Why the US Open Cup?

Oldest tournament in the US. Used to be called the challenge cup meaning any club team can play any other club team if they pay their entrance fee. What is it now 100 dollars it is cheap to enter and very expensive if your in it to the end because of traveling, hotels, paying the players, etc. Winner used to get 100 thousand can cost the club 200 thousand after expenses and don't forget a lot of teams pay their players and coaches even years ago.

It is like the FA cup in England.

Winner was called best club team in the US. If you win get to travel more to play the best foreign teams. Alot of teams who won drop out because it gets even more expensive to play teams from the islands and Mexico etc.

 

Amatuer teams can enter it. We put in our under 19 state cup winning youth team one year. If you play in it your part of US soccer history.

 

Tournament has been played since the early 1900's.

 

NASL were afraid to enter what if they lose and they could have lost.

 

Sporting club Gjoa here in NYC had a team in it in 1911 or 1912 since the club was originally formed

 

div 1 has 12 teams

MN
Port
Sea
Roch
Atl
Tor
Van
Mont
Charl
Rich
PR
VA Beach

Only 8 US based teams

 

Yep. It's just four of them aren't in the continental US, or they're in Canada.

 

How is home field determained because each team only othe only once and what happens if their is a tie at the end of the full ''90

 

If there's a tie at the end of 90 minutes, they go to extra time. Common soccer rule...

 

My point was taken by fellow left-brained souls.

I'd like to think Andy knew the answer to his question, but was nit-picking on the respondent for all too recognizable reasons...

 

Small correction, a team does not have to be professional to qualify for it. It really gives the best ADULT teams in the Country the opportunity to showcase thier stuff. Take the PDL and USASA teams......they are amatuer.

 

They were, my Menace (note: PDL = amatuer) disposed of one of them last week.

 

i for once think it's a shame teams from Canada can't participate in the USOC and it's time to change that

 

Hell no its called the US open cup and one day when we get our teams in copa libertadores and copa sudamericana one of the reprsentative frm the US might be the USOC champ imagine a canadian team repping the US. Hell fvken no!!!!!

 

dunno where things stand as we speak but i heard there were talks a team from Toronto(the Lynx perhaps) will join the MLS and i'm all for it needless to say

 

Wow. All due respect, but that is a terrible suggestion.

 

That has nothing to do with the USOC though.


And I'm against Canadian teams in the USOC, let them start their own cup, they may not have a lot of teams, but I'm sure they got teams that can compete.

 

that has ALL to do with the USOC coz if teams from NA would be allowed to participate in the Libertadores cup(like Ssm99 has been suggested)the MLS champs(which could be Toronto) will be one of them for sure so really they'd represent both Canada and the USA

 

Who says MLS is putting a team in Toronto yet? I'll believe it when I see it.

 

they've mentioned it on FSW Report a couple of months ago

 

Really stupid it is for US teams Canada should start their own open cup for Canadian teams.

 

Exactly. A couple months ago. Since then they've already pulled the plug on Toronto expansion.

Incidentally, two or three years ago it was claimed that Rochester was next in line for MLS expansion. There are two expansion teams this year. Neither of them is in Rochester.

 

Two points:

1. The Yankees were one of the charter franchises in the American League when it was established in 1901. They were the Baltimore Orioles then. In 1903, they moved to New York and were renamed the Highlanders, and in 1921 they were officially renamed the New York Yankees.

2. If we can call it the Liberators Cup, I'm all for American teams participating in it.