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Seattle Sounders FC competes in Major League Soccer's Western Conference. Established in November 2007 and beginning play in 2009 as an MLS expansion team, the club is a phoenix franchise that revived the Sounders name from both an original North American Soccer League team (1974-1983) and a second-division predecessor that operated from 1994 to 2008.