TAMPA, Fla. – The United Soccer League at this time confirmed that 47 USL groups will take part within the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, together with all 36 USL males’s skilled groups and the certified 11 USL males’s pre-professional golf equipment. This follows U.S. Soccer’s announcement of the finalized format for the 109th version of the match.
“The USL has supported the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup for practically 30 years, and we’re proud to be a part of it once more in 2024,” stated USL President Paul McDonough. “We applaud all of the USL golf equipment who’ve determined to take part on this 12 months’s U.S. Open Cup, regardless of being handed the choice to say no. We recognize and share the followers’ ardour for our nation’s most historic and genuine competitors, and we sit up for watching the drama unfold over the course of the match.”
The U.S. Open Cup is U.S. Soccer’s membership championship and has topped a nationwide champion yearly since 1914 (except 2020 and 2021 on account of COVID-19). The historic match is performed on a single-game, knockout foundation and open to all skilled and beginner groups affiliated with U.S. Soccer. It’s the oldest ongoing nationwide soccer competitors in the US and the world’s third-longest repeatedly run nationwide cup match.
The First Spherical of the 2024 U.S. Open Cup will include 32 video games with 32 beginner golf equipment from the Open Division assembly 32 skilled groups from Division III.
USL League Two, a part of the Open Division, can be represented by 11 golf equipment who certified by their common season efficiency within the 2023 season. USL League One, the preeminent Division III league within the nation, will see all 12 golf equipment take part as a part of the 32 skilled groups within the First Spherical.
The 32 winners of the First Spherical can be paired up and face one another within the Second Spherical.
The 16 Second Spherical winners will then be matched up within the Third Spherical with 16 groups from the USL Championship, the highest tier of the USL pyramid. These 16 USL Championship groups can be decided based mostly on sporting benefit by the USL Championship Gamers’ Protect standings.
The eight Third Spherical winners will advance to the Spherical of 32, the place they may sq. off towards the remaining eight USL Championship groups, together with defending league title-holders Phoenix Rising FC and Gamers’ Protect winners Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC, and eight groups from Main League Soccer.
For a full listing of the USL Championship golf equipment taking part and the schedule for the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup competitors home windows, please see beneath.
2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup ScheduleFirst Spherical: Tuesday, March 19 – Thursday, March 21Second Spherical: Tuesday, April 2 – Wednesday, April 3Third Spherical: Tuesday, April 16 – Wednesday, April 17Round of 32: Tuesday, Might 7 – Wednesday, Might 8Round of 16: Tuesday, Might 21 – Wednesday, Might 22Quarterfinal: Tuesday, July 9 – Wednesday, July 10Semifinal: Tuesday, Aug. 27 – Wednesday, Aug. 28Final: Wednesday, Sept. 25
USL Championship (All golf equipment. League champion (Phoenix Rising FC) and subsequent seven finest groups from2023 Gamers’ Protect total standings enter within the Spherical of 32)
