Five games into the 2025 MLS season, LAFC haven't conceded a single goal. Saturday's 0-0 draw against Austin FC pushed that run to 450 minutes — a new league record, surpassing the 427-minute mark the Vancouver Whitecaps set back in 2012 and held for over a decade.
Hugo Lloris nearly saw it slip away in stoppage time. Myrto Uzuni's effort was first flagged offside, then the French keeper — all 39 years of him — got down to deny what looked like a certain equalizer. That's the difference between a footnote and a record.
A 39-year-old redefining what MLS goalkeeping looks like
Lloris is now the first goalkeeper in MLS history to start a season with five consecutive shutouts. Let that land for a second. He retired from international football in January 2023 as France's most-capped player ever — 145 appearances, 121 as captain — and arrived in Los Angeles with a point to prove or simply nothing left to prove, depending on how you look at it.
Either way, he's been the difference. Not just reflexes, but positioning, communication, the kind of authority that settles an entire defensive unit. Marc Dos Santos has built something genuinely difficult to break down, and Lloris is the last line of a system that hasn't cracked at home or away.
For context on how rare this is, the previous entries on this list read: 2007 New York Red Bulls (420 minutes), 2025 St. Louis CITY SC (367 minutes), 2009 Seattle Sounders (349 minutes). LAFC didn't just edge the record — they cleared it with room to spare.
What this means for LAFC's season — and the odds around it
A team that doesn't concede is hard to beat. That sounds obvious, but MLS is a league where defensive consistency is genuinely rare, and five clean sheets to open a season is the kind of form that changes how you price a team for the Western Conference title. LAFC's early-season odds look increasingly undercooked.
The next test comes Sunday, April 5, when Orlando City visit Banc of California Stadium. Orlando aren't without attacking threat, so this is where the record either grows legs or gets exposed. At 450 minutes and counting, LAFC have already made their statement.
