D.C. United is kicking off its 2020 Major League Soccer season with new athletes and partnerships.

This Saturday, D.C. United faces the Colorado Rapids in the team’s third season at Audi Field. For the first time, D.C.-area residents can watch the match on the local ABC 7 station. Earlier this month, D.C. entered into a one-year partnership with Sinclair Broadcasting Group, after breaking off its flopped streaming deal with FloSports last October. The subscription-based service charged viewers $5.99 or $8.99 to watch United matches, and initially promised behind-the-scenes footage and pre-season access, but technical difficulties and expensive subscription rates made the partnership unpopular.

Now, D.C. United returns to Sinclair, the company that televised D.C. United games from 2016 to 2018. Twenty-seven of the season’s 34 games will be broadcast on WJLA. The remaining seven will be broadcast on national television.

The new partnership comes in the franchise’s 25th year, just after losing the playoffs in the first round last season. (D.C. United hasn’t won a playoff game since 2015.) The team is facing departures and injuries of key players. In August 2019, the team’s star forward and United’s highest-paid player, Wayne Rooney, announced he and his family would be returning to their home in England after spending only one full season with the team (but not before his wife, Coleen Rooney, fed us some dramatic Instagram drama straight out of Gossip Girl: D.C. Edition, if such a thing existed.)

The team is also without the second half of the goal-making machine that became known as Lucharoo: Luciano Acosta, who announced he would leave the team in October. Together, Rooney and Acosta scored 22 of the team’s 37 season goals in the second half of the 2018 season. And just this month, Paul Arriola, a strong center, tore his ACL in a pre-season game, likely sidelining him for the rest of the year.

Despite missing a few high-scoring names from its starting lineup, the team starts the season with three new additions: left winger Edison Flores, already called a player to watch; and midfielders Julian Gressel and Yamil Asad. Asad returns to the team for the second time: He previously played for United in 2018, when he scored the first-ever goal at Audi Field.

The team also has a redesigned home jersey, and a sponsorship with casino-entertainment company Caesar’s, that heralds new programming and exclusive events at Audi Field.

The match starts at 1 p.m. on Saturday, and tickets are still available, starting at $29. Viewers can also watch with other fans at one of D.C. United’s bar and restaurant partners who will be broadcasting the game.