The Major Arena Soccer League announced its 2021-22 regular season schedule Tuesday.

The schedule will feature 12 teams playing a total of 144 games over a 129-day period. The league will include three conferences – Eastern, Western and Central. Each team will play a 24-game schedule (12 home, 12 away).

The season will kick off Friday, Nov. 26 with the St. Louis Ambush hosting the Kansas City Comets. The following night the same two clubs meet in Kansas City. The regular season will end Sunday, April 3 with playoffs to follow.

The conferences:

Eastern Conference

Baltimore Blast

Florida Tropics

Harrisburg Heat

Utica City FC

Central Conference

Dallas Sidekicks

Kansas City Comets

Milwaukee Wave

St. Louis Ambush

Western Conference

Chihuahua Savage

Ontario Fury

San Diego Sockers

Tacoma Stars

The MASL will announce it playoff format in the coming days, along with a new standings format that will be a points based system, similar to other indoor sports leagues. For the complete 2021-22 schedule, visit: https://www.maslsoccer.com/schedule.

Front Row Soccer editor Michael Lewis has covered 13 World Cups (eight men, five women), seven Olympics and 25 MLS Cups. He has written about New York City FC, New York Cosmos, the New York Red Bulls and both U.S. national teams for Newsday and has penned a soccer history column for the Guardian.com. Lewis, who has been honored by the Press Club of Long Island and National Soccer Coaches Association of America, is the former editor of BigAppleSoccer.com. He has written seven books about the beautiful game and has published ALIVE AND KICKING The incredible but true story of the Rochester Lancers. It is available at Amazon.com.