers

#### On hiatus

* Rochester Lancers

### Change in season format

* On October 6, 2022, the MASL announced that teams will be divided into two conferences, Eastern and Western.
* On October 20, 2022, the MASL announced that the top five teams of each conference advance to the playoffs, with the fourth and fifth team of each conference playing a play-in game to advance to the quarterfinals. Similar to last season, the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals rounds will be a 2 game home and home series; if tied after 2 games, a 15 minute overtime period then, if necessary, a golden goal overtime period will follow the end of regulation of Game 2.

## Standings

(Bold) Division Winner

### Eastern Conference

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | Milwaukee Wave | 24 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 154 | 145 | +9 | 45 |
| 2 | Baltimore Blast | 24 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 141 | 101 | +40 | 41 |
| 3 | Florida Tropics SC | 24 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 141 | 134 | +7 | 41 |
| 4 | Utica City FC | 24 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 132 | 153 | −21 | 36 |
| 5 | Kansas City Comets | 24 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 136 | 129 | +7 | 35 |
| 6 | St. Louis Ambush | 24 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 115 | 132 | −17 | 25 |
| 7 | Harrisburg Heat | 24 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 17 | 89 | 161 | −72 | 15 |

### Western Conference

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | OTW | OTL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | San Diego Sockers | 24 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 160 | 99 | +61 | 62 |
| 2 | Chihuahua Savage | 24 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 179 | 124 | +55 | 49 |
| 3 | Monterrey Flash | 24 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 148 | 118 | +30 | 38 |
| 4 | Tacoma Stars | 24 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 155 | 139 | +16 | 37 |
| 5 | Mesquite Outlaws | 24 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 124 | 147 | −23 | 37 |
| 6 | Empire Strykers | 24 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 138 | 132 | +6 | 37 |
| 7 | Dallas Sidekicks | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 116 | 214 | −98 | 6 |
* 1 2 Mesquite is ahead of Empire on head-to-head points: Empire–Mesquite 3–4, Mesquite–Empire 7–2

## 2023 Ron Newman Cup

| Play-in | Play-in | Play-in | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Finals | Finals | Finals | Finals |
| | | | E1 | Milwaukee Wave | 11 | 3 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| E4 | Utica City FC | 7* | E4 | Utica City FC | 8 | 4 | 1 | | | | | | | | | |
| E5 | Kansas City Comets | 6 | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | E1 | Milwaukee Wave | 4 | 3 | | | | | |
| | | | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | Eastern Conference | E2 | Baltimore Blast | 5* | 5 | | | | | |
| | | | E2 | Baltimore Blast | 4 | 1 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | E3 | Florida Tropics SC | 3 | 14 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | E2 | Baltimore Blast | 6 | 6 |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | W2 | Chihuahua Savage | 7* | 10 |
| | | | W1 | San Diego Sockers | 7 | 8 | | | | | | | | | | |
| W4 | Tacoma Stars | 6 | W5 | Mesquite Outlaws | 1 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | |
| W5 | Mesquite Outlaws | 9 | Western Conference | Western Conference | Western Conference | Western Conference | Western Conference | W1 | San Diego Sockers | 5 | 6 | 0 | | | | |
| | | | Western Conference | Western Conference | Western Conference | Western Conference | Western Conference | W2 | Chihuahua Savage | 6 | 2 | 1* | | | | |
| | | | W2 | Chihuahua Savage | 8 | 7 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | W3 | Monterrey Flash | 4 | 10 | 2 | | | | | | | | | |