First wins

With Tuesday's draw against the Columbus Crew, the Houston Dynamo now have faced every other team in MLS. However, they've only managed to defeat 4 of their 11 rivals. Chivas USA has 4 more teams to beat, while Real Salt Lake has 5 more to go. Chivas: DC-HOU-KC-NY Houston: CHI-CHV-CLB-DC-KC-NE-NY Real: CLB-DC-HOU-NE-NY In the first meetings between RSL and their opponents, Real only defeated the opponent at the first time of asking once. That's a mark of 1-11, the worst in the league's history. It's no surprise that the Los Angeles Galaxy are first at 10-4. Percentage of opponents beaten in first meeting 1 Los Angeles 10 4 .714 2 Chicago 9 5 .643 3 Kansas City 8 6 .571 4 Dallas 7 7 .500 4 D.C. United 7 7 .500 6 San Jose 6 7 .462 7 Tampa Bay 5 6 .455 8 Columbus 6 8 .429 9 Houston 4 7 .364 10 New York 5 9 .357 11 New England 4 10 .286 12 Colorado 3 11 .214 13 Miami 2 9 .182 14 Chivas USA 2 10 .167 15 Real Salt Lake 1 11 .083 Of the teams not beaten by CHV/HOU/RSL, the one with the longest streak so far is CHV-NY, which will go on to at least next year (this is all regular season stuff only). Chivas have yet to beat the Red Bulls in four meetings. They have a long way to go until they set a record, though. In four seasons, the Tampa Bay Mutiny never defeated the Chicago Fire. That's a total of 12 matches. Games until first win vs opponent 1 TB-CHI 12+ 2 CLB-COL 10 3 COL-DC 8 3 MIA-CHI 8 3 NE-CLB 8 6 KC-TB 7 6 MIA-SJ 7 8 CHV-DAL 6 8 CHV-LA 6 8 DC-KC 6 8 MIA-TB 6 8 NY-TB 6 8 SJ-DAL 6 Tampa Bay-Chicago meetings 1 4/4/1998 A 0-2 L 2 5/16/1998 H 1-2 L 3 5/8/1999 H 1-1 D 4 9/17/1999 A 1-1 D 5 4/28/2000 A 1-5 L 6 7/15/2000 A 0-0 D 7 8/2/2000 H 0-1 L 8 8/26/2000 H 3-3 D 9 4/28/2001 H 0-1 L 10 5/5/2001 A 0-2 L 11 7/7/2001 H 2-3 L 12 8/11/2001 A 1-3 L Game 3 was a shootout win, and game 4 a shootout loss.