Ahead of the inaugural week of the 2019 season, MLSSoccer.com has ranked the Seattle Sounders No. 5 in its weekly Power Rankings.
Seattle finished the 2018 season as the No. 2 team in the West before bowing out on penalty kicks to the Portland Timbers in the Western Conference Semifinals. The Sounders begin 2019 as the third-highest team in the West, behind only Sporting Kansas City (No. 3) and LAFC (No. 4).
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The Sounders kick off the regular season against expansion side FC Cincinnati at CenturyLink Field on Saturday, March 2 (7 p.m. PT; FS1 | TICKETS).