St. Louis, a city with a rich soccer history dating back more than a century, will finally get its Major League Soccer team this year. But to watch it, and the league’s other 28 teams, armchair supporters will have to make the transition from television to streaming, whether they like it or not.

Here’s what is happening with MLS in 2023.

What’s new? >> For the seventh straight season, MLS is expanding. St. Louis City SC will be the league’s 29th team — a total that may grow in the next few months — and play in a new stadium downtown, Citypark.

St. Louis had long been a target for expansion; the city had a pioneering professional soccer league in the early 1900s and NASL, indoor and minor-league teams more recently. But previous efforts all failed, torpedoed either by inadequate financing or, in 2017, a public referendum in which voters rejected a plan to finance a stadium for an expansion franchise.

Now, though, the team that MLS and St. Louis fans have long coveted is here.

The new team includes Roman Burki, a 32-year-old Swiss goalkeeper with seven years at Borussia Dortmund under his belt, and Klauss, a Brazilian striker. But if recent MLS history is any indication (not you, Atlanta United), St. Louis City is likely to suffer typical expansion woes as it tries to build a winner.

What will Week 1 bring? >> Thirteen games will be played today, starting with New York City FC’s visit to Nashville, Tennessee.

The big game, the L.A. Galaxy against defending champion LAFC at the Rose Bowl — which was expected to draw a crowd of more than 70,000 — was canceled due to heavy rains in Southern California.

The Earthquakes will open at Atlanta United, which led the league in attendance again last season and expects another big crowd inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium today.

The Philadelphia Union, which lost last season’s MLS Cup championship game in an excruciating manner, will kick off against Columbus at home.

How can I watch? >> MLS is banking on its younger fan base’s familiarity with technology (and its aversion to traditional TV) as it moves the bulk of its games to Apple TV as part of a 10-year, $2.5 billion broadcast contract.

For hard-core MLS fans, that will mean a deluge of content: every game, including the playoffs and the Leagues Cup tournament with the Mexican league; English and Spanish broadcasts; a Red Zone-style whip-around show hitting the highlights of games as they happen; and no blackouts for out-of-market games.

The cost is $79 a year with an Apple TV subscription and $99 without, but several games each week will be broadcast free throughout the season.

As for traditional television, ESPN is out of the mix, as are all local broadcasts around the country. Fox and FS1 will broadcast roughly one game a week.

Who is going to win MLS Cup? >> The list of favorites has to start with LAFC, which won the Supporter’s Shield with the best regular-season record last season and then added the MLS Cup title, becoming the first team to pull off that double since Toronto FC in 2017. Welsh star Gareth Bale, whose tenure was known for limited minutes and stunning goals, has retired, and the team’s top scorer, Cristian Arango, has moved to the Mexican league, so expect more of the load to fall on club legend Carlos Vela, now 33.

Philadelphia had the same number of points as LAFC last season and a much better goal difference (plus-46 to plus-28), but it lost the Shield because it had fewer wins and then the final in the most agonizing way possible. The Union are well equipped to find their way back. Andre Blake is the reigning goalkeeper of the year, Jakob Glesnes was last season’s defender of the year and Daniel Gazdag will again provide the goals.