Sports · MLS points recordNashville MLS points record: 77 points after a 2-0 win at CincinnatiWritten November 8, 2026 at 2:50 PM UTCWatchTranscript0:07Nashville SC lifted the MLS regular season points record to seventy-seven.0:11Those seventy-seven points put Nashville three above Inter Miami's previous record.0:15A two and all win at Cincinnati sealed the achievement.0:19And Nashville enters the playoffs with the top seed and hosting priority all the way0:22through the final.0:23Nashville now faces the remaining test of turning that regular season dominance into0:27an MLS Cup championship.0:29A sell-out crowd of twenty-five, five hundred thirteen watched the record, setting0:33result at TQL Stadium on November7, but Cincinnati kept the match scoreless through0:37the first hour.0:38Sam Surridge then scored twice to settle Nashville's final regular season game.0:42In the sixty one-minute Andy N, Jar sent Surridge through the defense.0:46The striker finished into the bottom left corner, with N, Jar, and Patrick Yazbek0:51credited with the assists.0:52Surridge broke away again in the eighty-six minute and scored his second.0:56Yazbek and Josh Bauer supplied that goal.0:58Surge finished with twenty one league goals and two assists.1:01He has now scored at least twenty and two consecutive regular seasons.1:05His two finishes in Cincinnati supplied the final three points of Nashville's record1:09campaign.1:10N, Jar's assist took him to ten for the season, matching his career high.1:14Yazbek's two assists lifted him to a career best six.1:17Bauer finished with two, also equaling his career high.1:20Surridge said, It's going to go down in history.1:22Nashville's place at the top of the points list is now secured across a1:26completed34game season.1:28Nashville70 ,7 moves ahead of Inter-Miami's seventy, four from two thousand and1:32twenty-four.1:33New England Revolution reached seventy, three in two thousand and twenty-one.1:36LAFC collected seventy, two in two thousand and nineteen, and the New York Red Bulls1:40earned seventy, one in two thousand and eighteen.1:42Nashville now leads all four.1:44Miami's record season brought twenty, two wins, four losses, and eight draws.1:48New England had twenty-two wins, five losses, and seven draws.1:51LAFC recorded twenty, one wins, four losses, and nine draws.1:55The Red Bulls finished with twenty, two wins, seven losses, and five draws.1:59Each of those campaigns also lasted thirty-four matches.2:02Nashville's twenty, three wins set the league single season mark in the post,2:05shootout era.2:06Those victories delivered sixty-nine points.2:08Eight draws supplied the rest.2:10With just three defeats, Nashville averaged two point two six points per minute2:13etch.2:14Brian Schwake made five saves in Cincinnati, stopping every shot on target.2:18Nashville kept the shutout despite losing Jison Palacios to a lower body injury.2:22Dakmar made his first start since September9 at Toronto, partnering Maxwell Wolsey2:26in Central Defense.2:27Nashville finished with17 team clean sheets, tying the MLS single season record.2:31Swake personally recorded16 shutouts, matching Tony Miola's goalkeeper mark2:35from2000.2:36Across the season, Nashville conceded25 goals, the lowest total in MLS in2026 .2:42That defense backed an attack that scored a club, record seventy one league goals.2:47Nashville won a league, record fifteen home games, and a club record eight away.2:51After twenty one matches, it already had forty-nine points.2:54The best start through that stage in league history.2:56Nashville won its first supporters shield by a record thirteen point margin.3:00The shield rewards the overall regular season leader.3:03The club's record-setting campaign also earned a place in the two thousand and3:06twenty-seven CONCACAF Champions Cup.3:08B.3:09J.3:09Calagand delivered the record in his second full season as head coach.3:13Captain Hani Mukhtar contributed17 goals and eight assists.3:16Winger Christiana Espinosa added four goals and fifteen assists, supporting Surridge3:21in Nashville's three player-designated player core.3:24Cincinnati could face that same attack again immediately.3:26It finished with forty six points from twelve wins, twelve losses and ten draws.3:30As the Eastern Conference's ninth seed, Cincinnati must face eighth-seeded Orlando3:35City in the wild card match.3:36The winner meets Nashville.3:38Nashville will open its best of three first round series at Geodis Park.3:43Its top seed gives it hosting priority throughout the playoffs, but the MLS Cup3:47title will be decided by the postseason results.3:49The opening game is scheduled for November20, two against the Orlando Cincinnati3:54winner.3:54Kickoff time hasn't been set.3:56If Nashville reaches the December18 MLS Cup final, it will host that match too.Read the articleStory timelineHeyDex
