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AS Frenzi wins 2023 UPSL title, secures 2024 US Open Cup berth

August 7, 2023 by Liam Wolf

The first UPSL team to qualify for the 2024 US Open Cup is AS Frenzi of Central Florida.

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2023 US Open Cup Qualifying Round 4 Review: Six first-timers, three veteran teams qualify for tournament

December 23, 2022 by Michael Battista

Chicago House supporters who made the trip to Randolph, Mass. to cheer their team on in a 2023 US Open Cup qualifying match against Brockton FC United. Photo: Brad Granofsky

It’s been a long road for the teams competing for a place in the 2023 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup. The final week of fixtures finally arrived as nine teams from the Open Division Local Qualifying punched their ticket over the weekend. This ultimate round of the competition was filled with drama. Five of the […]

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2023 US Open Cup Qualifying Round 3 Review: 18 teams move on to final round

November 22, 2022 by Michael Battista

Brockton FC United (white) battle Unations FC in the Third Round of the Open Division Qualifying tournament for the 2023 US Open Cup. Photo: Mass Soccer

The start of the FIFA World Cup may have paused professional soccer around the world but not everything is on hold. Across the country 36 teams played last weekend looking to inch one step closer to the 108th US Open Cup tournament.

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US Open Cup qualifying history: Major League Soccer (Division 1)

January 20, 2017 by Josh Hakala

Michael Videira of the Chicago Fire battles for the ball against the Colorado Rapids in Wednesday's US Open Cup qualifying match. Photo: Bob Hunt

Major League Soccer has been the United States Soccer Federation’s (USSF) Division I league since its inception in 1996 and has taken part in the US Open Cup since that inaugural season. However, the way the teams have been chosen over the years had changed considerably over the years.

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2016 U.S. Open Cup Qualifying Bracket: Open Division

2016 U.S. Open Cup Open Division Qualifying *Home team listed on top TheCup.us Essentials

Not up for the Cup: Why so few amateur Cascadian clubs enter the US Open Cup

July 16, 2015 by Devon Rowcliffe

In one of the country’s key soccer regions, Washington and Oregon, despairingly few amateur clubs participate in the Open Cup. Why is this?

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U.S. Open Cup History

Clint Dempsey of the Seattle Sounders FC is shown a red card during a 2015 US Open Cup match against the Portland Timbers.

A history of violence against referees in US Open Cup

Unfortunately, in the long history of the US Open Cup, this was not the first time that there have been more then a few incidents where games were halted due to referee abuse.

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  • San Francisco Bay Seals, the ‘amateur’ pro team that reached 1997 US Open Cup Semifinals
  • Vasco De Gama’s journey from Connecticut to 1978 US Open Cup Final as Pele’s opening act at Giants Stadium
  • 1938-1939 National Challenge Cup: The first time the US Open Cup was invite-only
  • American soccer’s greatest modern underdog story: Rochester Raging Rhinos win 1999 US Open Cup

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