CHICAGO (Jan. 28, 2025) – U.S. Soccer has finalized the format for the 96-team 2025 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup event – the a hundred and tenth version of the historic nationwide membership championship that celebrates elite newbie and professional soccer in communities throughout the nation. The Open Cup is the one competitors in USA-based workforce sports activities the place amateurs have the prospect to play professionals in direct competitors.
“The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup is a vital connection level for all ranges of soccer in america,” mentioned U.S. Soccer CEO JT Batson forward of the event, first contested in 1913. “U.S. Soccer exists in service to soccer and this historic event permits us to raise up the people who find themselves main the cost to help soccer of their communities. We’re happy to proceed working with and collaborating with all U.S. Soccer members to maximise the event’s influence on the game of soccer in any respect ranges on this nation.”
The sphere of 64 skilled golf equipment consists of 14 from USL League One and 10 sides from MLS NEXT Professional. The event will embrace the 24 groups of the USL Championship – with final 12 months’s league champs Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC, final 12 months’s Open Cup Semifinalists Indy Eleven and 2022 Open Cup Runners-up Sacramento Republic — and 16 groups from Main League Soccer (MLS), together with former Open Cup Champions Chicago Fireplace, D.C. United, FC Dallas, Houston Dynamo, New England Revolution and Orlando Metropolis.
The eight lowest seeded USLC groups enter within the First Spherical together with USL League One and MLS NEXT Professional sides. The 16 higher-seeded USLC golf equipment will enter within the Third Spherical, and the 16 MLS groups enter the event within the Spherical of 32.
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup is U.S. Soccer’s Membership Championship and has topped a champion yearly since 1914 (apart from 2020 and 2021 because of COVID-19). The historic event is carried out on a single-game, knockout foundation and open to all skilled and newbie groups affiliated with U.S. Soccer. It’s the oldest ongoing nationwide soccer competitors in america and the world’s third-longest constantly run nationwide cup event.
2025 Open Cup Format Particulars
The First Spherical of the 2025 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup will encompass 32 video games with 32 newbie golf equipment from the Open Division going up in opposition to 32 skilled groups.
The winners of the First Spherical will play one another in a Second Spherical consisting of 16 video games. The 16 Second Spherical winners will then be matched up in opposition to the 16 highest-ranked skilled groups from the USL Championship within the Third Spherical. USL Championship Groups have been seeded by convention, with the highest eight golf equipment in every convention coming into within the Third Spherical. Third Spherical-winners will sq. off in opposition to the groups of Main League Soccer (MLS).
For a full record of the USL Championship golf equipment collaborating and the schedule for the 2025 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup competitors home windows, please see beneath.
2025 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Schedule
First Spherical March 18-20
Second Spherical April 1-2
Third Spherical April 15-16
Spherical of 32 Could 6-7
Spherical of 16 Could 20-21
Quarterfinals July 8-9
Semifinal Sept. 16-17
Closing Oct. 1
USL Championship 24 groups
(8 * groups enter within the First Spherical and 16 ** enter within the Third Spherical)
Groups marked with + seeded to host in Third Spherical
Birmingham Legion FC*
Charleston Battery** +
Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC ** +
Detroit Metropolis FC** +
El Paso Locomotive*
FC Tulsa*
Hartford Athletic*
Indy Eleven** +
Las Vegas Lights FC** +
Lexington SC*
Loudoun United FC*
Louisville Metropolis FC** +
Miami FC*
Monterey Bay FC*
New Mexico United** +
North Carolina FC**
Oakland Roots SC**
Orange County SC**
Phoenix Rising FC**
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC**
Rhode Island FC**
Sacramento Republic FC** +
San Antonio FC**
Tampa Bay Rowdies**
