Sounders' 8th straight win breaks MLS record in post-shootout era

No one is touching the Seattle Sounders.

The franchise made Major League Soccer history on Saturday, defeating Sporting Kansas City 3-1 to record the club's eighth straight victory and set the record for the longest single-season winning streak in the league since tie-breaking penalty shootouts were abolished after the 1999 season.

Coincidentally, Seattle took more than just three points from Kansas City, as their Saturday opponents were the previous record holders after notching seven straight wins to begin the 2012 season.

The Los Angeles Galaxy technically hold the MLS record for the most consecutive wins in one campaign, stringing together 12 straight in 1996. That run came in a much different MLS era, however, as all games still deadlocked after 90 minutes were resolved with unorthodox penalty shootouts.

Only a half-dozen other clubs had previously touched even six straight wins in a single campaign since the format change.

Both Orlando City SC and the Portland Timbers reached that mark this season, and are joined by the reigning MLS champion Toronto FC, who did so twice during their triumphant 2017 regular season, the New England Revolution during the 2015 season, and D.C. United in 2007. The San Jose Earthquakes, though, were the first to do it in the post-shootout era in 2005.