2003 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup First Round - COMPLETE Gm 1: Bridgeport Italians (USASA) 1 :: 0 Chesapeake Dragons (PDL) Gm 2: D.S. United (USASA) 1 :: 4 Raleigh CASL Elite (PDL) Gm 3: Milwaukee Bavarians (USASA) 2 :: 1 Des Moines Menace (PDL) Gm 4: Chico Rooks (USASA) 0 :: 1 Fresno Fuego (PDL) Second Round Gm 5: Bridgeport Italians (USASA) at New Hampshire Phantoms (PSL) Gm 6: Carolina Dynamo (PSL) vs. Raleigh CASL Elite (PDL) (site TBD) Gm 7: Bradenton Academics (PDL) at Wilmington Hammerheads (PSL) Gm 8: Long Island Rough Riders (PSL) at Mid-Michigan Bucks (PDL) Gm 9: Reading Rage (PSL) vs. Milwaukee Bavarians (USASA) (site TBD) Gm 10: Fresno Fuego (PDL) vs. Utah Blitzz (PSL) (site TBD) Third Round (will be drawn at conclusion of Second) 16 teams D.C. United MetroStars Atlanta Silverbacks Milwaukee Wave United Minnesota Thunder Seattle Sounders Virginia Beach Mariners El Paso Patriots Pittsburgh Riverhounds Rochester Raging Rhinos + 6 Second Round winners Fourth Round (will be drawn at conclusion of Third) 16 teams Chicago Fire Colorado Rapids Columbus Crew Dallas Burn Kansas City Wizards LA Galaxy New England Revolution San Jose Earthquakes + 8 Third Round winners [/B] Awaiting site/time designations for the second round from USSF...probably sometime this week I'd imagine.
Re: Re: 2nd Round This link says the match was awarded to Carolina Dynamo, not Raleigh. Bummer, if you're a Raleigh fan ... at least it's only a 70 mile drive to Greensboro.
Heh. US Soccer will release full scedule for the second Round as well as the Third Round Draw, by the end of the day today. I'll have it as soon as they do.
Known schedule as of now: 2003 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup First Round - COMPLETE Gm 1: Bridgeport Italians (USASA) 1 :: 0 Chesapeake Dragons (PDL) Gm 2: D.S. United (USASA) 1 :: 4 Raleigh CASL Elite (PDL) Gm 3: Milwaukee Bavarians (USASA) 2 :: 1 Des Moines Menace (PDL) Gm 4: Chico Rooks (USASA) 0 :: 1 Fresno Fuego (PDL) Second Round Gm 5: Bradenton Academics (PDL) at Wilmington Hammerheads (PSL) Wednesday 25 June, 7:30PM ET at the Legion Sports Complex, Wilmington, NC Gm 6: Long Island Rough Riders (PSL) at Mid-Michigan Bucks (PDL) Wednesday 25 June, 7:30PM ET at Hurley Stadium, Berkley, MI Gm 7: Bridgeport Italians (USASA) at New Hampshire Phantoms (PSL) Wednesday 25 June, 7:30PM ET at Singer Park, Manchester, NH Gm 8: Carolina Dynamo (PSL) at Raleigh CASL Elite (PDL) Wednesday 25 June, 7:30PM ET at MacPherson Stadium, Browns Summitt, NC Gm 9: Reading Rage (PSL) at Milwaukee Bavarians (USASA) TBD at Bavarian Soccer Park, Milwaukee, WI Gm 10: Utah Blitzz (PSL) at Fresno Fuego (PDL) Site and Date TBD Third Round (will be drawn 11 June) 16 teams D.C. United MetroStars Atlanta Silverbacks Milwaukee Wave United Minnesota Thunder Seattle Sounders Virginia Beach Mariners El Paso Patriots Pittsburgh Riverhounds Rochester Raging Rhinos + 6 Second Round winners Fourth Round (will be drawn at conclusion of Third) 16 teams Chicago Fire Colorado Rapids Columbus Crew Dallas Burn Kansas City Wizards LA Galaxy New England Revolution San Jose Earthquakes + 8 Third Round winners
USOC Second Round, Third Round Draw [R] 2003 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup First Round - COMPLETE Gm 1: Bridgeport Italians (USASA) 1 :: 0 Chesapeake Dragons (PDL) Gm 2: D.S. United (USASA) 1 :: 4 Raleigh CASL Elite (PDL) Gm 3: Milwaukee Bavarians (USASA) 2 :: 1 Des Moines Menace (PDL) Gm 4: Chico Rooks (USASA) 0 :: 1 Fresno Fuego (PDL) Second Round Gm 5: Bradenton Academics (PDL) at Wilmington Hammerheads (PSL) Wednesday 25 June, 7:30PM ET at the Legion Sports Complex, Wilmington, NC Gm 6: Long Island Rough Riders (PSL) at Mid-Michigan Bucks (PDL) Wednesday 25 June, 7:30PM ET at Hurley Stadium, Berkley, MI Gm 7: Bridgeport Italians (USASA) at New Hampshire Phantoms (PSL) Wednesday 25 June, 7:30PM ET at Singer Park, Manchester, NH Gm 8: Carolina Dynamo (PSL) at Raleigh CASL Elite (PDL) Wednesday 25 June, 7:30PM ET at MacPherson Stadium, Browns Summitt, NC Gm 9: Reading Rage (PSL) at Milwaukee Bavarians (USASA) Tuesday 24 June, 7:30PM CT at Bavarian Soccer Park, Milwaukee, WI Gm 10: Utah Blitzz (PSL) at Fresno Fuego (PDL) Wednesday 25 June, 5:30PM PT at Fresno Pacific University/Steinert Field, Fresno, CA Third Round Gm 11: Seattle Sounders (A-League) at Minnesota Thunder (A-League) Wednesday 16 July, 7:30PM CT at the National Sports Center, Blaine, MN Gm 12: Pittsburgh Riverhounds (A-League) at D.C. United (MLS) Wednesday 16 July, 7:30PM ET at the Maryland Soccerplex, Boyd, MD Gm 13: Game 10 Winner vs. El Paso Patriots (A-League) Wednesday 16 July - TBA Gm 14: Atlanta Silverbacks (A-League) at Game 5 Winner Wednesday 16 July - TBA Gm 15: Virginia Beach Mariners (A-League) vs Game 8 Winner Wednesday 16 July - TBA Gm 16: Game 9 Winner at Milwaukee Wave United (A-League) Wednesday 16 July - TBA at Milwaukee, WI Gm 17: Game 6 Winner vs. MetroStars (MLS) Wednesday 16 July - TBA Gm 18: Game 7 Winner vs. Rochester Raging Rhinos (A-League) Wednesday 16 July - TBA Fourth Round (will be drawn at conclusion of Third) 16 teams Chicago Fire Colorado Rapids Columbus Crew Dallas Burn Kansas City Wizards LA Galaxy New England Revolution San Jose Earthquakes + 8 Third Round winners
Note: They're listing Raleigh as the home team for that game, but the stadium is quite clearly the Dynamo's home ground. That's why the Open Cup page on our site differs from the U.S. Soccer release.
One thing about the "Blitzz" nickname is that in Salt Lake/Utah, most of the team names have a ZZ in them: NBA, Jazz then-WNBA, Starzz American Hockey League, Utah Grizzlies. I know that their baseball team used to be a ZZ, but then they got a new team, the Salt Lake Stingers, breaking with the ZZ tradition. Their indoor soccer team used to have a ZZ also.
East - West Brackets? I was wondering if the East - West setup will be used from round 4 on. I was trying to see how many teams in the final 16 would be in each. Here's what I see, using three-team brackets for potential third-round matchups: Third Round (11): Seattle - Minnesota (12): Pittsburgh - D.C. (13): Utah - Fresno - El Paso (14): Atlanta - Bradenton - Wilmington (15): Virginia Beach - Carolina - Raleigh (16): Reading - Milwaukee Bavarians - Milwaukee Wave (17): Long Island - Mid-Michigan - MetroStars (18): Bridgeport - New Hampshire - Rochester Fourth Round EAST: 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, Chicago, Columbus, Kansas City, New England WEST: 11, 13, Colorado, Dallas, LA, San Jose ?: 14 So I see nine East teams, six West teams, and one that can be for either. If both MLS teams win (12) and (17), then I guess you move KC to the West. So each half of the draw has 5 MLS sides. Then if Atlanta wins (14), put them in the West, and you've got a balanced East-West draw. I've advocated in the past four regions (North, South, East, West), which would have worked great when MLS had three teams in each region. Now I don't see a clean way to put the teams into four regions. (Will have to wait until after round 3 to know for sure.) I at least wish that teams would directly qualify into either the East or West bracket.
Does anybody know anything about the qualifying process? The Spokane Shadow website says that the 4 of the first 5 games were USOC qualifiers. They've been top of their division from the beginning, but they didn't qualify. Didn't, apparently, have the chance to beat anybody to qualify. Doesn't make sense. Please explain.
Well folks Round 2 is only a good day or two away. I will be curious to see who will face the Metro after the Mid-Michigan/Long Island match. To everyone who supporters their respective clubs in Round 2. Good luck to you all.
Every team in the PDL played 4 qualifying matches. The league was divided into 4 regions, with the top team in each region qualifying plus two wild-cards. In the west, Fresno, Orange County, Cascade, and Spokane were tied for first with 3-1 records (9 points). I don't know the tiebreaker procedure, but Fresno won it. Des Moine, Chesapeake, and Bradenton won the other groups. For the wild cards, Mid Michigan with 10 points was the top team that didn't win its group. The second wild card went to one of the 10 remaining teams in the league with 9 points. Again I'm not sure how the tiebreaker worked, but Raleigh CASL Elite ended up getting the nod.
Mateo, check out the links on the right side of this page for all the info on qualifying. http://www.uslsoccer.com/usopencup/Qualifying/index_E.html