<P> In the other major professional sports leagues of North America it is virtually impossible that a team could lose all its games, for the simple reason that there are many more games in the regular season than in football or lacrosse . </P> <P> The Major League Soccer schedule has consisted of between twenty - six and thirty - four games . No team in Major League Soccer has ever come close to losing all its games: the most losses in a MLS season is 24 from 32 games by the Kansas City Wizards in 1999, the year when the league used shootouts to decide all tied games . Shootouts were abandoned the following season . In 2013, D.C. United set new MLS records in futility . They won a league low three games, and lost a record 24 games, tying the aforementioned Wizards . </P> <P> Since the 1967--68 season, the National Basketball Association's regular season schedule has been 82 games long (except 1998--99, 50 games and 2011--12, 66 games due to lockouts). It has been as few as 48 games long, but eventually expanded to an 82 - game schedule . </P> <P> The 2011--12 Charlotte Bobcats hold the record for the lowest winning percentage of any team in an NBA season, winning only 7 out of 66 games in a lockout - shortened season, for a winning percentage of . 106 . This broke the record held by the 1972--73 Philadelphia 76ers, who had a winning percentage of . 110 in a full 82 - game season . The 1947--48 Providence Steamrollers won an all - time NBA low of six games out of 48 (. 125 winning percentage). </P>

Nfl teams to go winless in a season