Against all odds, the Philadelphia Union are the 2025 MLS Supporters' Shield champions.

The league's best team during the regular season were hardly a favorite to make the Audi MLS Cup Playoffs, let alone claim the Shield, in their first year under head coach Bradley Carnell.

And yet the Union did just that, completing the feat with Saturday's 1-0 home win over New York City FC courtesy of Mikael Uhre 's lone goal. A raucous Subaru Park crowd celebrated the historic moment a year after Philadelphia missed the postseason altogether.

"It's sweet," Carnell, who replaced legendary head coach Jim Curtin in January, told MLS Season Pass. "These guys invested in the very beginning to get rewarded today and I'm so happy for them.

"What they've done, what they've committed, what they've

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