Major League Soccer clubs efforted to withdraw from the 2024 U.S. Open Cup, threatening to leave the oldest soccer competition in the United States without its most visible participants.

MLS owners ratified a plan to send reserve teams to the 2024 Open Cup. U.S. Soccer had to respond and implicitly answer a provocative question, the “ultimate question,” as two experienced ...

USL CEO Paul McDonough expressed disappointment at the U.S. Soccer Federation's handling of a dispute involving MLS and the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, which is having a ripple effect on the USL.

What MLS clubs plan to do when the Open Cup format gets released will say a whole lot MLS clubs opting out or fielding second-tier sides are not a good look in support of the nation’s oldest ...

Multiple scenarios currently on the table during negotiations While it has been seven weeks since MLS made their initial proposal on skipping the U.S. Open Cup, there is still not yet a resolution to ...

2024 U.S. Open Cup format announced: Lionel Messi's Inter Miami not among eight MLS teams picked to compete The new format is a compromise after MLS sought to deemphasize the tournament due to ...

MLS will not send its first teams to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup this season, instead opting to enter teams from MLS Next Pro, the league's 2-year-old development league, to participate in the ...

Sacramento now seems far away from an MLS expansion team, but also 90 minutes away from a truer pinnacle.

What is the U.S. Open Cup? First played in 1914, The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup is the oldest ongoing competition in American soccer. In its current form, the tournament pits about 100 professional ...

The US Open Cup and MLS is having a rocky relationship as the league and players union have criticized the USSF-run competition.