San Diego Legion host Rugby United New York at Torero Stadium. The home team emerged 24-20 victors in what would turn out to be the last MLR game of the 2020 season for both sides, as the season would be postponed for 30 days on March 12, 2020, and then cancelled on March 19, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This was the final scheduled game of Round 5 of the 2020 Season and as a result, this was the final Major League Rugby game of the 2020 season, which was cancelled a few weeks later.

Round 1 of the 2020 Major League Rugby season saw a repeat of the 2019 final, with the San Diego Legion at home, facing the now back-to-back champion Seattle Seawolves. While the match-up was the same, the result was very different and there would be no last minute heroics from the Seawolves.

A 33-24 bonus point win for the Legion saw them claim their revenge over their rivals, not allowing Seattle to pick up either bonus point.

The 2019 Major League Rugby Final took place on June 16th, 2019 at Torero Stadium, where the #1 seeded San Diego Legion had home advantage to face the visiting Seattle Seawolves, the reigning MLR Champions and #2 seed. These two sides had faced each other in a semifinal game in 2018, with Seattle the victors on the way to the first MLR Championship.

It was a back and forth game that San Diego looked to have secured, leading 20-14 with 10 minutes to go before Seattle showed real fight with a 71st minute try taking the score to 20-19, but missing the conversion! San Diego fly-half Joe Pietersen slotted a drop goal in the 78th minute to extend the Legion’s lead to 23-19 lead and surely securing the Championship. The Seawolves had next to no time and needed a try to claim the shield, and this is exactly what they got on the last play of the game, with Brad Tucker barrelling over to give the Seawolves a 23-24 lead.
Brock Staller nailed the conversion to put the icing on the cake, with the final score 23-26 to Seattle, who claimed back-to-back championships in 2018 & 2019. At the conclusion of the 2022 season, Seattle Seawolves remain the only team to successfully defend their title.

The first playoff game of the 2019 Major League Rugby season saw the 4th seeded Rugby United New York travel to California to take on the first seeded San Diego Legion for their first ever playoff game, at Torero Stadium.

The game went down to the wire, with Joe Pietersen nailing a conversion on a 78th minute JP du Plessis try being the only thing to separate the teams at the final whistle.

A comfortable Legion win over the Gold at Torero Stadium meant that San Diego clinch the top spot in the 2019 MLR season and secure home-field advantage in the playoffs. The loss means that NOLA Gold miss out on a playoff spot by a single point.