Major League Soccer's newest team will be one of its oldest. 

MLS commissioner Don Garber said Wednesday the San Jose Earthquakes will return to the league as an expansion team for the 2008 season. 

The Earthquakes will be MLS's 14th team and the third in California alongside Chivas USA and the Los Angeles Galaxy. They will become the seventh team in the Western Conference. 

San Jose's ownership group is led by Lew Wolff and John Fisher, who also own the Oakland Athletics.
    
The team still needs approval from the San Jose City Council for plans to build a soccer-specific stadium near the city's international airport. The stadium is slated to open in 2010 and will seat between 18,000 and 20,000.

Stadium financing in the Silicon Valley city has been a stumbling block in the past. The Earthquakes were an MLS powerhouse, capturing two MLS Cup titles before relocating to Houston in 2005 after plans for a new stadium in San Jose fell through. 

Houston went on to win the MLS Cup in 2006. 

Should the stadium plans go through, it will be the first outdoor stadium built in nearly 80 years in San Jose.

San Jose was one of Major League Soccer's original teams when the league began in 1995. 

They were known as the "Clash" for their first five seasons in the league before changing to the "Earthquake" moniker, which was first used in the 1970s and 80s by the San Jose (later "Golden Bay") Earthquakes of the North American Soccer League. 

Wolff said the Earthquakes will play their home games in temporary stadiums for the first two seasons and that the team's logo — a soccer ball with rays of sunlight around it — will stay the same.