Major League Soccer has had discussions with the International Football Association Board, global football’s rule making body, about trialing the use of a stopped clock in matches. It was even briefly used in MLS itself from its 1996 founding until the end of the 1999 season, and is still used in US college soccer. Paul Grafer, vice-president of competition for MLS, told the Guardian that reintroducing a stopped clock is “one thing that we often talk about” when discussing the future of the game.
