Charlotte is moving closer to securing an MLS expansion club, but work remains before the group led by Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper will secure the league’s 30th franchise.



Despite multiple reports claiming that the league had awarded a team to Tepper and Charlotte, MLS commissioner Don Garber told reporters following the third and final MLS Board of Governors meeting of 2019 in Brooklyn on Thursday that Charlotte must still work through stadium issues before an agreement can be finalized.



Tepper and Panthers president Tom Glick, who was president of New York City FC in 2015, attended the Board of Governors meeting and were seen exchanging happy handshakes with Garber and other MLS execs just outside the meeting room a couple of hours into proceedings.



The league did approve for its expansion committee to enter into what Garber expects “to be final negotiations with (Tepper) to have Charlotte be our 30th team, but no formal approval...